COLUMN: Fewer race-based scholarships and a new culture of fear follow the end of affirmative action

COLUMN: Fewer race-based scholarships and a new culture of fear follow the end of affirmative action

While applying to colleges last year, Hamza Parker became a casualty of one of the more tangible aspects of the conservative Supreme Court’s landmark decision to end affirmative action in college admissions: sudden cutbacks in race-based scholarships.Parker’s college advisor, Atnre Alleyne, had steered him toward a host of campuses that once provided generous scholarships for Black students, including the College of Wooster in Ohio. Without one,…