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California's affirmative action measure is failing

by Janie Har
| November 4, 2020 12:27 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A national awakening on race drove a well-funded, star-studded campaign in California to reinstate affirmative action, but the measure that would allow the nation’s most populated state to grant preferential treatment based on race and gender was failing.

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