New polling shows that affirmative action is unpopular among California voters, even as California Democrats move to reinstate the practice at public universities.
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) on Wednesday signed legislation mandating publicly traded businesses to hire one diverse board member each by 2021.
The Justice Department's decision to threaten Yale University with a lawsuit over allegedly discriminatory admissions practices has raised questions about timing and politics, but those connected to the probe say they had little choice but to proceed when they did.
The Department of Justice has concluded that Yale University unlawfully discriminates against Asian and white applicants in its admissions process. 
Washington state voters rejected a referendum to permit affirmative action in hiring decisions, election officials confirmed Tuesday evening. 
Harvard systematically advertised to black students whose low standardized test scores gave them little chance of being admitted, a new study reveals, in what the authors suggest was a bid to obscure racial quotas at the university. 
Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Calif.) ripped Harvard University for systematic bias against Asian American students, which was revealed after internal Harvard reports became a focal point in a lawsuit against the school. 
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an affirmative action program at the University of Texas that takes an applicant’s race into account when considering college admission. 
A Democratic state representative from Minnesota attacked Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with racially charged language on Tuesday after Thomas joined a majority of justices in striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act.
