{"id":1993129,"date":"2023-08-07T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-only-residency-program-earns-university-of-nebraska-federal-civil-rights-complaint\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:26:57","slug":"black-only-residency-program-earns-university-of-nebraska-federal-civil-rights-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-only-residency-program-earns-university-of-nebraska-federal-civil-rights-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Nebraska faces civil rights complaint over exclusive black residency program."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-only-residency-program-earns-university-of-nebraska-federal-civil-rights-complaint%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The University of Nebraska Faces Federal Civil Rights Complaint Over Residency Program for Black Filmmakers<\/h2>\n<p>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has \u200bbeen hit with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-naacp-and-ut-students-file-federal-civil-rights-complaint-over-racist-school-song-eyes-of-texas\/\" title=\"Texas NAACP And UT Students File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Over \u2018Racist\u2019 School Song \u2018Eyes Of Texas\u2019\">federal civil rights complaint<\/a> for its sponsorship of \u2062a \u2063residency\u2062 program specifically for \u200bblack filmmakers. The complaint, filed by the nonprofit legal organization Equal Protection Project, alleges that the Black Public Media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-facilitated-gruesome-taxpayer-funded-experiments-with-aborted-fetuses\/\" title=\"University Facilitated Gruesome, Taxpayer-Funded Experiments With Aborted Fetuses\">residency program<\/a> violates the\u2063 Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment \u2062and Title VI of the \u200bCivil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging Discrimination in\u2064 Education<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;UNL&#8217;s creation, ongoing sponsorship\u2062 and active\u200b promotion of a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-only-residency-program-earns-university-of-nebraska-federal-civil-rights-complaint\/\" title=\"University of Nebraska faces civil rights complaint over exclusive black residency program.\">program\u200d giving admissions preference based<\/a>\u2064 on race \u2062and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-mccaughey-the-lefts-lies-about-the-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Betsy McCaughey: The Left's Lies About the Supreme Court\">skin color violates<\/a> the Equal Protection Clause\u200d of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as Title VI of the\u200b Civil Rights \u2064Act of 1964 (&#8216;Title VI&#8217;) and \u200dits implementing\u200d regulations,&#8221; the complaint stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Black Public Media\u200d residency program, according to the University of Nebraska website, is a \u200bcollaboration with \u200bthe New York-based nonprofit group Black Public Media. Launched in \u2063the summer of 2022, the program aims to provide opportunities for black filmmakers, creative \u200dtechnologists, and artists who require access to emerging technology, studio\u2064 time, \u200bor work space.<\/p>\n<p>William Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project and a professor at Cornell Law \u200dSchool, emphasized that the university&#8217;s partnership with Black Public\u2064 Media does not excuse racial discrimination. He stated that universities cannot shift the responsibility of discrimination, especially when it occurs\u2063 on \u2064campus.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While the law has been clear for decades that racial discrimination in education is unlawful, after the Supreme Court&#8217;s \u200dHarvard \u200ddecision, there can be \u200cno doubt that universities\u2063 may not even take race into account to\u200c advance diversity objectives,&#8221; Jacobson said. &#8220;Yet that is\u2062 exactly what the U. Nebraska-Lincoln program does; it\u2064 reserves a spot on program teams for\u200c black students in order to foster diversity, creating a disadvantage and lessening of\u200b opportunities for others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jacobson further criticized the program for \u200brequiring student teams to organize themselves around race, with one\u2063 team \u2064member\u2064 being required to \u2062be\u2063 black. He described this practice as offensive and troubling, as it forces students \u200bto choose their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-41\/\" title=\"This Week in Campus Insanity, Vol. 41\">peers based<\/a> on race.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to the University of Nebraska\u2062 for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Nebraska faces a federal civil rights complaint for supporting a residency program exclusively for black filmmakers. The nonprofit legal organization, Equal Protection Project, filed the complaint, claiming that the Black Public Media residency program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln violates anti-discrimination laws by favoring applicants based on race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}