People demonstrate June 29 outside the Supreme Court in Washington after the high court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, saying race cannot be a factor.
Stories this photo appears in:
![Tease photo](https://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/07/06/Affirmative_action_decision_r100x80.jpg?144a9619b7b2d55e12d8b619b3e5adb91a2095fa)
Faith and fate of affirmative action
It’s a different colorblindness than the one envisioned in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina comes in a year of 60th anniversaries in American civil rights history.