{"id":5094,"date":"2003-12-11T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2021-06-12T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T02:55:40","slug":"affirmative-action-battle-moves-to-lansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/11\/affirmative-action-battle-moves-to-lansing\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Action Battle Moves to Lansing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published December  3, 2003<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/news\/mich\/affirm3_20031203.htm\">Affirmative action battle moves to Lansing<\/a><br \/>\nBY DAWSON BELL<br \/>\nFREE PRESS STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LANSING &#8212; The fractious debate over affirmative action in Michigan is to resume Thursday when a state elections panel considers proposed language for a petition to ban race-based hiring and college admissions decisions.<\/p>\n<p>A group called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is offering the proposal,  which would reduce the use of affirmative action. The group was formed after the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decisions in Juneregarding University of Michigan admissions policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published December 3, 2003 Affirmative action battle moves to Lansing BY DAWSON BELL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER LANSING &#8212; The fractious debate over affirmative action in Michigan is to resume Thursday when a state&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1ka","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7205,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/7205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}