By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated June 29, 2023
In a highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the “[r]ace-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional,” and both are in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
This ruling by the high court, which now consists of a conservative supermajority, “is the culmination of a decades-long effort to end the consideration of race in