The judge ruled a consent decree reached in 1980 can remain. Both the fire and police departments remain largely white and ...

On June 30, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it has formally withdrawn longstanding ...

Is preventing the deaths of Black mothers and babies compelling? In a recent lawsuit, a conservative legal organization ...

Rich Barlow is a writer for Boston University. The opinions expressed in this article are his own. When the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions in 2023, experts ...

The federal government is once again targeting Minnesota in court, this time alleging the state’s affirmative action program for hiring civil servants amounts to sex- and race-based discrimination.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the country’s most prestigious colleges are enrolling record numbers of low-income students — a growing admissions priority in the absence of affirmative action. America’s ...

Princeton University professor Paul Frymer and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley debate the resolution, "The U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision to dismantle affirmative action in American ...

WASHINGTON — After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions ...

The Supreme Court's decision against affirmative action led to decreased diversity in medical school admissions, particularly affecting Black, Hispanic, and Latino students. Enrollment of Asian and ...

Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...