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Youngkin, Ellis leading far-right push to keep the number of Black students at UVA in line

Chris Graham

Seven percent of the undergraduate students at the University of Virginia are Black, up a tick from the 6.7 percent rate in 2020, when UVA President Jim Ryan convened a task force on racial equity that has come under fire from the far right, and under direct attack by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.