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Jeff Sessions’ Reactionary Attack on Affirmative Action Is Doomed to Fail
Richard Thompson Ford
Aug 03, 2017
4:40 PM
Why Banning Dreadlocks at Work Isn’t Racially Discriminatory, Even If It Should Be Illegal
Richard Thompson Ford
Oct 10, 2016
5:50 AM
The Secret Danger in the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling
Richard Thompson Ford
June 27, 2013
3:40 PM
Affirmative Action Will Live Even if the Supreme Court Kills It
Richard Thompson Ford
Oct 12, 2012
1:21 PM
How We Can Break Judges’ Stranglehold on the Constitution
Richard Thompson Ford
June 20, 2012
6:06 PM
Why the Supreme Court Should Never Have Taken the Texas Affirmative Action Case
Richard Thompson Ford
Feb 29, 2012
7:19 AM
Why Civil Rights Lawsuits Are Becoming Irrelevant in the Fight for Social Justice
Richard Thompson Ford
Nov 03, 2011
10:18 AM
Why It’s Not Always Best To Treat Education as a Civil Right.
Richard Thompson Ford
Nov 02, 2011
11:50 AM
How the Civil Rights Movement Led to a Ban on Ladies’ Nights.
Richard Thompson Ford
Nov 01, 2011
4:26 PM
Wal-Mart lawsuit: The Supreme Court’s most important case this year.
Richard Thompson Ford
March 28, 2011
1:49 PM
Rick Snyder plan: Is it legal for Michigan and other states to take over local governments?
Richard Thompson Ford
March 15, 2011
4:19 PM
Stuart Buck has a startling explanation for Acting White.
Richard Thompson Ford
July 05, 2010
6:47 AM
Why lawsuits based on looks discrimination—even good ones—are a bad idea.
Richard Thompson Ford
June 11, 2010
5:33 PM
Black firefighter Michael Briscoe is suing New Haven.
Richard Thompson Ford
Oct 23, 2009
7:12 AM
A primer on the word racism.
Richard Thompson Ford
Sept 30, 2009
12:39 PM
The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Richard Thompson Ford
July 23, 2009
3:31 PM
The damage done by the Supreme Court in the New Haven firefighters case.
Richard Thompson Ford
July 02, 2009
1:19 PM
If Frank Ricci loses his discrimination claim, blame the Supreme Court’s conservatives.
Richard Thompson Ford
June 16, 2009
1:57 PM
Why Sotomayor rejected the New Haven firefighters’ claim.
Richard Thompson Ford
May 27, 2009
10:49 AM
Why are there are so few black coaches in college football?
Richard Thompson Ford
Dec 26, 2008
7:27 AM
