Group Advocating ‘Race-Blind America’ Wants Medical Schools to Admit DEI’s Harm

Group Advocating ‘Race-Blind America’ Wants Medical Schools to Admit DEI’s Harm
Students sit on the steps of Wilson Library on the campus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2018. Jonathan Drake/Reuters
Terri Wu
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A nonprofit advocating for a race-blind America vows to take its pushback on the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in medical schools to a new level: asking leadership to admit the harm of DEI to medicine.

Earlier in May, the efforts of Color Us United (CUU) and its partners drove the University of North Carolina (UNC) system to end its task force integrating social justice into the medical school’s curriculum. That made UNC the first medical school to do so.

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