Arkansas health agency ends scholarship that excluded white students after lawsuit

The Arkansas Minority Health Commission has ended a scholarship program that excluded white students to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Do No Harm, a group of health professionals working against discriminatory DEI policies.

The lawsuit, filed in mid-April, challenged the constitutionality of the scholarship sponsored by the commission that limited eligibility based on race, according to the attorney general of Arkansas.

To settle the lawsuit, the commission agreed “it will no longer offer the scholarship and will not reinstate it with limitations for eligibility based on race,” Attorney General Tim Griffin stated in a May 8 news release. “… As a general matter, under the U.S. Constitution, the government cannot treat its citizens differently based on their race.”