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Conservative activist uses Civil War-era law to challenge US corporate diversity

Conservative activist uses Civil War-era law to challenge US corporate diversity

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The anti-affirmative action activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies is trying to use a Civil War-era law designed to protect formerly enslaved Black people from racial bias to dismantle American corporate diversity programs. In a trio of lawsuits filed since August, Edward Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights …

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