In this video, I push back on the idea that affirmative action was about letting in unqualified Black students. I explain how it was meant to give qualified Black and brown students a fair chance in a ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting DEI programs, which also revoked Lyndon B. Johnson‘s 1965 Executive Order 11246. This order prohibited discrimination in hiring, promotion, ...

President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Affirmative action is a “positive” form of discrimination, according to a new book written by University Trustee Randall Kennedy ’77 that was released by Pantheon Books this month. In "For ...

On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind two longstanding guidance documents addressing affirmative action under Title VII. The EEOC’s action marks ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...