Affirmative Action

President Trump's Supreme Court pick may determine the future of race-conscious admissions.

Even the Supreme Court itself has cast a disapproving eye on the case.

Donald Trump was elected, focus shifted to Harvard and the University of Texas fought back.

What is affirmative action? Why is this a big deal? Is the Trump report true?

“My fingerprints are nowhere near any of this,” says Blum, who helped with the Supreme Court case Fisher v. the University of Texas.

In my time in college, I met lots of people of all races who were all over the spectrum in terms of high school achievements.

Scalia’s assertion that African-Americans don’t do well at fast-track schools is just plain wrong.

The case before the Justices is far more complex than simply reserving places for minorities.

The Supreme Court justice has all but said that black lives don’t matter.

The court made it clear it was not deciding the larger and divisive question of whether affirmative action admission policies can be lawful.

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