Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Speaks on Affirmative Action, HBCUs at NABJ 23

BY ELIJAH PITTMAN

Affirmative action and HBCUs dominated the floor at NABJ’s forum on Thursday afternoon at the NABJ 2023 conference.

United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, spoke to Errin Haines, journalist and host of the forum, on two of the most pressing topics surrounding American education.

“It seems like education is under attack from many different ways,” Cardona said.

“States are doing their best to disrupt public education attacking, and now we have the Supreme Court with a very bad decision (Affirmative Action), taking us back, removing one of the best tools schools had to ensure diversity on campus.”

Although the decision was a significant