UPDATE 6/26: Jeremiah Owyang just emailed me about a post on feministing.com on Jeremy Bearer-Friend's thoughts below. I was in Los Angeles yesterday sitting in a hotel bearing Paris Hilton's family name (getting ready to deliver an e-advocacy workshop for the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network) when I received a call from Rex Huppke at theContinue reading "Unequal Justice for Paris Hilton"
A Call for Paper Proposals on the Socioeconomic Impact of Proposition 209
Proposition 209, California's anti-affirmative action initiative, went into effect in 1997. Much of the research on Proposition 209 in the decade since has focused on the impact of the initiative in higher education admissions. There has been comparatively little research examining the impact of the initiative on public employment and contracting, and even less thatContinue reading "A Call for Paper Proposals on the Socioeconomic Impact of Proposition 209"
Court of Appeal Rules That Federal Law Trumps Proposition 209
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights announced last week that a California Court of Appeal ruled April 18 that a San Francisco ordinance requiring outreach to minority- and women-owned businesses in City contracting may be mandated by federal equal protection, notwithstanding Proposition 209, the State's anti-affirmative action initiative. The decision reverses a key element ofContinue reading "Court of Appeal Rules That Federal Law Trumps Proposition 209"