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In this Aug. 25, 2020, file photo, the 'Fearless Girl' bronze sculpture, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, looks towards the New York Stock Exchange from its roadside perch in New York. Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be. Boards of directors at publicly traded U.S. companies are much more white and much less diverse than the overall population, often starkly so. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Nasdaq’s diversity rule for corporate boards faces legal challenge

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Harvard affirmative action challengers want Supreme Court to go far beyond academia

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 8, 2022, celebrating the confirmation of Jackson as the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Supreme Court’s first Black female justice expected to weigh in on affirmative action

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Leola One Feather, left, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, observes as John Willis photographs Native American artifacts on July 19, 2022, at the Founders Museum in Barre, Massachusetts. The private museum, which is housed in the town library, is working to repatriate as many as 200 items believed to have been taken from Native Americans massacred by U.S. soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. Willis is photographing the items for documentation, ahead of their expected return to the tribe. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

A runner jogs along the shore of Lake Michigan Wednesday, July 20, 2022, as downtown Chicago skyline is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Where young adults moved to based on race and ethnicity

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This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth, according to NASA. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP) **FILE**

Latest space images confirm Enlightenment scholar’s theory about galaxies, Harvard prof says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Soldiers with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team are seen here before being deployed to Germany from Hunter Army Airfield, Wednesday March 2, 2022 in Savannah, Ga. The division sent 3,800 troops as reinforcements for various NATO allies in Eastern Europe. (Stephen B. Morton /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Group pushes military veterans to join journalism ranks

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in New York. Lanier, who says she's descended from slaves portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard, can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday June 23, 2022. The state's Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The images are considered some of the earliest showing enslaved people in the United States. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Court: Harvard can be sued for distress over slave photos

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Classroom, desks, chalkboard. (Photo credit: miya227 via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Elite schools’ admissions policies pit minorities against one another

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Roberta Wolff, a descendant of Tony, Cuba and Darby Vassall who were enslaved by Harvard benefactors in the institution's first decades, poses on the front porch of her family home, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in Bellingham, Mass. In Harvard's pledge to atone for its ties to slavery, it identified dozens of people who were enslaved by the university's first leaders and faculty members. Hundreds of years later, their living descendants are estimated to number in the thousands, including some who lived and worked in the Boston area without knowing their family connection to the Ivy League school. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard report brings joy, grief for descendants of enslaved

By Collin Binkley and Michael Melia - Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge Jackson says she would recuse herself from Harvard admissions case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An activist holds a surgical mask during a protest of a visit by first lady Jill Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, June 6, 2021. Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Red districts top COVID-19 death charts

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

College Admission Discrimination Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Time to stop racial discrimination in college admissions

By Hans von Spakovsky

A gate opens to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) **FILE**

Federal lawsuit claims Harvard ignored sexual harassment of female students

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U.S Supreme Court building is seen at dusk in Washington on Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court takes on affirmative action (again)

By Scott Douglas Gerber

Harvard University professor Charles Lieber leaves federal court, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, in Boston. Lieber is charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program. His trial is the latest bellwether in the U.S. Justice Department's controversial effort to crackdown on economic espionage by China. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Harvard professor found guilty of hiding ties to China

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In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, file photo, a student walks in front of the Old Main building on the Penn State campus in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Young Republicans foresee ‘second civil war’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Indian chief’s descendant wants Harvard to return tomahawk

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Harvard punishes professor who had ties to Jeffrey Epstein

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Judge dismisses lawsuit over slave portraits at Harvard

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