Affirmative action
Designer Angela Brito poses for a photo during an interview in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. A Rio de Janeiro-based designer participating in this year’s Sao Paulo Fashion Week, Brito, moved to Brazil from Cape Verde more than two decades ago. Her collection this year is called “Identity,” and blends traditional woven cloth from her home country with more cosmopolitan styles. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Fashion-forward: Affirmative action hits Brazil's runways

By David Biller And Mauricio Savarese Nov. 08, 2020 10:04 AM EST

FILE - In this June 10, 2020, file photo, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, left, receives congratulations from fellow Assembly members Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, center, and Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, after the Assembly approved her measure to place a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3, 2020 ballot to let voters decide if the state should overturn its ban on affirmative action programs, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A national awakening on race has driven a well-funded campaign in California to reinstate affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and college admissions. Voters are deciding Tuesday whether to allow the nation's most populated state to grant preferential treatment based on race and gender. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Politically liberal California rejects affirmative action

By Janie Har Nov. 04, 2020 03:20 AM EST

The Latest: California affirmative action measure trailing

Nov. 03, 2020 10:31 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the California election (all times local): 1:10 a.m. A ballot measure to reinstate...

Voters sit in socially distant chairs before being called up to receive their ballots and vote at the Nevada County Fairgrounds vote center on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Grass Valley, Calif. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
Democrat Joe Biden wins California’s 55 electoral votes

By Adam Beam Nov. 03, 2020 12:06 AM EST

FILE - Roberta Huss, who identified herself as a proud Dakota Sioux woman, raises her fist as she joins others during a demonstration Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Several organizations joined together at Pioneer Park to speak out against police brutality and discrimination against people of color. The climate of racial reckoning that has emerged in the United States since Floyd's death has reinvigorated Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and other people of color to fight back against the racism and discrimination they also have experienced for decades. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Floyd’s death sparks new activism among communities of color

By Felicia Fonseca, Deepti Hajela And Janie Har Aug. 25, 2020 10:40 AM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, Ohio State Representative Stephanie Howse (D), of District 11, is interviewed following a legislative session at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The killing of George Floyd has sparked broader discussions of race and discrimination in state legislatures across the country. Affirmative action, reparations and designating racism as a public health crisis are generating debate and a fair amount of controversy. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Lawmakers use protest momentum to push state racial reforms

By Adam Beam And Farnoush Amiri Jun. 20, 2020 09:21 AM EDT

Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, right, receives congratulations from Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, after the Assembly approved her measure to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot to let voters decide if the state should overturn its ban on affirmative action programs, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
California affirmative action vote prompts 'tough' debate

By Adam Beam Jun. 11, 2020 01:15 AM EDT

In this March 31, 2020, photo, Kyle Navarro poses in San Francisco. The school nurse was recently unlocking his bicycle when an older white man called him a racial slur and spat at him. Asian Americans are using social media to organize and fight back against racially motivated attacks during the coronavirus pandemic, which the FBI predicts will increase as infections grow. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Asian Americans use social media to mobilize against attacks

By Terry Tang Apr. 04, 2020 11:07 AM EDT