But a 2023 survey by University of Massachusetts at Amherst researchers places the level of white support closer to 30%, including 57% of Americans who are 18 to 29 years old.

Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College and other PWIs are on the list of schools seeing a dip in Black enrollment for the 2024 academic year.

One of the nation’s most elite liberal arts schools, Amherst College has historically also been one of its most diverse. In 2023, federal data revealed that its overall Black enrollment, 11 ...

After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, Amherst College, MIT and Washington University in St. Louis are among those that have seen their Black population decline for the class of 2028.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.