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| Affirmative action: US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions | Affirmative action: US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions |
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| Protesters outside the Supreme Court when the case was heard last October | |
| The US Supreme Court has overturned the practice of considering an applicant's race during university admissions. | The US Supreme Court has overturned the practice of considering an applicant's race during university admissions. |
| The landmark ruling upends decades-old US policies on so-called affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination. | |
| It is one of the most contentious issues in US education. | It is one of the most contentious issues in US education. |
| Affirmative action first made its way into policy in the 1960s, and has been defended as a measure to increase diversity. | Affirmative action first made its way into policy in the 1960s, and has been defended as a measure to increase diversity. |
| The cases heard by the justices concerned admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC). | |
| In the ruling, the court said: "Such [race-based] admission programs must comply with strict scrutiny, may never use race as a stereotype or negative, and must - at some point, end." | |
| Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that while the UNC and Harvard admissions programmes were "well intentioned", they "fail each of these criteria". | |
| "Harvard's admissions process rests on the pernicious stereotype that 'a black student can usually bring something that a white person cannot offer,'" his opinion said. | |
| The opinion, the Supreme Court noted, does not mean that universities are prohibited from considering an applicant's "discussion of how race affects his or her life". | |
| The White House is reportedly reviewing Thursday's seismic decision. | |
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