In 1965, thousands marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on a journey for justice. All across the South, college students participated in the 54-mile...
If you’ve never been to N.Y.C., you might be surprised by the amount of diversity and vibrant cultural exchanges you can find. But if you look past the bright lights of Times Square and actually see who’s working, who’s unemployed, who’s in the executive seats, who’s living where, and who’s getting a good education, you might be even more surprised by what you learn. Even here, at the center of the world, the need for reform and programs that can begin to fix some of these inequalities are necessary. So just imagine how we need them in the rest of the country. One such program, affirmative action at colleges and universities, has for years tried to balance the issue of unequal access to higher learning. Now with one court case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court may very well decide the fate of affirmative action at schools everywhere. Oral arguments begin this week, and we young folks must be there to let the court and justices know what people in our ...
