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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.

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.

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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.