Recent Affirmative Action Articles

Contra Costa Times - He's still raising the ire of right-wingers with his bold decisions, including striking down a state initiative that banned affirmative action (leading Tom DeLay to call for his impeachment), requiring the tuna-fishing industry to stop killing ...

Vancouver Sun - The tacit agreement gave the majority ethnic Malays, with 60 per cent of the population, dominant political power and the benefits of affirmative action policies, while the ethnic Chinese, representing 25 per cent of the country's 27 million people ...

Turkish Weekly - First, it should be introduced not “in addition to” but largely “instead of” a variety of other policies already in place that favour women, like quotas, affirmative action, publicly supported child care facilities and care for the elderly ...

Slate - How is Obama not an unreconstructed lefty--Part III: Not only does he support charter schools, but--at least according the buried lede in the Democrats for Education Reform web site --he's willing to point out in public which major Dem interest group ...

Myrtle Beach Online - Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are making history. They are on the verge of ending affirmative action as we know it. In 2003, then Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor saved the policy for public institutions of higher learning while ...

Myrtle Beach Online - Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are making history. They are on the verge of ending affirmative action as we know it. In 2003, then Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor saved the policy for public institutions of higher learning while ...

Times Online - An award-winning BBC reporter has accused Lenny Henry of insulting her white colleagues by calling for affirmative action employment polices at the corporation. The comedian claimed that racism was still rife within broadcasting and asked why ethnic ...

Chicago Tribune - But for much of the rest of the country, people are more skeptical that high-flying talk about diversity and unity, married to fairly conventional liberal policies on affirmative action, immigration and the like, will do much to solve the real ...

Donga.com - The National Assembly’s National Defense Committee passed a bill yesterday, which will grant military veterans additional points during hiring. But women’s rights organizations and activist groups for the disabled are showing strong opposition to ...

Kansas City Star - To know affirmative action’s importance, people must see what we’ll lose if it goes away. Ward Connerly is white conservatives’ black champion as head of the American Civil Rights Institute. What a misnomer. Connerly has led anti-affirmative ...