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indictments he s facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once a star of the tv company black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what s next in his career and role and climate change activism? i m simone sanders-townsend, and i have something to. so it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the polyp college admissions process. now americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain, with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity in education. others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers forced civil rights or lcr fall to complete against harvard university. one of the respondents on the supreme court s admissions case is on behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they re asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a syste ....
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Supreme court decision on affirmative action came out and said that he wanted federal agencies to investigate all of the unfair practices that stand in the way of equal opportunity for students of color. and legacy preferences and donor preferences have got to be on the top of that list. so, we are quite optimistic that the federal department of education is going to take this quite seriously, and act on it expeditiously. mr. you alluded to this, because this complaint specifically speaks to a harvard, but as you just said, state admissions policies are used at many other universities across the country. so what do you hope the broader effect will be here? well, we certainly hope that after the department of education looks at harvard, it will look at other institutions that except federal funds and use these unfair and undeserved preferential treatment as well. the trend line is clear, the ....
Old coaching legend from miami, leading them to their first ever final 4 17 years ago. he did the same thing at george mason, leading them to their first ever final four, and at that time they saw their out of state admissions increased by 40% fred. so he knows all about how big this moment is. listen it s a very special time for the university of miami. we are great academic institution, top 50 school in the country and now everybody s talking basketball, so it s great for both the academics goes more students will be hitting our website and for basketball. we ll have more fans next year at our games. nothing quite like the final four. fred drawing in fans who don t even necessarily watch basketball during the regular season. so much hype. this is the first time since 1970 that there are three teams making their first ever final four appearance will see who can ....