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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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.

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.

The effects of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action will take time to materialize—but a 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in key states ...

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 ...

Free speech, inequality and the role of women. Speakers from Malaysia debate the issues affecting their country. Should there ...

Public attitudes about affirmative action depend on how Americans are asked about it. Americans who had heard the phrase affirmative action in the Center’s December survey were asked whether they saw ...

He argues that affirmative action policies violate the 14th amendment and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This isn’t the first time the High Court has taken up this issue.

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