As a Hispanic American, I rejected getting into Harvard Law school by affirmative action

For me, last month’s Supreme Court argument in the Harvard affirmative-action case was personal. Growing up poor in Los Angeles, as the son of Colombian immigrants, I faced my share of racist taunts and stereotyping. In high school, I recall my White French teacher asking where I wanted to go to college. I said the Naval Academy. In front of all the other students she blurted, “You can’t go THERE!”   And you know what? She was…

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Travis Tritt likens concert vaccination requirements to 'discrimination'

celebrity-news” target=”_blank”>Travis Tritt< requirements. As the infectious-disease pandemic rages on, cases are again spiking and the deadly delta variant is becoming more prominent, leading many businesses and events to elect to require vaccinations for their customers and participants. The trend has made its way into the realm of music” target=”_blank”>music<. Promoter AEG has opted to…

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Duke University pro-Israel group denied recognition by student government, admin overrules

The us-regions administration will provide support to a pro-world-regions student organization originally denied official recognition by the student government. In a statement released by Duke education President Vincent E. Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth Nov. 24, the two said the university has found ways for the group to receive financial and program support without formal…

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Oklahoma National Guard won't enforce Biden's vaccine mandate

The new leader of the us-regions military said none of its members will currently be required to become vaccinated for COVID-19, a step that contradicts with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for the military.  Unless federally mobilized, the Guardsmen will not have to become vaccinated for COVID-19, according to an order issued Thursday by new…

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Top police brass running for higher office in 2021

About a half dozen crime and high-ranking officers of different racial backgrounds are running for elections” target=”_blank”>higher office< in Minneapolis.  Those candidates include Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who leads some 5,000 officers on the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He announced in June that he would be running in the Republican gubernatorial primary, telling…

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US worried hundreds of federally funded scientists could be compromised by China

U.S. officials on Thursday shared concerns that world-regions may have compromised hundreds of federally funded scientists dispersed at education” target=”_blank”>colleges< Lauer gave the example of one such U.S. researcher who, unbeknownst to U.S. officials, “had a laboratory in China and was basically being funded by the Chinese government to do the exact same work that we…

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