The Latest Breaking News from Affirmative Action

The court has upheld the use of race-conscious admissions in the past, but has moved to the right in the years since.

For nearly half a century, the University of California has been at the center of national debates over affirmative action and who is entitled to coveted seats in the premier public higher education system.

I did not time my book on racial classifications to coincide with litigation over affirmative action. Indeed, the book is not about affirmative action, and much of the book has nothing directly to do with it. Of course, though, it turns out that you can't talk about the post-World War…

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The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation’s oldest public and private universities

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education

WASHINGTON — Following last term's overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court's conservatives are moving now to sharply limit or strike down affirmative action at colleges and universities.

The campaign to end the practice has been long and well-funded.

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years

Harvard and UNC attendees address how applicants’ backgrounds shape their lives as supreme court hears case

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas overcame humble beginnings and racial discrimination before earning elite educations, but they bring very different views about race-conscious college admissions to the Supreme Court as it weighs affirmative action challenges.