There's one simple phrase that changes how people respond to you.

On their own, “affirmative” and “action” are two of the more benign words in the English language; taken together, they’re incendiary. A 2013 Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans oppose ...

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 ...

Protesters attend a rally in support of affirmative action in college admissions on October 31, 2022. Photo by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images For contemporary observers, it ...

This Sunday will mark the 50th anniversary of the first time the phrase “affirmative action” was used in the civil rights context, in Executive Order 10925, which President Kennedy signed on March 6, ...

In her dissent to the Supreme Court's latest ruling on affirmative action, Justice Sonia Sotomayor had some tough words about the majority opinion. But there were two words that she avoided: ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court will hear the University of Michigan affirmative action case April 1. The Administration has filed a brief in support of the plaintiffs, and the President has personally weighed in ...

The term “affirmative action” has a long history in the United States. One early reference appears in an executive order that President John F. Kennedy signed in 1961, directing federal contractors to ...

Challenges to the title and description of a misleading ballot initiative that seeks to ban affirmative action in Missouri. The cases were rendered moot when backers of the initiative failed to garner ...

Your editorial on race and science uses the phrase “affirmative action” (9 March, p 3). This is just a new way of saying “positive discrimination”. And how many times does it have to be said that ...

Challenges to the title and description of a misleading ballot initiative that seeks to ban affirmative action in Missouri. The cases were rendered moot when backers of the initiative failed to garner ...