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On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held that admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

Several highly selective colleges and universities in the U.S.—including MIT, Yale, Princeton, and now Harvard—have finally revealed the racial makeup of their incoming freshmen, the Class of 2028.

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), ...

As the Supreme Court gears up to make a decision regarding affirmative action this spring, Dan Slater discusses the law in the New York Times, and whether it hurts or helps students of color. The last ...

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with President Joe Biden, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) What ...

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 recent ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions may have negative implications for our nation, especially in K-12 (“Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in ...

What happens when race is taken out of university admissions? In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which bans state government institutions including the universities from considering ...

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 ...

It’s been a little over a year since the United States Supreme Court ended affirmative action based on race. In the first school year since that landmark decision, there were no “meaningful deviations ...

Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...