An Easthampton family has decorated a giant 12-foot skeleton they own with a colorful flower bandana, a Pride flag, and a rainbow tutu in celebration of Pride month.
Harvard — and any other college in the United States — cannot give racial preferences in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday morning.
The court ruled 6-2 and 6-3 in a pair of affirmative action cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Studentsfor Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina — that considering race for admission is a violation of the 14th Amendment and therefore illegal. Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself in the Harvard case because her daughter attends the school and because she is a former member of the school's Board of Overseers.
