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This year, affirmative action was erased from America’s college admissions process. What has long been a protected policy within American universities for the previous half-century has become ...

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In a landmark judgment in June 2023, the US supreme court ruled against the use of race-conscious admissions in colleges and universities. This decision marked a controversial end to affirmative ...

This post was written by Erica D. Marshall–Lee, Ph.D., ABPP, on behalf of the Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates. The Supreme Court recently made the decision to end affirmative action in the form of ...

On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind two longstanding guidance documents addressing ...

President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...

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 ...

It’s been less than a month since the Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action in admissions was unconstitutional. Nonetheless, last Tuesday the group that brought forth the suits, Students for ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! John Jeffries, a professor at UVA, summarizes the two legal arguments in the Bakke affirmative action case and explains how Justice Powell bridged ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: Travis Ballie holds a sign that reads (Diversity Works) in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on October 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. Today the high court is scheduled to hear ...