Lawyers have filed a rush of lawsuits against corporations, law firms, health care companies, art groups and nonprofits. And ...

The Justice Department’s test case to dismantle Minnesota’s affirmative action program turns on the viability of the US Supreme Court’s nearly 50-year-old precedent supporting narrowly-tailored ...

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to dismantle one of the federal government’s largest and longest-standing affirmative action programs, siding with two White-owned contracting businesses that ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the lawsuit is the department's "latest effort to bring Minnesota into compliance with federal law." ...

On January 14, 2026, the United States Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Civil Rights Division filed a federal suit seeking to strike down the State ...

The attorneys general of Florida and Texas issued legal opinions on race- and sex-based policies and programs, both arguing ...

Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court from the 1970s and 1980s recognized a narrow exception to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under ...

Affirmative action is a program required of federal contractors to ensure equal employment opportunity. It requires good faith efforts to achieve and maintain a workforce where protected veterans and ...

The fact that affirmative action from the outset was “remedial,” intended to remedy disadvantages that black Americans and their children might face (such as lacking college-educated grandparents, ...

SOUTHFIED – On Feb. 15, LGBT community leaders will join civil rights activists in a town hall meeting about the importance of affirmative action. Titled, "The Promise of Equality: Affirmative Action ...

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