Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And now, it’s over. What happens next? In many ways, the answer to that question is based on what affirmative action was really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harvard students protesting on July 1, 2023, after the Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action. Craig F. Walker/The ...

The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer. Many medical-school leaders decried the ...

The Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) v. President and Fellows of Harvard and SFAI v. University of North Carolina today. The court said that admissions ...

In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston. He was ...

Before the Supreme Court adjourns for recess this summer, pundits expect them to decide on two affirmative action cases on the docket: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) v. President and ...

Of the almost four thousand degree-granting colleges in the United States, only a very small portion are highly selective. These are the institutions that the Supreme Court’s decision striking down ...

When the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in June, it triggered a new “colorblind” college admissions paradigm that will add to the burden of students who are already loaded down with ...

The Republican activists leading a decades-long assault on affirmative action, which is poised to succeed in the Supreme Court, claim they want to eliminate racism and create a colorblind society.

A majority of Americans support affirmative action in higher education and in the workplace, according to a recent PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll – an opinion that runs counter to the Supreme Court's ...

With today’s decision curtailing affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court has landed another powerful blow for older white America in its struggle against the kaleidoscopically ...