Mark Wilson/Getty Images A judge has recently struck down a conservative legal group’s lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s affirmative action policies. A win for advocates of such policies, this lawsuit underscores the decades-long fight for equitable and reparational policies in the college admissions process. But it also represents a much larger issue at hand. While affirmative action policies provide a bandaid on inequity in the school sys

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Lawrence Carter was a disabled Vietnam war veteran accused of drug possession. While awaiting trial, he was infected with COVID-19 in August of 2020 and succumbed to the virus before the trial was able to take place. Mr. Carter was 76 years old and suffered from severe diabetes, increasing his risk of contracting and suffering a fatal outcome from COVID-19. Moreover, his facility was not equipped to handle his pre-existing medical conditions, result