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Richard Dawkins said affirmative action is “racist” and decried the pervasiveness of white guilt for the actions of their ancestors.

Anti-woke Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign exclusively shared his bold 25-point “America First 2.0” policy platform with Breitbart News.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy picked apart woke America’s idea of “systematic racial inequity” in a video uploaded to Instagram, claiming the government’s policies and practices “badly” failed black Americans.

Women in Film, one of those insufferable crybaby, affirmative-action groups that contribute to women being taken less seriously, is crybabying over the 75th Annual Directors Guild of America awards.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) denounced affirmative action by arguing that it’s “a demeaning process” that says “we do not have the intelligence to be part of this process, meritocracy, so we’re

Two justices on the U.S. Supreme Court pointed out Monday that the “holistic” approach used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina to include race in admissions standards was once used by universities to discriminate against Jews.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a pair of cases that could overturn the use of racial preferences in college admissions, focusing on challenges to affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

The chief recruiter for the Royal Air Force (RAF) resigned after being ordered to actively discriminate against white men in a way she believed was “unlawful”, reports suggest.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned the State Department senior Diversity and Inclusion officer over an internal email suggesting that “straight white men,” as well as those of certain religious backgrounds and those who are disabled, are being discriminated against in hiring

A group of parents is suing Boston Public Schools over alleged racially discriminatory admissions practices.

The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is to follow the lead of Cape Town and seek alternative power suppliers other than Eskom, the state-run electricity monopoly that has been gutted by overly aggressive affirmative action and mismanagement.

Following a Washington Post piece arguing President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who celebrated her confirmation on Friday, was not an “affirmative action hire,” many expressed ridicule, highlighting the president’s repeated campaign pledge to specifically put a black woman on the Supreme Court.

The vast majority of Americans believe the Supreme Court should rule that colleges cannot use race as a factor when considering an applicant for admission.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that she would recuse herself from an upcoming case alleging racial discrimination against Harvard University over affirmative action if she were to be confirmed by the Senate.

President Joe Biden’s vow to put the first black woman on the Supreme Court continued to backfire this week.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday slammed President Biden’s Supreme Court criteria of only nominating a “black woman” to the bench.

Georgetown Law has suspended constitutional law scholar and incoming administrator Ilya Shapiro over a tweet that criticized President Joe Biden’s “affirmative action” Supreme Court nomination process, which he said will cause the president’s nominee to “always have an asterisk attached” to her name.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher discussed the case before the U.S. Supreme Court on race-based affirmative action in college admissions and said that while he’s long been a supporter of affirmative action, he wonders if

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe advised Harvard to be more “subtle” in race-based admissions if affirmative action fails at the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can use racial preferences when deciding which students to admit for both public and private schools, reconsidering a half-century of legal precedent in a pair of cases the justices will hear this fall.

Doctors applying New York’s race-based rationing of COVID-19 treatments may expose themselves to legal liability, William Jacobson warned.

The January 6 committee “reminds me a little bit of McCarthyism” and lacks “an appropriate legislative purpose,” Alan Dershowitz said.

South Africa is enduring “load-shedding” for the third consecutive week, as Eskom, the public electricity company, has had to acknowledge major problems with maintenance and power generation capacity as the country enters the summer months.

A new study shows that the college craze over diversity has inspired more than a fair share of white applicants to lie.

A scientist’s speech at MIT on climate change was canceled because of past remarks opposing affirmative action policies.

Students interviewed on the campus of the University of Florida appeared to overwhelmingly support racial diversity quotas in college admissions and hiring for the workplace — but when asked if they support diversity quotas in college football, the students suddenly disagreed. One student pointed out “just let the skill shine, and whoever’s the best player deserves to be on the team.”

Victor Davis Hanson, historian, professor, and author of The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America, said on Wednesday that “open borders,” “globalism,” and “tribalism” are contributing to a collapse of the United States reminiscent of the fall of Rome.

Glenn Loury, a Brown University economics professor and host of the video blog The Glenn Show, criticized the need for affirmative action policies in education during the current era. Speaking at Malibu’s Pepperdine University School of Public Policy earlier this month, he explained black students do poorly on tests when they “don’t know the material” and not due to biases against them, urging educators to develop potential instead of lowering standards.

Princeton University will no longer require students to take Latin or ancient Greek to earn a classics degree, a change that comes as part of a larger effort by the school “to address systemic racism” on campus.

Leftists say they oppose discrimination against Asians while imposing “diversity” policies undermining Asian students, Alex Marlow said.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Friday that critical race theory undermines the U.S. military.

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier slammed preferential “Black Economic Empowerment” as “racial discrimination” Sunday, saying such favoritism smacks of apartheid.

A Silicon Valley elementary school was teaching third-graders Critical Race Theory, asking them to identify their “power and privilege.”

Company boards would be required to have at least one woman and one member of a preferred racial or sexual identity group.

An Appeals Court panel upheld Harvard University’s controversial affirmative action policy this week. The policy had previously been challenged by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which alleged that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants during its admissions process. Some analysts believe that the case will be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.

The Department of Education announced this week that it is investigating the University of Pittsburgh over its treatment of Professor Norman Wang, who was demoted from his position at the university hospital after he criticized affirmative action. The Department of Education claims that the university could lose its federal funding if it continues to violate Title VI by discriminating against applicants during its admissions process.