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Breaking: Supreme Court Shoots Down Affirmative Action.

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Breaking: Supreme Court Shoots Down Affirmative Action.

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World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

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Supreme Court live updates: Justices restrict consideration of race in college admissions

www.washingtonpost.com

The decisions in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina overturn 45 years of court precedent.

Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.

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  Samuel L. Jackson dubbed him “Uncle Clarence.”
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    This may be apocryphal, but rumor was that Jackson said he based his performance in Django on Clarence.
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      I never connected the two, but it makes so much sense. The hair is spot-on.

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