A civil rights complaint has been filed against Northern Illinois University for two programs that appear to only be open to black applicants.
The complaint targets NIU’s Black Student Achievement Program and Black Male Initiative, hosted by the university’s Center for Black Studies.
It was submitted Nov. 25 to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights by the Equal Protection Project, an offshoot of the conservative watchdog group Legal Insurrection Foundation.
The project is described as working to oppose “discrimination done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” and “devoted to the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity.”