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So What If They Did? Thoughts On Affirmative Action

Savala Nolan
ZORA
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4 min readJul 3, 2023

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Here is the letter I shared with the 5,000+ students, alumni, donors, and colleagues who are connected to The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, where I work as Executive Director, following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action:

Dear friends,

I would prefer, if I’m honest, to rest, to meditate, to lift Black people in…

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Savala Nolan
ZORA
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