Education

Punxsutawney Phil must have seen his shadow last year at the Oscars and decided institutional racism was going to be around for another year. For the second year in a row no people of color were nominated for the top honors in America’s entertainment industry. In a country that is 37 percent people of color,

hen Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being “poster children for brochures,” black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support.

Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands.

As a chemical engineering major who aced high school science courses and was a regional leader in the National Society of Black Engineers, becoming a physics tutor at the University of Texas at Austin came easily to Claiborne Jones.

But students never seemed to seek his help.

“People I was tutoring would blow

In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scaliahesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than

The Supreme Court for the second time heard arguments on how race is used in admissions decisions by the University of Texas at Austin, with a majority of justices expressing doubts that the university’s plan is constitutional. A ban on affirmative action could lead to fewer minority admissions, as it has in some states that