As the Supreme Court prepares to release its decisions on affirmative action later this summer — likely ruling that the 14th Amendment and Civil Rights Act bar “the use of racial preferences by public ...

The singular Black male on the United States Supreme Court made one of his most hypocritical decisions to date, by siding with the Court’s conservatives and ruling to effectively eliminate diversity ...

This year, affirmative action was erased from America’s college admissions process. What has long been a protected policy within American universities for the previous half-century has become ...

A new Pew Research Center study on affirmative action released Thursday, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the matter later this month, shows that more than half of Asian American adults who ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: In two companion cases involving Harvard and UNC, the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities may no longer consider race as part of the college admissions process. The ...

1958 -- Congress creates Small Business Administration's Section 8 (a) small business assistance program. 1960 -- New Orleans public schools are desegregated. 1961 -- President John F. Kennedy uses ...

In September of 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new state law banning legacy admissions in higher education. This policy prevents private colleges from considering students’ familial ...

Lawsuits before the Supreme Court over race-conscious admissions policies are the latest chapter in the contentious history of affirmative action. By the late 1960s, many colleges had begun to ...