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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

Ono said affirmative action provides the most immediate impact on diverse student enrollment. “I just think about the number of students who could have gone to Michigan between 2006 and today ...

As many anxiously await the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action—due any day now—a group of law deans is being proactive in expressing their continual commitment to diversity.

While many Americans perceive affirmative action negatively, there are three common misunderstandings that people need to understand for these perceptions to shift.

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.

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 ...