The Latest Breaking News from Affirmative Action

The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sound bite: Black and brown students are being admitted over higher-achieving white and Asian American applicants. Ascribed a flawed essence, affirmative action has become easier to reject.

Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades

The 6-3 majority was solidified in former President Donald Trump's term, but its roots go back to the Bushes and the political circumstances of 1991 and 2005.

On Wednesday in the nation’s capital, officials at all levels were busily working on official papers that would have a lot to do with Jaylin Osborne’s hopes and dreams for a bright future in college and beyond.

Despite early moderate rulings, this term will be remembered for booming decisions on race, LGBTQ+ rights and student debt

Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni

Citizens in seven states express opposition to expanding or implementing affirmative action policies.

"It seems that the court is willing to uphold use of race when government power is at stake," expert says

Left-wing organizations and Democrats clash with court's ruling, highlighting ongoing racial divide in America

A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in northern Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling banning affirmative action in college admissions