A conservative group claims a student program for female students of color at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is discrimination.
The Legal Insurrection Foundation made a complaint to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights claiming it violated the civil rights of other students.
Creative Regal Women of Knowledge provides professional development and mentoring to sophomore students and older.
MIT’s website explains the program is ‘designed for undergraduate women of color which includes Black, Indigenous, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islanders, and other minoritized ethnicities’.