Recently, the US Supreme Court rejected race-based affirmative action at US colleges and universities. It said that such action “lacks sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting ...

People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...

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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.

Because of nondiscrimination policies, workplaces and universities have become more diverse. But the success of affirmative action programs doesn’t mean they are no longer needed.

Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.

Affirmative action is racist, and therefore wrong. I once tried to make that point by holding a racist bake sale. I called it an "affirmative action bake sale." I sold cupcakes at a mall.

Like it or not, “affirmative action” was extraordinarily effective — in its first year at Harvard, admissions of Black students rose 51 percent, and diversity on college campuses has ...

The Supreme Court first approved affirmative action for university admissions in 1978—though it ruled schools could not use racial quotas for admissions—and again affirmed the practice in ...

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