New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter Frank Ricci, the lead plaintiff in perhaps the most controversial case involving Judge Sonia Sotomayor, said Thursday that Sotomayor's rejection of his reverse discrimination claim had undermined the concept of a merit-based civil service system.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a divisive case over the role race should play in job advancement.
The political response to the Supreme Court's overturning a ruling by the woman who could be its newest member was sharply divided, with Republicans supporting the ruling while Democrats criticized it.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed varying degrees of concern Wednesday over a civil rights case brought by 20 firefighters, most of them white, who claim reverse discrimination in promotions.
More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff.
One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.
Malaysia marked 50 years of independence Friday with dances and parades in a colorful show of ethnic unity that belied worsening race relations and growing fears about eroding minority rights.
After paying more than $200 million in settlements of a series of discrimination lawsuits, Coca-Cola agreed to establish a diversity task force to ensure more minorities were represented in the company's management.
New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter Frank Ricci, the lead plaintiff in perhaps the most controversial case involving Judge Sonia Sotomayor, said Thursday that Sotomayor's rejection of his reverse discrimination claim had undermined the concept of a merit-based civil service system.
The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit, a divisive case over the role race should play in job advancement.
The political response to the Supreme Court's overturning a ruling by the woman who could be its newest member was sharply divided, with Republicans supporting the ruling while Democrats criticized it.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed varying degrees of concern Wednesday over a civil rights case brought by 20 firefighters, most of them white, who claim reverse discrimination in promotions.
More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff.
One of the things that charms me about traveling through Europe is its ethnic variety. Hop on a train and two hours later you step into a different culture, different language and different heritage.
Malaysia marked 50 years of independence Friday with dances and parades in a colorful show of ethnic unity that belied worsening race relations and growing fears about eroding minority rights.
After paying more than $200 million in settlements of a series of discrimination lawsuits, Coca-Cola agreed to establish a diversity task force to ensure more minorities were represented in the company's management.
Lawyers for two ex-Billboard magazine staffers who are suing their former employer over their May 2004 dismissal claim racial profiling took place in the offices of the music industry's oldest trade publication.
A forthcoming law review article by UCLA professor Rick Sander is causing a big stir in the legal academic community. Sander's piece in the Stanford Law Review argues that race-based affirmative action as practiced by American law schools during the past 30 years actually ends up hurting the group -- African American law students -- it is most intended to help.
The issue of race drew much attention at the last scheduled Democratic debate before the January 19 Iowa Caucuses -- the first referendum of the 2004 presidential campaign.
Companies have tried all sorts of things to improve corporate life for minority employees. Many efforts fail, but one approach has proved so successful that it should be a staple at every concerned...
A group of scientists from Lucent Technologies' vaunted Bell Labs are eating lunch and talking about the most delicate subject in corporate America, or anywhere else in America: race. Over sandwich...
It's known as "The Crisis" around Texaco's sprawling office headquarters in a leafy suburb north of New York City, which is certainly apropos. It was the embarrassing and expensive saga that forced...
Berlinda Fontenot-Jamerson didn't plan on spending her entire career at Pacific Enterprises when she joined the utility as a clerk-typist. In fact, she was studying to be a social worker and intend...
The racial-preference policies lumped together under the label "affirmative action" seem to be reaching the end of their collective road. The Republican majority in Congress and most GOP presidenti...
MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...
WHY can't we all get along?'' Rodney King's question still resonates six months after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers who beat him, a verdict that triggered the worst riot in the ...
Stephen Carter was studying law in 1978 when the Supreme Court's ruling in the celebrated Bakke case imposed limits on affirmative action. At the time, he and other black students at Yale felt that...
Being somewhat prejudiced against conspiracy theories, we were a bit slow to embrace one that surfaced last year in the course of the never-ending racial rows over college admissions. The theory pe...
By way of elaborating the headline, we begin obliquely with the saga of Kateri Tekakwitha. A Mohawk Indian maiden born in 1656, Kateri was exposed to Christian doctrine by Jesuit missionaries and b...
Whenever groups of people take it upon themselves to make race important, the search for power is behind that. This is the real problem. White slave traders made race important -- made whites super...
BY SOME YARDSTICKS, affirmative action could be judged a failure. Twenty-five years have passed since the two words entered the law's vocabulary, yet only one black leads a FORTUNE 500 or Service 5...
It had to happen, so now it is happening. Racial preference in college admissions, legitimized by the Supreme Court's infamous Bakke decision in 1978, is now being used against the wrong people. Ev...
The arresting new idea out there is something called ''cultural literacy,'' and it is all spelled out in a best-selling book by E. D. Hirsch Jr. bearing that title and subtitled What Every American...
Given the magnitude involved, Nexis produced an answer with astonishing swiftness -- about 20 seconds, we estimated. To be sure, our favorite electronic database may have had a lot of practice deal...
We have closely studied the opinions delivered by five different Supreme Court factions in the case of Wygant et al. v. Jackson Board of Education et al., and you know what? We still cannot figure ...
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