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After over a hundred years of total or near total exclusion of Black students and other students of color, the University of North Carolina and Harvard began admitting larger numbers of students, ...

Affirmative action is a term synonymous with efforts aimed at encouraging participation of women and minorities in various areas such as education and employment. Since its inception, affirmative ...

We all thought affirmative action was struck down when the Supreme Court ruled in the Students for Fair Admissions case in 2023. But some schools appear to be giving a boost to an unexpected group: ...

Controversial legislation stripping numerous references to affirmative action from state law and eliminating training ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The full impact of the Supreme Court's June 2023 ruling that colleges can't consider race in admissions may not be known for years ...

Affirmative action is a program required of federal contractors to ensure equal employment opportunity. It requires good faith efforts to achieve and maintain a workforce where protected veterans and ...

On this episode of the Washington Monthly Podcast, Anne Kim and Paul Glastris talk with Richard Kahlenberg, constitutional lawyer and leading advocate for class-based affirmative action. Kahlenberg, ...

The majority-white state of Santa Catarina enacted a January law that banned race-based affirmative action at public universities and state-funded colleges, despite precedent that such systems are ...