McDonald's said it will revise a program that awards scholarships to Latino and Hispanic students to eliminate any eligibility criteria based on applicants' race or ethnicity, to settle a lawsuit by a group opposed to affirmative action.

To settle a conservative group’s discrimination lawsuit, McDonald’s said it will no longer require Hispanic heritage for students who apply to its decades-old Hispanic college scholarship program.

McDonald’s said Friday it is changing — but not eliminating — a scholarship program for Latino students after it was sued by a group that opposes affirmative action. McDonald’s HACER National Scholarship Program,

McDonald's has been making the headlines time and again. Between new releases and collaborations, the global food chain has also been in the middle of controversies.

The fast food giant agreed to drop a requirement that at least one of an applicant’s parents be of Latino or Hispanic heritage.

McDonald’s Corp. is settling a lawsuit alleging that a college scholarship program aimed at people of Latino origin is discriminatory by changing some of the criteria to qualify, with the burger chain saying the adjustments were needed to preserve the initiative.