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Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional. The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5%...

MIT's Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

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USA TODAY

The percentage of Asian American students in the class of 2028 increased compared to prior years.

MIT class of 2028 to have fewer Black, Latino students after affirmative action ruling

Latin Times

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has reported a significant decrease in the percentage of Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander students in its incoming class of 2028, the institution's first undergraduate class admitted since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action. For the class of 2028,...

Latinos admitted to MIT drop sharply in first class since Supreme Court's affirmative action ban

The Independent

 The first class of incoming students at elite university MIT since last year’s Supreme Court ruling outlawing race-conscious affirmative action programs has significantly fewer Black and Hispanic students, and more Asian ones, according to newly released data on the class of 2028. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Black enrollment declined from 15 to 5 percent compared with last year, while Hispanic and Latino enrollment fell from 16 to 11 percent. Asian student enrollment, meanwhile, grew from 40 to 47 percent this year.The numbers, the first released from an elite US university since the ruling, could give indications of how the...

Proportion of Black and Hispanic students at elite university falls by half after Supreme Court ruling

A prestigious US university has recorded a sharp fall in admissions from minorities following a Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said 16% of its new intake identify as from a minority - down 10 percentage points in one year. Black enrolment fell from 15% to 5%.

Top US college's diversity slumps after affirmative action ban

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Herbie J Pilato

[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes in this article are from the author's interview with those mentioned.]. Elizabeth Montgomery was one of the most popular actors from the 1950s to her unfortunate passing from cancer in 1995. Before, during, and after her benchmark Emmy-nominated role as twitch-witch Samantha Stephens on TV's Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972), Montgomery made over 200 additional appearances in other weekly shows, TV-movies, and feature films.

'Bewitched' Star Elizabeth Montgomery Received Death Threats for Protesting the Vietnam War

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Vice President Kamala Harris played an instrumental role in helping an undocumented Mexican migrant become the nation's first licensed undocumented lawyer in 2012.

Kamala Harris played key role in helping man become 1st illegal immigrant with law license: report

Chalkbeat

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.A new coalition is on high alert for violations of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that guarantees children the right to a free public education regardless of their immigration status.Known as Education for All, the campaign is working to counteract anti-immigrant rhetoric and conservative policy proposals seeking to limit the educational rights of undocumented children, which are protected by the 1982 Supreme Court decision Plyler v. Doe.The campaign, which launched in May, comes as The Heritage Foundation, a think tank with ties to...

Undocumented kids have a right to attend public schools. This coalition wants to keep it that way.

Lawful permanent residents are becoming naturalized United States citizens at a pace unseen since 2013 and 2014, potentially reshaping the electorate ahead of the election.

Immigrants becoming citizens at breakneck speed as election approaches: report

The federal government is processing citizenship requests at the fastest rate in a decade, addressing a backlog that accumulated during the Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the close to 3.3 million immigrants who have become citizens during the Biden administration, processing speed sits at under five months, on par with 2013 and 2014.

Immigrants are becoming U.S. citizens at the fastest average rate in a decade

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Newspapers across the country have historically made issue of the race of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris since her first days in public office.
                Newspaper stories now more than 20 years old have referenced Harris as an Indian-American and as a Black woman. More recently, they have described the vice president also as "Asian American."
                Race has become an issue because former President Donald Trump said...

Kamala Harris has been identified as Indian, Black and Asian American by newspapers

(The Center Square) – Critics of Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' proposal to control food and pharmaceutical inflation by enacting government-enforced price controls at grocery stores and drug stores say it would backfire, leading to supply shortages and increased inflation.
                Harris on Friday unveiled her plan to go after what she called “price gouging” at grocery stores and to cap the costs of certain prescription medications.
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Critics: VP Harris' price control proposal will cause Americans 'to suffer'

The US Sun

ONLY half of recent high school graduates are planning to attend a four-year college or university, contrary to popular belief, according to new research. A survey of 1,000 recent public high school graduates (ages 18 and 19) and 1,000 parents of public high school students found that just 22% felt “very prepared” for life after […]

US high school students are ditching 4-year college plans & want to take five ‘less traditional’ routes after graduation

Axios

Former President Trump's recent false attack questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity comes as the number of people in the U.S. identifying as multiracial is surging — particularly in California. Why it matters: Trump's comments illuminate how some Americans consistently misunderstand the complexities of people from multiple racial...

California's multiracial population is soaring

Georgia State

A new video shared by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveals that a shocking number of illegal immigrants and non-citizens in Georgia are allegedly registered to vote ahead of the 2024 election. On Wednesday, The Oversight Project shared a video obtained by Muckraker.com, tweeting, “Footage obtained by @realmuckraker shows...

Video: 14% of non-citizens spoken to are registered to vote in crucial swing state: Report

WashingtonExaminer

EXCLUSIVE — A top medical fellowship for women will stop excluding white applicants after a complaint accused the program of being racially discriminatory in light of the Supreme Court outlawing affirmative action last year. Do No Harm, a nonprofit organization that serves as a watchdog in the healthcare industry, filed a lawsuit in June on […]

Female medical program won’t exclude white students after discrimination complaint

WEKU

Zyn pouches are the latest nicotine craze in the world of cigarette substitutes. They're touted as a panacea for addiction to smoking and vaping. Philip Morris boasts selling more than 130 million containers in the first quarter of this year. But health experts and government officials are looking to crackdown on the sale of these pouches.

All about the Zyn-sation of nicotine pouches

Canada’s two largest freight rail networks could come to a halt Thursday as thousands of workers are threatening to go on strike. Industry groups say it will have a devastating impact on businesses across North America

Canada faces a massive impending railway strike

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

The satirical newspaper is now available in physical form for the first time since it stopped printing in 2013 because of a drop in paper ad sales.

The satirical newspaper 'The Onion' is back in print — really

MIT says the percentage of Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander students in its incoming freshman class has plummeted, tying it to 2023’s Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action.

The diversity within MIT's enrollment has plummeted

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