A few years ago, my father, uncle and I were talking on my grandmother’s front porch. Somewhere between discussing Muhammad Ali and politics (because we always ended up discussing Ali and politics), ...

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 ...

Some people call it affirmative action, others positive discrimination, but the objective is the same - to build a fairer society by treating some people unfairly. But does it actually work? Business ...

A closely divided Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bakke, striking down the medical school’s affirmative action program on grounds that it used race as the sole or primary criterion for admission.

A lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has the potential to end affirmative action nationwide by the end of this month. The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard two related ...