Civil Rights Groups Strike Back After Affirmative Action Ban With Lawsuit Challenging Legacy Admissions At Harvard

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 3, 2023

On Monday, the Boston nonprofit, Lawyers for Civil Rights, filed a lawsuit “challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University.”

The civil rights group is petitioning the federal government days after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action on the basis of race. The group is asking for legacy admissions to also be declared illegal and for Harvard to abstain from using it during

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