Tides Foundation

Affirmative action has served as a tool to shift and strengthen power for students of color who have been historically denied access to quality education. The Supreme Court’s decision to restrict affirmative action is a devastating blow to decades of progress in the movement for racial equity and social justice.

In her dissent to the court’s majority 6-3 opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the court was “further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.”