Discrimination

An ‘Oppressor’ Professor in California?

The Protestors wouldn’t leave the field. Football players from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California watched, confused. Their game—a nationally televised rivalry matchup—was supposed to begin. But just after the coin toss, 15 protestors stormed the 50-yard-line and ran to the center of the field.This was Saturday, October 28, 2023. Viewers watching on TV assumed the protest was about Gaza, where Israel was retaliating for Hamas’s October 7 attacks. The protestors on the Berkeley football field certainly looked like they were protesting war: They shouted wildly, hooking their arms tightly together, ignoring the police. One young man appeared to be in tears.

Power and Privilege in America’s Schools

Yiatin Chiu's 26-year-old daughter isn’t thrilled her mother is suing the New York State Department of Education.

Two Women Fight Set-Asides and Quotas

Dr. Azadeh Khatibi grew up in Tehran in the early 1980s. Her father wanted sons; he got two daughters. “He was like, ‘What is their future going to be like?’” she says.

Extreme Depths: Two Navy Divers in a New Fight

Hung Cao and Marty Hierholzer both live in Virginia, only a few hours from each other. They have different backgrounds: Hung is of Vietnamese descent; Marty is white.

For Some School Boards, Parents Are the Enemy

This year, California Legislators tried to create new criminal penalties for parents who “harass” school board officials or disrupt school board meetings.

Racial Quotas for City Contractors May Ruin This Family Business

In the mid-nineties, Jerry Thompson was headhunted for a Texas company that paid good money. He was a whiz at sales. So he moved his wife, Theresa, and two kids from Michigan to Texas.

Ending Elite Schools’ Race Obsession

Shouting could be heard just outside the Supreme Court one Thursday afternoon in June, as two groups of protestors gathered in response to the Justices’ latest ruling.

Ward Connerly’s America Is a Nation of Equals

Calm and collected, Ward Connerly sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996, where he had been summoned to give testimony in favor of the passage of Proposition 209—a California initiative that would end racial— and sex-based preferences in public schools and government institutions.

What the New Integrationists Fail to See

A liberal consensus has settled on the view that American schools must be more thoroughly integrated before black and Hispanic students can perform at the level of their white peers. The New York Times editorial board, for instance, recently described the city’s elite high schools as “profoundly segregated,” a state of affairs that calls to mind “the spirit of Jim Crow.” Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose long-form reporting on the subject earned her a MacArthur Genius Grant last year, detailed her experience as a black mother trying to find a school for her daughter in an “intensely segregated” system.

St. Louis Mom Battles Race-Conscious Education Policy

Imagine telling a nine-year-old boy he can’t continue at his elementary school because of the color of his skin. That’s a conversation St. Louis mom La’Shieka White had with her son Edmund Lee.

The City Worker v. Seattle

He watched coworkers reject white applicants to City programs because, as one colleague told him, those applicants benefited from “white privilege.”

ENVY: Education Officials Spread Poisonous Myth that Asian Students Are ‘Test-Taking Robots’

“I walked into Stuyvesant High School and I thought I was in Chinatown,” Milady Baez, then-deputy chancellor of the Department of Education in New York City, complained to colleagues at a 2018 meeting.

A Dangerous Deviation: From Equality to Equity

When Biology Professor Bret Weinstein was threatened and harassed at Evergreen State College for his opinions about diversity and inclusion on campus, he felt like he was living in some sort of dystopian nightmare.

Not Equality of Outcome, But Equal Enjoyment of Liberty

In the past few decades as the country has evolved toward equality, moves from universities like crafting admissions policies to admit only so many students of one race or shaping a company boardroom based on the sex of its members would’ve been thought reprehensible.

The Inconvenient Minority

Historically, there has been a popular image of Asian-Americans that is best described as “nerdy” and “academic.” Think Audrey Hepburn’s oversized-glasses-wearing-heavily-accented-nerdy neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany’s or the socially awkward Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles who is criticized for his foreignness.

Thomas Jefferson High School Becomes an Arena for the Battle Between Parents and Policy

The large auditorium was mostly empty when the Fairfax County School Board held its public hearing in May.

A Path Forward for Equality Under the Law

The declaration of Independence famously declared the universal principle that “all men are created equal.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Our clients never asked the elites to come save them, but the elites came anyway. From coast to coast, minorities’ unwelcome champions have been working hard to bake racial discrimination back into the law, ironically, in the name of equality.

Evaluating The 1619 Project: A Conversation with Phil Magness

In recent years, Americans are paying renewed attention and having new discussions on race, racism, and discrimination.

The Overton Window: How Crises Alter Our Perceptions of Appropriate Government Action

In 1942, the Los Angeles Times took to its editorial page to argue for the imprisonment of American citizens who looked a certain way. A racist editor hadn’t suddenly taken over the paper, and it wasn’t a commentary on crime or law and order. The remains of Pearl Harbor were still smoldering and anyone who looked Japanese was a suspect.

Racial Alchemy

As soon as she heard that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had appointed Richard Carranza as the city’s new chancellor of education, Wai Wah Chin was worried.

Families Struggle with Government-Forced, Race-Based Education

Lashawn Robinson's oldest son, Jarod, has missed out on Hartford, Connecticut’s public magnet school lottery year after year, even though the school has the space to take him. Once a student who loved school and excelled at it, years of bullying and poor education at his neighborhood school have slowly drained the boy’s academic vigor. The reason? He’s black.