The anti-affirmative action activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies is trying to use a Civil War-era law designed to protect formerly enslaved Black people from racial bias to dismantle American corporate diversity programs.
to help give Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority groups greater career opportunities.
His strategy faces its first major test on Tuesday, when U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash in Atlanta hears arguments in Blum'schallenging venture capital firm Fearless Fund's grant program designed to promote businesses owned by Black women. Sarah Hinger, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, said Blum's lawsuits pose a threat to efforts to remove barriers to opportunity for people of all races in private sector jobs.
It also provides grants to businesses owned by Black women - a category that in 2022 received less than 1% of all venture capital funding, according to the advocacy group digitalundivided. Because charitable giving is a form of free speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, Fearless Fund's lawyers have said it cannot be forced to use race-neutral criteria for a grant program designed to further its belief that "Black women-owned businesses are vital to our economy.
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