News Is Out reports that despite some companies retracting DEI initiatives due to political pressure, many still support ...

UCLA enrolled record numbers of new Black and Latino students for fall 2024, bucking trend of diversity declines at other elite colleges. UCLA’s race-neutral recruitment “ground game” builds ...

For instance, in his book When Affirmative Action Was White, political scientist and historian Ira Katznelson examines how the New Deal programs of the 1930s to 1940s strategically excluded Black ...

Differences around the world. In Europe, “positive action” is a more common term than affirmative action. In some contexts, “positive discrimination” is understood as a synonym for both ...

Affirmative action didn’t just give me a chance; it recognized that I, and many like me, were deserving all along. In 1961, affirmative action emerged as a response to racial injustices.

Anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum speaks to reporters at the "Rally for the American Dream-Equal Education Rights for All," ahead of the start of the trial in a lawsuit accusing Harvard ...

Since the publishing of my previous article on race-based affirmative action, I’ve received an influx of messages expressing a diverse range of opinions. Many have reached out in support; others ...

The conservative advocate who successfully challenged affirmative action in college admissions on Tuesday sued the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, arguing that race-conscious admissions ...

The first high school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision are trying to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.

Affirmative action — the practice of giving special consideration to minority groups and women in hiring and school placement — once enjoyed widespread support in the United States. No more.

Though the footnote fails to acknowledge it, military academies have been prominent in affirmative action jurisprudence, most notably in the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger.