Challenging The NCAA: HBCUs Say No More Discrimination In Academic Rules

For more than 50 years, the NCAA has imposed academic rules to make sure college athletes aren’t just athletes, and the decades-long process has generated plenty of controversy.

Critics claim the academic standards, and the penalties for not meeting them, discriminate against Black college athletes and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Now, lawyers have filed a class action, civil rights lawsuit demanding the NCAA’s current system, called the Academic Performance Program, be abolished.