With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Whitney Gouche of EMERGE, a group helping high-achieving students in low-income areas, about reaction to the court's decision to ban affirmative action from higher education.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that race-conscious admissions in higher education, commonly known as affirmative action, is unconstitutional. The court considered two cases related to affirmative ...

The NAACP lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court for its Thursday ruling that banned U.S. colleges and universities from applying affirmative action in their admissions. The organization dismissed the ...

In a video posted to X, conservative political commentator and conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson declared Affirmative Action to be an act of “anti-racism.” He captioned the six-minute-long video, ...

Students at the University of California’s elite Berkeley campus. Berkeley and UCLA saw a 40 percent drop in Black and Latino student enrollment following the passage in 1996 of Proposition 209, a ...

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Some hailed it as a victory, but the president said this isn't a "normal court." Lawmakers, legal experts, presidential candidates -- past and present -- and others are reacting on Thursday to a ...

In its first guidance since the Supreme Court decision, the administration says many recruitment programs are still allowed, but other questions are left unanswered. By Anemona Hartocollis The Biden ...

People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...

Students walk past the Doe Memorial Library on the University of California, Berkeley campus on Feb. 3, 2022. Courtesy Thalia Juarez/CalMatters. California voters may soon vote on whether they support ...