Affirmative Action Foes Push Ballot Initiatives

Sixteen months after voters in Michigan voted to kill affirmative action in the public sphere, Ward Connerly is leading efforts in five more states to ban the practice. Foes of affirmative action, which is meant to address current and historical inequities based on race and gender, delivered 128,744 signatures to Colorado authorities earlier this month. Similar organizations in Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are circulating petitions as civil rights groups and educators are mobilizing to defeat the measures.


The Washington Post reports.