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New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman wrote in a Thursday email deploring the U.S. Supreme Court’s ugly rulings on race-conscious college admissions: This is an attack on equality for Black and brown people in America. Affirmative action is a way to make sure that we have an equitable shot at higher education to pursue advancement. And let's not forget that we ALL benefit from diversity in our schools.

The ruling included two cases. The case concerning the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was 6-3 along ideological lines; in the Harvard case, the vote was 6-2, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recusing. The decision reversed decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices. The podcast is produced by Elena Moore and

On Thursday the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions in college admissions, with the majority ruling in two cases – one at the University of North Carolina, the other at Harvard – that the practice violates the Equal Protection clause. The UNC case split 6-3; the Harvard case was split 6-2 as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself. The ruling ends race-related affirmative

Nearly six years after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking months of protests in the Missouri city and across the US, a county prosecutor announced Thursday that his office will not charge the officer after reinvestigating the case.

The white officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot Brown, 18, on Aug. 9, 2014, while attempting to detain the Black