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 ...

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 ...

Last summer’s Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action may have been a seismic event in the recent history of college admissions, but it hasn’t had much effect on applicants’ ...

Part I. From Kennedy to Reagan -- Affirmative action before Kennedy -- Kennedy and Johnson -- Affirmative action spreads-and mutates -- Nixon and the Philadelphia plan -- Prejudice persists, ...

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

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: Fifty years ago, a white Louisiana factory worker named Brian Weber sued for reverse discrimination and lost. The 1979 Supreme Court United Steelworkers of ...

Affirmative action in college admissions is “like a third rail” in Asian American communities, according to this searching study. Race studies scholar Poon (Rethinking College Admissions) tackles the ...

Donna J. Nicol uncovers the accomplishments of Hampton—the first Black woman trustee at California State University—and her fight to save affirmative action. Scheduled for publication on May 7, 2024, ...

But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial quotas under the euphemism “affirmative action,” Trump has gone ...

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While I rarely even read articles published in the Primary Source because of its conservative views, I was upset and appalled in reading a recent piece titled "Ideas, Not Colors," by Matt Senko. I ...