Supreme Court ruled Thursday that two race-based college admissions policies are unconstitutional, UCSB may become a reference point for universities around the country. ![]() The legal principle behind a more restrained Supreme Court term They came to see faces that look like them – faces on heads with braids and Afros, with noticeable tattoos and familiar athletic wear – explain how they enrolled, navigated the mostly white affluent space that is UCSB, and found a family away from home to create memories that will travel through life. They spent the day listening to speakers, watching performances, and munching on catered grilled tri-tip, barbecue chicken, baked beans, potato salad, salad, freshly made garlic bread, and rice and peppers. The assistant director for diversity initiatives, Marcus Mathis, and a student helper from one of the school’s fraternities pile used paper plates, plastic utensils, and waste into huge trash bags.Īlmost 200 mostly Black students from six high schools in Southern California’s Woodland Hills, some 80 miles southeast, have just left UCSB’s Loma Pelona Center. Just after lunch on a Thursday afternoon in late April, a chilly breeze and overcast sky have mostly blocked the sun from smiling on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. And I understood immediately why journalists here persist.So yes, Acre does exist – in the beauty of a flash rainstorm that threatened to knock over my canoe, the delight of the juiciest of watermelons sold along the riverbank, the power of memories tended by elders and shared in quiet voices, and the humanity of the Ashaninka villagers in refusing to hate the loggers who decimated their land.It’s one small portrait in Acre’s continuing battle to be truly seen. ![]() I was welcomed by strangers into homes and hearts alike. Over the next three days, I was led through a world still somewhat insulated from Western society. I stepped into the thick, sticky air and found myself on very real ground. No story is worth more than a journalist’s life, which means many go untold.I flew into Cruzeiro do Sul, a day’s journey from the Ashaninka village, at 10 past midnight, the only time flights arrive. ![]() I was given clear instructions: Don’t tell strangers you’re a reporter. Crime and trafficking networks dominate borders with Peru and Colombia. An Ashaninka Indigenous village in Acre won a historic environmental reparations deal, and the people were willing to tell me their story. You can read about it in today’s Daily.As one local reporter told me, doing journalism in the Amazon is “physically, psychologically, and financially draining.” Distances are long, with mosquito planes and riverboats the only options through dense jungles. While primarily fuel for online memes, the quirky conspiracy theory also points to the invisibility shrouding remote parts of the Amazon.I jumped at the chance to go myself for the Monitor’s global series on reparations. Does Acre exist? It’s a running joke about Brazil’s westernmost Amazonian state, about which the rest of the country – and the world – knows little.
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