Trump admin pushed to probe CUNY ‘Black Male’ program for blocking out other students

Source: New York Post

A legal advocacy group wants the Trump administration to step in to probe CUNY‘s Black Male Initiative over claims it discriminates against women and white students. The Equal Protection Project claims the CUNY program violates federal civil rights laws by giving preference to minority male students while shutting out others. “It’s not a difficult case – CUNY explicitly is recruiting based on race and ethnicity and preferring certain racial and ethnic groups over others,” said William Jacobson, president and founder of the group, which filed a complaint with the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon.