"Socioeconomic" preferences often help low-income blacks, but low-income Asian Americans.

Did Zohran Mamdani lie when he wrote he checked the "Black/African American" box on his college applications?

The Education Department has used "guidance" letters to force states, colleges and districts to spend hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Census doesn't ask people about their religion. Why not stop putting Americans in pseudo-racial boxes? , asks Michael Lind. The...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...

"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...

"Affirmative action," a euphemism for racial preferences, "is a misguided, discriminatory policy whose end is long overdue," writes...

Racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, striking down affirmative action plans...

Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...

Affirmative action was created at a time when most Americans belonged to a white majority or a black minority, writes Megan McArdle in...

Diversity is a "fig leaf" for elite colleges' desire to discriminate on the basis of race, says linguist John McWhorter in a New York...

Based on yesterday's oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to reject race-based affirmative...

Sixty-three percent of Americans say colleges shouldn't consider race in admissions, according to a Washington Post poll. Blacks are...