Williams: Is School Discipline Discriminatory?
10/3: ACRU Policy Board member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams examines whether race plays a role in disciplinary reactions in schools.
Williams: Racism Isn't What Liberals Think
9/19: ACRU Policy Board member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams deconstructs the faulty and emotional attitudes toward racism in America.
Williams: Discrimination Isn't Omnipresent in America
4/4: ACRU Policy Board member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E Williams discusses the reality of discrimination in America.
Quotas by Any Other Name
The Supreme Court validates reverse discrimination and the media runs with it.
Purification of America
There is a historical precedent for the purification of America.
Sloppy Language and Thinking
Let's examine the term "racial segregation."
Unappreciated Tax on the Poor
Racial discrimination cannot explain the absence of supermarkets in black communities.
Misleading and Using Blacks
The issue for black parents is not whether their sons and daughters should be admitted to an elite college. The issue is whether their sons and daughters should be admitted to a college where they would not be admitted if they were white.
In Defense of Judge Southwick: An Open Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee
With the Democrats in the Senate stalling on the consideration and confirmation of 19 nominees to the district court level – thus creating a “judicial emergency – and esp. with the malicious attempts to derail the confirmation of Judge Leslie Southwick to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the American Civil Rights Union has sent a letter to each member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and other important Senate leaders. Here is that letter. (Document is in PDF format.)
Press Release: ACRU Applauds Another Step Towards a Colorblind Society
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled on an affirmative action case involving a Seattle school district. The ACRU supports the challenge to the school district’s race-based student assignment plan. In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the school district argued its decision to use race is entitled to deference, a presumption of correctness before the law.
ACRU Senior Fellow and constitutional law expert Horace Cooper said that, “The Supreme Court today barred school assignment plans that take account of students’ race. It is a shame that more than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education was decided by […]