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With Jacksonville hiring former Eagles head coach Doug Pederson on Thursday, all six head coaching vacancies have been filled with white candidates. Unless the Texans, Dolphins, or Saints hire a black head coach, the league will head into the 2022 season with a single black head coach, Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh. It would be a public relations nightmare following former Miami head coach Brian Flores' lawsuit alleging racism in team hiring practices -- allegations teams have denied. “The key word is frustration, and this has been mounting frustration over the years,” Fritz Pollard Alliance executive director and former Cardinals general...

Senate Democrats have introduced a bill that would require colleges to report the race and socioeconomic status of students admitted as "legacies" — i.e., children of alumni — or through early-decision programs. Colleges that fail to comply would be stripped of eligibility for federal financial aid. The bill's supporters maintain that legacy and early-decision admissions disproportionately favor white and wealthy applicants, amounting to "white affirmative action." (Low-income students are less likely to apply for early-decision admission, since early-decision programs commit a student to one school and thereby eliminate a student's ability to play schools against one another for more favorable...