Harvard must face a lawsuit over campus antisemitism after a federal judge on Tuesday denied its motion to dismiss the litigation.

The big picture: Jewish students sued the university, alleging it ignored discrimination amid campus response to the Israel-Hamas war and related protests.

Catch up quick: The lawsuit came a week after then-president Claudine Gay resigned over a controversial congressional testimony, in which she didn't outright condemn calls for the genocide of Jews.

• A spring encampment by pro-Palestinian protesters ignited a "flash point," Massachusetts District Judge Richard G. Stearns wrote.

Zoom in: "The protests were, at times, confrontational and physically violent, and plaintiffs legitimately fear their repetition," Stearns wrote.

• "The harassment also impacted plaintiffs' life experience at Harvard; they dreaded walking through the campus, missed classes, and stopped participating in extracurricular events."

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Former President Trump's false attack against Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning if she can identify with more than one race, arrives as the number of people in the U.S. identifying as multiracial is surging.

Why it matters: Trump's comments illuminate how some Americans consistently misunderstand the complexities of people from multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds and how those identities shape their lives.

Catch up fast: Trump's comments to reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention last week, saying Harris primarily identified as Indian and "became Black" recently, stirred discussions about her background.

Reality check: Harris regularly cites her background as the daughter of a South Asian immigrant mother and a Jamaican immigrant father.

• Harris graduated from Howard University (an HBCU), joined the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha and was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus as a U.S. senator.

Harris is hardly alone. People who identify as multiracial, or more than one race, are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census.

• The 2020 Census found that those who identify as multiracial more than tripled from 9 million in 2010 to 33.8 million a decade later.

In Massachusetts, 8.7% of the population identify as multiracial, more than 600,000 individuals.

• The number of non-white legislators is growing, and majority-minority cities like Boston are seeing similar shifts at the municipal level.

Zoom in: The number of multiracial residents doubled in Greater Boston between 2010 and 2020, partly because of the rise of mixed-identity births, according to a 2021 Boston Indicators report.

• Nearly 1 in 5 babies born in Massachusetts in 2019 were of mixed race or ethnicity — more than the number of Black and Latino babies combined.
• "This creates a uniquely American demographic group that can effectively navigate in different communities and bring people together," Trevor Mattos, research manager at Boston Indicators, wrote in 2021.
• "But at the same time, an increasingly multiracial society can also create fear and be leveraged as a weapon for racism and nativism."

Keep reading: Multiracial Americans' influence

🏆 Team USA's Gabby Thomas, a Harvard University graduate who grew up in Northampton, took gold in the women's 200m at the Paris Olympics. (NBC Boston)

A federal judge is allowing Massachusetts to bail out some of Steward Health Care's hospitals to keep them open through August while they seek buyers. (SHNS)

• The hospital chain is turning properties over to its lender, which might facilitate quicker sales.

Celtics star Jaylen Brown launched a nonprofit, Boston Xchange (BXC), to back entrepreneurs of color in the creative economy. (GBH News)

🏥 Brockton Hospital plans to reopen next week, 18 months after an electrical fire. (BBJ)

"Love is Blind" isn't just a dating show to Donna A. Driscoll. It's a relationship show.

Why it matters: Driscoll, executive vice president of casting and talent at Kinetic Content, says staying authentic and open-minded is key to not only landing a spot on the "Netflix" social experiment, but finding a lifelong match.

With casting underway in the New England area, Driscoll shared a few protips for applicants:

💗 What they want: "Authenticity and genuine character," Driscoll says.

• That means answering questions honestly about your strengths, your flaws and how you've grown as a person.
• The application and the casting team will ask, are you really ready for marriage? What are your views on marriage overall?

❌ What they don't want: Someone who's there to play the villain or use the show for clout.

• They also don't want any politicians or candidates for office. The reason? Driscoll says a contestant with media exposure and training would have an unfair advantage and potentially power over the other contestants.

💻 What's new: The virtual casting call.

• Driscoll didn't say when, but applicants will get a chance to partake in a virtual casting call.
• If you forgot to add something to your application, this is your chance to bring something new.

✅ What's next: Zoom interviews and vetting.

• Those who move forward will get one-on-one interview requests with the casting team.
• If you miss the interview, you're out.
• Some people have their family nearby, or happen to have a relative jump in to sing their praises.
• Driscoll didn't seem to mind, but she noted the casting team will be calling family and friends separately to vet prospective contestants.

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