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December 9, 2015
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in yet another racial affirmative action case involving college admissions...
October 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Needless to say, referring to the African-American community as 'the blacks' is considered dismissive, and in some…
October 14, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — After the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions…
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 - 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…
December 1, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - The ruling that ended Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions was put on hold Friday…
November 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - On Thursday, a federal appeals court threw out Michigan's controversial voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college…
October 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for…
March 30, 2012
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have…
February 24, 2012
OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not…
February 14, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Backers of affirmative action asked a federal appeals court Monday to overturn California's 15-year-old ban on…
July 5, 2011
OPINION - Are African-Americans, Latinos and other racial minorities unduly hurt by the referendum process, when the public policy is…