BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has issued another blow to affirmative action. In a 6-2 vote, the court decided voters can ban affirmative action programs through ballot initiatives.

After a long-anticipated wait, the United States Supreme Court recently deferred ruling on the merits of the affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, instead sending it back ...

Critics argue that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prevents charitable giving based on race. This Feature defends these charitable contributions as ...

In a historic move, Ghana‘s Parliament has unanimously passed the long-anticipated Affirmative Action (Gender Equity) Bill, which has been under consideration since 2011. The bill – now awaiting ...

Last summer, in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority struck down race-conscious admission programs adopted by Harvard College and the ...

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 5, 2025. Getty Images President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has committed to ending ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that college admission policies that consider race as a factor violate the Constitution, bringing an end to affirmative action in a decision that is likely to ...

Clarence Thomas says his Yale law degree "bore the taint of racial preference." Sept. 30, 2007— -- Although Clarence Thomas has written his views on preferential policies in his Supreme Court ...

Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...

Judges who think letting kids into Harvard based on race is wrong, won't think deciding who builds parking lots based on race ...

Affirmative action, as we know it, is probably doomed. When you ask top Obama administration officials and people in the federal court system about the issue, you often hear a version of that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that new haven, Conn., violated 20 white and Hispanic firefighters’ rights by scrapping a promotions test that few black candidates passed leaves city officials in a ...