With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Whitney Gouche of EMERGE, a group helping high-achieving students in low-income areas, about reaction to the court's decision to ban affirmative action from higher education.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra condemned the Supreme Court’s decision banning affirmative action in higher education admissions, saying it will diminish health equity ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that race-conscious admissions in higher education, commonly known as affirmative action, is unconstitutional. The court considered two cases related to affirmative ...

Students at the University of California’s elite Berkeley campus. Berkeley and UCLA saw a 40 percent drop in Black and Latino student enrollment following the passage in 1996 of Proposition 209, a ...

The effects of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action will take time to materialize—but a 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in key states “sharp ...

Some hailed it as a victory, but the president said this isn't a "normal court." Lawmakers, legal experts, presidential candidates -- past and present -- and others are reacting on Thursday to a ...

In a video posted to X, conservative political commentator and conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson declared Affirmative Action to be an act of “anti-racism.” He captioned the six-minute-long video, ...

The architect of the attacks on affirmative action has pitted Asian Americans and Black Americans against each other—letting white folks off the hook. Legal architect: In June, the Supreme Court gave ...

In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston. He was ...