Affirmative Action

As affirmative action programs face their biggest threat in decades, experts say Black and Latino students would experience fewer job and financial opportunities.

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda

A campaign to reinstate affirmative action in overwhelmingly Democratic California has failed resoundingly despite having money and momentum

Prop 16 would mark a return to affirmative action in California after it was banned in 1996 when voters approved Prop 209. NBC4’s Conan Nolan explains.

University of California’s governing board voted Monday to unanimously support a measure to restore affirmative action programs and repeal a controversial statewide ban that has been blamed for a decline in diversity in the prestigious university system.

The California Senate is now considering a measure that would send to voters a repeal of Proposition 209 which banned the use of affirmative action in admission to the CSU and UC system and public contracts. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with State Senator Steven Bradford (D-South LA).