California’s constitutional ban on discrimination was passed in 1996 as Proposition 209, and has since withstood challenges ...

The proposition intended to prohibit undocumented immigrants from accessing state services including public education and health care.

Spread the loveIndividuals in California will be able to vote on whether or not to abolish the state’s restriction on affirmative action in 2021. This prohibition, called Proposition 209, was enacted ...

Getting rid of Proposition 209, she said, would wrongly eliminate a ban on bias that has helped California flourish. Opponent Senator Melissa Melendez (R-Murrieta) provoked controversy on the Senate ...

Prop. 16 called for the language of 1996’s Proposition 209, which banned affirmative action in California, to be removed from the state’s constitution. In 1996, Prop. 209 which banned affirmative ...

Last week’s election victory of Donald Trump, a foe of affirmative action, is heightening fears that race-based programs ...

Proposition 209, caused freshman students from underrepresented minorities to “cascade into lower quality colleges.” “When California banned race-based affirmative action, that pushed ...

“Proposition 209 has forced California public institutions to try to address racial inequality without factoring in race, even where allowed by federal law. The diversity of our university and higher ...

Now comes next Tuesday. Trump is a hair’s breadth from returning to the White House despite being a convicted felon for ...

Just 55.8 percent of all California households own their own homes. Anyone can tell you it’s a challenge and a half to buy a ...

But it could be challenged under California’s 1996 proposition 209, which eliminated affirmative action in the public sphere. “There are some things that we would not be able to advance,” due to ...

Some cases making their way through federal courts could have catastrophic consequences for minority-owned businesses that do work for the federal government.