The forces that have been defeating affirmative action programs in America’s colleges — and even a local angel investor group — seem to be headed for a new target: West Point. Last year, the U.S.

A longtime rule may soon be scrapped that helped employers ensure they were providing equal employment opportunities and improve diversity, ...

THE CLAIM: Affirmative action is the main reason why Black people enter higher education, not because of their own merit. The majority of Black students do not meet the standard academic criteria ...

A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. DOT’s DBE program after policy changes ended race- and sex-based presumptions.

In one of his first acts as President in his second term in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 21, 2025, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based ...

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Tyler Lynn, a Spanish instructor at a high school in southern Oregon, is suing the state over a rebate program that covers the cost of teaching licenses for racial minorities and nonnative English ...

WASHINGTON ? President Bush, stepping into the most politically charged affirmative action case in a generation, asserted Wednesday that a program of racial preferences for minority applicants at the ...

Minority- and women-owned businesses are bracing for the end of affirmative action in federal contracting — and the potential loss of contracts worth at least $70 billion a year — as government ...

The EEOC submitted a proposal to the White House regulatory office that would remove a decades-old rule that helps protect companies seeking to implement affirmative action plans voluntarily.

The Arkansas House of Representatives approved legislation Thursday to end government-sponsored affirmative action programs in the state, but it will need to go back to the Senate before it goes to ...