April 28, 2006

Civil-Rights Group Challenges CUNY's Efforts to Help Black Men

By PETER SCHMIDT

A New York civil-rights group filed a federal complaint last week challenging as discriminatory an effort by the City University of New York to help black male students, as well as several programs at CUNY's Medgar Evers College that the university system could end up replicating elsewhere.

In its complaint, the New York Civil Rights Coalition asked the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights to halt the Medgar Evers programs and to block the CUNY system from following

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