Prop 16 proponents were most aghast at the “overrepresentation” of Americans of Asian descent, especially at California’s most selective public universities. In other words, they felt there ...

Voters reject Prop. 16, which would have allowed affirmative action policies in California Proposition 16 would allow public universities, including UCLA, above, to reinstate affirmation action ...

Students rally at UCLA in support of Proposition 16. Proposition 16 would overturn California’s ban on affirmative action, potentially creating opportunities for Latino, Black, Asian and women ...

Californians for Equal Rights, the campaign opposing Proposition 16, did not respond to an interview request. A survey this month from the Public Policy Institute of California found 48 percent of ...

Such is the case with Proposition 16, which would reverse a ban on considering race, ... California had accepted more than 4.2 million vote-by-mail ballots as of Monday.

In a year that will no doubt be remembered as much for racial justice issues as the coronavirus pandemic, it's perhaps no surprise that affirmative action has ended up on California's 2020 ballot ...

Proposition 16 took the form of a constitutional amendment that would have repealed the highly controversial Proposition 209, which was passed in 1996, from the California Constitution.

Opponents of Proposition 16 are staking their campaign on a bet that California’s electorate hasn’t moved as much as its political leaders have toward supporting affirmative action in the ...

Prop. 16 was designed to repeal Proposition 209, which California voters approved in 1996. That measure prohibited considerations of race, ethnicity and gender in those public fields.

California voters next month will decide whether to bring back affirmative policies in hiring and university admissions through a proposition that would repeal the state’s ban on race and gender ...

The fall campaign to repeal California’s ban on affirmative action is a testament to the tectonic shift in the state’s politics since the 1990s — and a test of how far left its voters have ...