Equal Protection Project Tag

Discriminatory George Floyd Scholarship at North Central University Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2024 25 Comments

Only black students are eligible to apply for the 4-year full tuition scholarship. Our Civil Rights Complaint has received extenstive media coverage, including in the NY Post, NBC News, USA Today, Fox News, The Washington Examiner, and the College Fix....

DoE Civil Rights Office Opens Investigation Into UW-Madison ‘BIPOC’ Fellowship After Complaint By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 25, 2024 6 Comments

"OCR will investigate the following issue: Whether the University excluded applicants based on race, color and national origin from its Creando Comunidad: Community Engaged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Fellows fellowship program (Fellowship Program) in a manner inconsistent with the requirements of Title VI."...

Google’s Gemini AI Is Just The Tip Of The ‘Discrimination By Algorithm’ Bias Problem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2024 17 Comments

Our Op-Ed in The NY Post: "Discrimination by algorithm has the potential to manipulate every major detail of our lives in order to obtain group results and group quotas. These algorithms are designed to take the scourge of DEI and secretly bring it into every...

“You can endow whatever scholarship you want, except you can’t endow a scholarship that discriminates on the basis of race”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 29, 2024 18 Comments

My appearance on Chicago's Morning Answer regarding the Equal Protection Project's challenge to racially discriminatory scholarships: "The sheer number and volume indicates to us, at least, that there is a serious problem at Western Illinois University because in all the dozens of these we filed,...

Sixteen Discriminatory Scholarships at Western Illinois U. Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 27, 2024 10 Comments

"The number and scope of these discriminatory programs reflects a systemic discrimination problem at WIU" ...

Missouri Attorney General Orders Three School Districts to Cease and Desist Discriminatory Practices

Posted by James Nault on February 26, 2024 11 Comments

AG Bailey: “As the chief legal officer for the State of Missouri, I am prepared to exercise my office’s full authority under the law, including the Missouri Human Rights Act, to ensure no Missouri school district discriminates against its students or staff."...

Iowa Universities To Review “Diversity Scholarships” After “Civil Complaints … Filed Against Other Universities” by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2024 10 Comments

We are pleased to see that our actions are helping change the narrative on campuses nationwide, even those where we have not filed a complaint....

Kansas State Univ “Scholarship has eliminated the preference based on race, color, or national origin” After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2024 17 Comments

"Applicants may be of any ethnic group."...

Lawyer For Black-Women-Only Fearless Fund Contest Admits “Whites Only” Would Be Okay If 11th Circuit Rules Their Way

Posted by James Nault on February 02, 2024 66 Comments

Defendant Fearless Fund's attorney admits during oral argument in 11th Circuit that allowing Black-Women-Only grant contracting means Whites-Only also lawful....

Southern Illinois U Med School Scholarship Discriminating Against Non-LGBTQI+ White and Asian Students Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2024 10 Comments

Short version: White and Asian (non-Pacific Islander) students cannot apply for the Meares scholarship unless they are "LGBTQI+". So your straight White or Asian student whose "gender identity" aligns with their biological sex cannot apply....

U. Wisconsin-Madison Scholarship Program Open Only To “BIPOC” Students Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2024 8 Comments

"The discriminatory BIPOC Fellows program reflects how core university and constitutional principles of equality have been damaged by DEI.”...

“Something’s very broken in (NY) state government where there’s open discrimination going on and nobody says anything”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2024 13 Comments

My radio appearance about our lawsuit for Asian parents challenging discrimination in the NY STEP Act: "Why did no one say anything? Why did nobody at the Department of Education say, hey, should we really be doing this? ...

Asian Parents Sue NY State Over Discriminatory Student Programs, With Help From Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2024 13 Comments

Lawsuit seeks to end discrimination affecting over 10,000 secondary school students taking programs at 56 colleges and universities in NY State: "The Equal Protection Project is proud to team up with Pacific Legal to challenge discriminatory standards in the STEP program so that students do...

NYU “Permanently Discontinued” Discriminatory Whites-Only “Anti-Racist” Parent Program After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2024 11 Comments

Another EPP win. Program was DEI white-shaming to train white parents to be better allies: "The University stated that on or about August 22, 2023, it ...

SUNY Buffalo Law School will “no longer grant a preference based on race or color” after Equal Protection Project civil rights complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2024 16 Comments

Another EPP win: "On November 21, 2023, the University informed OCR that the University had revised the Program’s eligibility criteria so that they no longer grant a preference based on race or color and that the University had revised its webpages about the Program to...

Who are we?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2023 13 Comments

As 2023 comes to an end, I thought it made sense to explain to the readers just who we are and what we do, since there have been so many changes in the last couple of years.

Equal Protection Project Racks Up Numerous Wins In First Nine Months Since Launch

Posted by Jack Sorock on December 03, 2023 6 Comments

Of the 20 racially discriminatory programs and practices we’ve challenged over the past nine months, we've already notched nine wins ending discriminatory conduct and three other impacts altering but not yet ending discriminatory programming....

Scholarships Discriminating Against Asians and Whites At U. Colorado Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2023 9 Comments

CU-Denver and CU-Boulder's "voluntary and ongoing participation in and active promotion of the McNair Scholarship program, which awards funding, research and scholarship opportunities to students based on their race and skin color, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...

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