This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. After Claudine Gay, Harvard's first Black president, recently resigned, conservative activist Chris Rufo posted on X, quote, "this is the beginning of the end for ...

Minority- and women-owned businesses are bracing for the end of affirmative action in federal contracting — and the potential loss of contracts worth at least $70 billion a year — as government ...

Just days into taking office, President Trump delivered on his campaign promises to dismantle DEI programs in federal agencies. On January 20 and 21, President Trump issued two such executive orders ...

Stripped of Their Phones, Virginia High School Students Are on Their Best Behavior Man Who Attempted to Assassinate Justice Kavanaugh Sentenced to Just Eight Years in Prison FBI Cuts Ties with ...

The forces that have been defeating affirmative action programs in America’s colleges — and even a local angel investor group — seem to be headed for a new target: West Point. Last year, the U.S.

A JAMA Network Open paper calls for medical schools to adopt 'alternative strategies' to maintain racial diversity post the ...

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one ...

(CNN) — Here is some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable court cases. Affirmative action policies focus on improving opportunities for groups of people, like women ...

It has been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...