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Podcast: Slate History
Episode: Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids
Description: On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… almost affirmative. We don’t yet know what the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action is going to do, tangibly, to college admissions — or how long those impacts will last. But, based on past experiments, we have a decent idea. And many advocates say the implications here are urgent and dire.But affirmative action might not have been the great equalizing force that a lot of people believe it was. Bertrand Cooper, freelance journalist and policy resea...