Affirmative action is a political tool used to prevent or challenge social inequality for those groups in a position of inferiority, both as a consequence of discrimination being suffered and as a result of past discrimination whose effects are still...

Affirmative action, also referred to as positive and reverse discrimination, describes the deliberate policy of giving preferential treatment to some groups in a society on the grounds that they have hitherto been disadvantaged either by governmental...

The provision of resources to mitigate educational or other disadvantage caused by social and/or economic deprivation. This is often known as compensatory education. The Plowden Report recommended the identification of inner city districts which were...

Granting the minorities of society enhanced access to education and jobs in an attempt to reduce overall discrimination against them. This approach to helping the disadvantaged is deeply resented by the well-qualified applicants who are rejected and by...

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Affirmative action programs have on balance been useful vehicles for improving the lot of a people that have been discriminated against for hundreds of years. The argument that affirmative action amounts to reverse discrimination is often made, but rarely supported by actual evidence. ...

Ursula V. Battle Baltimore Afro-American 02-11-1995 On Affirmative Action. Already under attack by both White and Black conservatives, the concept of affirmative action faces a fresh assault from the newly empowered Republican leadership in Congress which views it as a "hot button...

A lawsuit that prompted a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision over affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan was settled Wednesday, concluding a nearly decade-old legal battle.The university will pay $10,000 each to plaintiffs Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher to cover miscellaneous costs,...

A conservative, student-run journal at Tufts university published a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed black students and campus affirmative action policies, then issued an apology after some students called on the school to stop funding the journal.The carol, entitled, "O Come All Ye Black Folk,"...

In 1996 voters in California approved the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), a measure that forbids the use of race, gender, or ethnicity as criteria in state hiring or public university admissions. No longer would businesses and universities be...

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Does affirmative action help protect the law?

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