The Latest Breaking News from Affirmative Action

I can understand the disappointment of teenagers who toil away in high school only to be rejected by their dream colleges. What I can’t comprehend is the Asian American contingent who’ve joined forces with the right-wing legal strategist Edward Blum to dismantle affirmative action.

Well, you can't say that my new book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America, was not well-timed. Last week, the Supreme Court took up the issue of affirmative action in admissions, and directly addressed the question raised in my book as to whether the classifications are too…

Race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions could soon be a thing of the past. At least that’s the impression many observers got after listening to oral arguments about the practice before the U.S Supreme Court.

University professors are far from being the mirror image of the 21st century ethnic and racial demographics of our society and of the students we all teach.

LOS ANGELES — Kenji Horigome’s college application featured a 4.2 GPA, challenging coursework and a compelling narrative of losing his father as a boy and struggling to make ends meet with his single mother, a low-wage Koreatown restaurant worker. But he didn’t bother to apply to Harvard or Yale.

WASHINGTON — The conservative-controlled Supreme Court appears ready to curtail the use of race in college admissions. But the federal government has offered an unexpected defense of the practice: national security.

Counsel for UNC did not know which box students of Middle Eastern Origin are supposed to check.

An affirmative action case before the Supreme Court could have lasting implications for diversity in the military.

It’s not true that the U.S. Supreme Court is about to end affirmative action in college admissions.