The Supreme Court revisits affirmative action

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Affirmative action is a program conscious of students’ race when individuals apply for college. Race is considered in the application process, because by ­– recognizing it — this program is acknowledging the racial barriers students may or may not have faced in their educational endeavors. Beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s, universities started to implement affirmative action into their admission decisions.

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