SCOTUS And Affirmative Action: Who Is Abigail Fisher?Michel Martin
The Supreme Court upended decades of precedent and progress this week through several rulings. Starting with binging an end to affirmative action. The Court also blocked president Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan. Both decisions have disproportiona
Religion and birth control crowd out all the other headlines on the presidential campaign trail. But come this fall, the question of race is likely to enter the mix.The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to take up a case challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action pro...
Colleges and universities are seeing mixed results in the diversity of their incoming freshman classes after the Supreme Court set new limits on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. For example, the Yale University class of 2028 saw no difference from the ...
Affirmative action in my family For my part, I know that my family and I would not have had the same opportunities we did without affirmative action. My father certainly benefited early on in his career, when he was admitted to Rutgers Law School through an affirmative action initiative. Gett...
called “affirmative action” policies — as seven states now do. While the ruling focused on the use of race in selecting new students for public colleges, it presumably also would permit voters to end race-conscious policies in hiring of state and local employees and in awarding public ...
The affirmative action decision, he said, was "deeply concerning" -- and reversed roughly 40 years of precedent -- but was not a surprise. "I think it was harmful for Black students who want to attend elite [predominately white] institutions," Lomax said. But, he said...
But, this week, Smith praised the basketball Hall of Famer and NBA analyst for recently taking a strong social stance.Last week, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action and declared race can no longer be a factor in college admissions, overturning long-standing programs that have benefitted ...
conservative members of the Supreme Court, Thomas takes a textualist approach to interpreting the Constitution, trying to uphold the document's original meaning. His approach to many issues, such as opposing affirmative action, has drawn criticism from liberals and members of some minority communities...
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action court case upholding the amendment to the state constitution of Michigan prohibiting discrimination by public colleges and universities on the basis of race, sex and ethnicity. It is noted that the court reversed action based on equal-protection grounds by the ...