affirmative action

The Small Business Administration's federal contracting program for socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses wasn't a direct target of the U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year to effectively end race-conscious…

The Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a group that opposes affirmative action, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Naval Academy for using race in its admissions decisions.The 28-page lawsuit aims to stop the Naval Academy from…

The Department of Education has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s policy on legacy admissions in what can be seen as the next step in the legal fight over U.S. college admissions.Lawyers for Civil Rights, a…

Wesleyan University’s president announced Wednesday that the school is formally eliminating its legacy admissions policy in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action.The prestigious Connecticut college’s decision…

By ANNIE MA and AARON MORRISON - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference…

Chief Justice John Roberts may have written the majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court that ended affirmative action on Thursday, but Justice Clarence Thomas may savor the moment the most.Thomas, the second of only three Black Supreme…

Barbara Grutter, a white lady from Michigan, filed suit when she was rejected by the University of Michigan Law School, which admitted that it took steps to ensure a racially diverse student body. In Grutter v. Bollinger, a landmark case on…

The Supreme Court’s six conservative justices appeared ready to end affirmative action on Monday, during arguments in two cases challenging the limited use of race in college and university admissions.In Students for Fair Admissions v.…

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race…

Two members of that four-justice majority are gone from the court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September. Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018. The three dissenters in the case, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence…