Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists.
The Supreme Court voted 7-1 late Thursday to uphold a federal program that has provided scholarships to hundreds of thousands of black and mixed-race students for university studies since 2005. Its constitutionality was challenged by a right of center party, The Democrats. Three justices abstained from the vote.The court ruled last week in a separate case that it was constitutional for universities to use racial quotas in determining who is admitted."If I didn't have the scholarship, I wouldn't be here. It pays my entire tuition," said 22-year-old student Felipe Nunes, taking a break between classes at the privately run Univerisdade Paulista in Sao Paulo.Nunes, the mixed-race son of a mechanic, said he's the first person in his family to attend...
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This week, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a bill to require the state's public universities to give undocumented aliens -- generally illegal -- in-state tuitio...
This week, I held a bake sale -- a racist bake sale. I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, "Cupcakes for sale." My price list read: Asians -- $1.50 Whites -- $1.00 ...
Fox Business host uses sweet treats to make point about controversial policy
Northern Ireland's police force will stop being required to hire Catholic applicants over Protestants following a decade of change that has bolstered Catholic suppor...
The achievement gap between Hispanic and white students is the same as it was in the early 1990s, despite two decades of accountability reforms, according to data re...
A white group of firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 has been awarded about $2 million in damages from the city ...
Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide who gets in and who doesn't?With an emphatic "no," they m...
Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide who gets in and who doesn't?With an emphatic "no," they m...
Brazil's top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country ou...
The top Democratic candidate in this year's Senate race in Massachusetts was listed as a minority professor in a newly discovered University of Pennsylvania report –...
An upstate New York town violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers...
CANNES, France (AP) — At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from As...
Megyn Kelly on SCOTUS deciding whether the University of Texas has the right to take race into consideration on college admissions
The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of th...
Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick says colleges may have to overhaul a long-standing policy
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