Monday Notes: America's Family Secret, Affirmative Action, Juvenile's Tiny Desk
With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores
To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?
With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores
To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?
By
Video of the day: Juvenile Tiny Desk Concert
TL'DR
- NPR Music celebrated Black Music Month with various brand new Tiny Desk concerts.
- Mannie Fresh: "'Back that Azz up the greatest love song Ever."
Ancestral Connections: Political elite’s ties to slavery revealed
TL'DR
- More than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors, and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin.”
More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery
Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.
Ancestral Connections: Political elite’s ties to slavery revealed - New York Amsterdam News
Recent research conducted by Reuters has shed light on the genealogies of America’s political elite, revealing that a significant portion of members of Congress, living presidents, Supreme Court justices, and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people.
NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Stacy M. Brown
Twitter Limits the Number of Posts Users Can Read
TL'DR
- To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk tweeted.
The social-media platform began limiting how many posts users can read, an unusual move that came as owner Elon Musk says he is fighting companies trying to use its data for developing artificial intelligence programs.
Twitter Limits Number of Posts Users Can Read, Prompting Disruptions for Some
The social-media platform began limiting how many posts users can read, an unusual move that came as owner Elon Musk says he is fighting companies trying to use its data for developing artificial intelligence programs.
Tim Higgins
Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
The change on Saturday came as thousands of users complained about getting an error message that they had “exceeded” their “rate limit.”
By
What it Means: Biden's new student debt relief plan after Supreme Court Ruling
TL'DR
- Hours after the U.S.Supreme Court struck down the White House's student debt relief program Friday, President Biden announced that he's taking a pair of steps to provide student debt relief for millions of borrowers under the Higher Education Act, which allows the secretary of education to "compromise, waive, or release loans under certain circumstances."
- As Biden cautioned, the process will take time: It could take a year to complete, overlapping with the 2024 election, Kevin Carey, vice president of education policy at the New America think tank, told Semafor.
- But education policy experts said that the route Biden is taking neutralizes the threat of a lawsuit for the time being. "You can't sue to stop a rule until the rule itself has been finalized," Carey said. "So what this effectively does is put the inevitable process of having another lawsuit past the national election."
What it means: Biden’s new student debt relief plan after Supreme Court ruling | Semafor
Biden said the new plan is “going to take longer, but in my view it’s the best path that remains.”
https://www.semafor.com/author/jd-capelouto, https://www.semafor.com/author/joseph-zeballos-roig
Paul Graham: How to do great work
How to Do Great Work
Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health.
Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa, backing Ghana’s Berry Health
Berry Health wants to democratize access to healthcare in Africa, starting out with mental health, sexual health and dermatology.
Tage Kene-Okafor
NBA Free Agency Updates
TL'DR
- Dame Lillard requests a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers
- Fred VanVleet signing with the Rockets
- Kyrie Irving remaining with the Mavs
- Bruce Brown to the Pacers
Damian Lillard and the Consequences of Loyalty
Damian Lillard and the Consequences of Loyalty
Dame gave everything he had to the Portland Trail Blazers for a decade-plus. But that doesn’t mean the franchise will do everything to fulfill his trade request.
Seerat Sohi
Ten Takeaways From the Start of 2023 NBA Free Agency
Kyrie Irving’s new contract might as well be a middle finger to common sense. Plus, my thoughts on Fred VanVleet and Bruce Brown getting paid, the Bulls and Pistons continuing to depress, and the Warriors living to fight another day.
Michael Pina
