The Latest Breaking News from Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action. The ruling on Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is expected today. The contract between actors and studios expires tonight.

Data from Universities of California and Michigan show how the bans have adversely affected Black and Indigenous student enrollment

Experts tell Axios there are still a number of options at medical schools' disposal.

Twenty-five years of experimentation under race-neutral admissions policies — and a half-billion dollars later — the University of California system says they still can't meet their diversity goals.

So it’s over. Seriously. It’s hard to find a simple workaround to rescue affirmative action in college admission after today’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that the programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violate the 14th Amendment. Oh, given time, we’ll come up with something. But Chief Justice…

For decades, conservatives have railed against judicial activism, but Thursday’s decision striking down affirmative action by colleges and universities in admissions was the height of conservative judicial activism. The court rejected almost half a century of precedents, overturned decisions made by public and private universities across the country, and ignored…

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The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s two Black justices sparred over the meaning and impact of race in dueling opinions on the majority’s decision to curtail affirmative action programs at universities.