Fisher v. Texas and the Future of Affirmative Action

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The Challenges and Opportunities of Diversities

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Building One Ohio: History, Challenges, and Opportunity for Ohio's Suburbs

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Integration and the Opportunity Gap

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Narrating Detroit

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The Many Faces of Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in the case of Fisher v. Texas , which deals with the undergraduate admissions policy at the University of Texas. The policy, which some call “the Texas affirmative action plan,” is designed to promote...

Civil Rights Today: The Landmark Case of Adkins et. al. v. Morgan Stanley

On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley in what may become the most important civil rights case in a generation. If successful, the implications of this suit are profound and the impact could be staggering...

Video: john a. powell lecture at Wayne State University

On November 13, 2012, at the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, john a. powell discussed and read from his book, Racing to Justice, touching on themes of the othering process, the unconscious as social, race as a practice of...

Fisher v. Texas: What to Expect in Oral Argument

October 9, 2012 By Stephen Menendian Fisher v. Texas is perhaps the most consequential case on the Supreme Court’s docket this year, and will determine whether the University of Texas’ efforts to promote diversity and increase educational opportunity...

Structural Fairness & Targeted Universalism: Reflections on Detroit

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