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Edward Blum's crusade against affirmative action has used the legal strategy developed by civil...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWithout much scrutiny or fanfare, Edward Blum has led the attack against federal minority voter...
Edward Blum, the man who targeted affirmative action, says he wants equality, but his actions are...
theGrio via AOL· 8 months agoOPINION: Blum, who is now going after affirmative action in the workplace, seems determined to...
Meet Edward Blum, the man who wants to take down affirmative action
theGrio via AOL· 1 year agoThe U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday to decide whether to throw college affirmative...
The Conservative Activist Who Brought Down Affirmative Action Has a New Target
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTwenty years ago, Arian Simone was a college student in Tallahassee, Florida, trying to scrape...
Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping American politics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966,...
Supreme Court rulings make life harder for so many Americans: Color Us Connected
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThis column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week,...
Black women-owned firm targeted by conservative activist for grant program: 'We are not scared'
Yahoo News via AOL· 8 months agoFearless Fund, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm, was sued last week for discrimination for...
Opinion | The Risk of 'Colorblind Absolutism'
Politico via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe 4th U.S. Court of Appeals recently upheld a new admissions process at the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, known as “TJ,” a magnet school located in Alexandria ...
The affirmative action battle shifts to a new front
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCNN’s John Blake explores how a conservative group set its sights on race-conscious admissions at US military service academies. Plus, check out...
‘The stakes are huge’: UNC to defend use of race in admissions before Supreme Court
Raleigh News and Observer via AOL· 1 year agoUNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University next week will defend to the U.S. Supreme Court their...