Political activist Ward Connerly said he makes “no apology for saying that I am a guy who belongs to the camp of color-blindness.” In a Wednesday lecture hosted by the Cornell Republicans, the former ...

As Ward Connerly prepares initiatives to abolish race-based affirmative action in five more states, New America Foundation fellow Gregory Rodriguez, no fan of Connerly's movement, has published an eye ...

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A former colleague of Ward Connerly, one of the nation’s leading campaigners against affirmative action, claims he has exploited his nonprofit advocacy group to benefit himself and close associates, ...

The man who helped to dismantle affirmative action policies in the country's largest university system said today that racial preferences go against the ``self-evident'' truth outlined in the ...

Ward Connerly’s latest race-related ballot initiative, Proposition 54 on California’s Oct. 7 ballot, would prohibit the state from gathering racial information about students and employees.

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COLUMBIA - Amid a legal fight over the ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment, conservative California activist Ward Connerly is visiting Missouri. Connerly is trying to drum up ...

DETROIT -- A feisty 29-year-old white woman and a pugnacious 67-year-old black man are performing two services this autumn for Michigan and the nation. Their Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) is ...

Leaders of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) happily sent out a release Sunday evening lauding that "organizers of the so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, led by ...

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When Ward Connerly took the podium in the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater last night, he started out by describing his long days battling the numerous, and often vehement, proponents of affirmative ...