The Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) v. President and Fellows of Harvard and SFAI v. University of North Carolina today. The court said that admissions ...

Prior to the Supreme Court’s recent bombshell decision on affirmative action, some predicted that a ruling to ban the practice would “take down” the diversity industry or deliver a “concussive” blow ...

The court ruled against the affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The Supreme Court issued a divided ruling on a pair of challenges to affirmative action ...

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court "severely limited, if not effectively ended, the use of affirmative action in college admissions," as described by Amy Howe at SCOTUS Blog: By a vote of 6-3, the ...

Janell Ross is the senior correspondent on race and identities for TIME. There is good reason Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson worked into her much-talked about dissent in the ...

June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious policies in college admissions, ending decades of precedent that had allowed schools nationwide to use such programs ...

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that affirmative action programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, finding in two majority opinions ...

Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "The End of Affirmative Action" in the video player above. WILMINGTON, Del. – A wall of the Rodriguez family home celebrates three seminal events with these words: "A ...

More than 60 years have passed since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington and yet his words still resonate today. “I think it’s very ...

Affirmative action, in the context of Supreme Court cases, is the consideration of race when admissions offices are reviewing student applications. It is, however, a minimum standard, as a relatively ...