Affirmative Action

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October 14, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — After the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions…
September 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is telling colleges and universities they can continue to seek diversity in admissions despite…
August 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - This year marks the 50-year-anniversary of the March on Washington -- and although much racial progress has…
July 6, 2013
VIDEO - Scholar and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry spoke to civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about significant changes in the…
June 25, 2013
OPINION - The Supreme Court did not dismantle affirmative action in its long-awaited ruling on Monday. It didn’t really affirm…
June 24, 2013
ANALYSIS - The Supreme Court's ruling Monday, while not the death blow to affirmative action that many of its supporters…
June 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Justice Clarence Thomas again urged the end of affirmative action on Monday, writing a fiery concurring opinion…
June 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Supreme Court did not outlaw affirmative action in a widely-anticipated opinion today, instead issuing a…
June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court…
June 19, 2013
ANALYSIS - The debate about women and minorities in the Cabinet illustrated a important dynamic in the debate over affirmative…
June 18, 2013
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
June 13, 2013
OPINION - It's 2013 and we've yet to truly overcome. Maybe it's not the best policy. But it is much…
June 11, 2013
NBC NEWS - As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a…
June 5, 2013
OPINION - We might first remember that affirmative action has never been very popular – mostly because it is profoundly…
May 29, 2013
OPINION - Despite the progress America has made in diversifying its workforce and its management ranks, the country is backsliding...
April 1, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
March 19, 2013
PRO PUBLICA - When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle…
March 12, 2013
OPINION -This year’s Supreme Court docket could dramatically alter racial policy in America, with cases that could invalidate two key…
February 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - If it rules as expected in two closely-watched cases over the next few months, the U.S. Supreme…
December 1, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - The ruling that ended Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions was put on hold Friday…