When I visited Mexico for the first time, I remember thinking that it was not the third-world country that everyone had described to me. After a couple of days there and a little more venturing into Mexico, I realized that it was really everything that had been described. While we were in the vacati...

Affirmative action is the set of public policies and initiatives designed to help eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Affirmative action was set into place during the 1960's by President Johnson as a way of redressing discrimin...