With the striking down of affirmative action over the summer, I had assumed the debate was over. Conservatives won, and Black students — as we often are — were left to grapple with what this new ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series about affirmative action at the University of California. It was prompted by Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case that will come ...

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 ...

Footnotes is a new history podcast from the Yale Daily News Podcast Desk. In this episode, Rishika Veeramachaneni ’25 and Zawadi Kigamwa ’25 cover the history of affirmative action. Rishika then ...

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, ...

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It’s the tail end of summer, and Eddie Cole’s life is in boxes. In his Southern California home, he’s had a frenzied week, packing up his belongings for a cross-country move to Cambridge, ...

Harvard's first female President, Drew Gilpin Faust, discusses her new memoir Drew Gilpin Faust is a trailblazer who served as the first female president of Harvard University. In her new memoir, ...

In recent decades, diversity, equity and inclusion have emerged as core values of many higher education institutions, including at Duke. But as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI — making ...

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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, INTERNATIONAL HOST: Now, our next guest is a trailblazer who served as the first female president of Harvard University. In her new memoir, Drew Gilpin Faust, shares her ...