Yale Sued by U.S. for Favoring Black, Hispanic Applicants (1)

Yale University was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims the Ivy League school illegally discriminates against White and Asian-American applicants in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Hispanic ones.

The lawsuit appears to be a part of the Trump administration’s campaign against programs in higher education as well as corporate America meant to correct historic discrimination against the Black community. The Labor Department recently sent letters to Microsoft Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co. asking how their efforts to double their ranks of Black leaders comply with laws limiting the consideration of race in employment.

The lawsuit, ...