A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school ...

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The book made the Thernstroms intellectual heroes ... sparring with President Bill Clinton in an Oval Office debate about race and affirmative action, and later championed alternative approaches ...

There was a slight decline in the numbers of Black students in Harvard University's freshman class, which follows a Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action in higher education ...

How the racial makeup of colleges changed after the affirmative action ruling Universities are disclosing the racial makeup of the first class of students admitted after the Supreme Court ...