Affirmative

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That bar will make it exceedingly difficult for colleges and universities to consider race as part of their admissions process going forward. Roberts’ majority opinion did leave open a small window for how colleges could consider race in…

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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…

On Friday, 12 May 2023 the Minister of Employment and Labour published the much-anticipated Notice identifying proposed national economic sectors and employment equity numerical targets under the Employment Equity Act (the “EEA”).…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate on Thursday narrowly approved legislation aimed at ending affirmative action by state and local agencies, despite warnings that the move would threaten a host of programs ranging…

Race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions could soon be a thing of the past. At least that’s the impression many observers got after listening to oral arguments about the practice before the U.S Supreme Court. Scholars…

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action. That helps explain why a distinguished group of 35 military officials wrote a brief to the Supreme…

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday expressed scepticism over universities’ authority to consider race as a factor in college admissions while hearing arguments in two cases on affirmative action that could have…