The History of Affirmative Action in America

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Race conscious affirmative action did not create the diverse campuses that colleges and many students wanted to see in the first place. Now with race conscious affirmative action off the table, colleges are going to have to work really hard to get the diverse campuses they say they want. Achieving this on a national scale is going to require a huge push.

Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African operations bring. The striking down of affirmative-action university-admissions policies in America may counterintuitively spur more-progressive and more-efficient alternatives (9:56). And the reinvention (again) of a beloved Chinese sweet treat (17:08).

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