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Affirmative action debate revived

Hosted by Warren Olney Aug. 10, 2017 National
Is the Trump Administration on the hunt for "reverse discrimination" in college admissions — the exclusion of whites on behalf of blacks and Latinos? We hear about the politics of affirmative action — after decades of new laws and legal precedents.

Photo by KevinLamarque/Reuters

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Luke Vander Ploeg, Evan George, Devan Schwartz

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