University of Alabama faces a lawsuit after a scholarship for Black students is challenged as discriminatory

ALABAMA ( WDHN ) – The University of Alabama is a facing a civil lawsuit from a national organization, who is accusing a scholarship for African American students for being discriminatory.

The Equal Protection Project, who is a national organization that opposes race-based affirmative action initiatives, is the group who is accusing the university that their Norton-Textra Endowed scholarship for minority students in English is discriminatory.

The group filed the suit with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights last week…

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