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Philadelphia ends DEI standards for business contracts amid Trump’s federal ban and people are reacting

Philadelphia is ending its DEI standards for government contracts with businesses throughout the city, ending a decades-old practice as public and private sectors grapple with President Donald Trump‘s crusade against diversity programs. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the administration of Mayor Cherelle Parker, the city’s first woman and Black female mayor, will no longer enforce its goal of ensuring 35% of contracts go to minority, women, or disabled-owned enterprises. The government contracts are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The […]

November 14, 2025 1

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Trump’s travel ban disrupts critical treatment for sick Haiti children in need of surgery

The ramifications of the Trump administration’s travel ban on 12 Black and brown countries have been swift, including in Haiti, where the lives of sick children hang in the balance. The International Cardiac Alliance, which has sent more than 100 Haitian children with serious cardiac conditions to the United States for heart surgery, tells NBC News that Trump’s ban, which went into effect on Monday, will stall or cancel lifesaving procedures for at least a dozen children or young adults. […]

June 9, 2025 1

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‘Insatiable hate’: Advocates warn of deaths amid Trump’s ‘bigoted’ travel ban against Black and brown countries

Advocates and elected officials forcefully condemned President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting a dozen Black and brown nations. Citing national security concerns, Trump’s Wednesday proclamation fully restricts or limits entry into the United States for nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., co-chairs of the House Haiti Caucus, slammed the administration’s “bigoted” travel ban as an “unambiguously xenophobic […]

June 6, 2025 2

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Reps. Pressley, Brown push FDA to finalize a bill to ban harmful chemical in hair relaxers

U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, and Nydia Velásquez, D-N.Y., are urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move swiftly on advancing an already proposed federal rule that would ban a harmful chemical found in some hair products. “Ensuring that regulatory actions align with the best interests of public health remain the goal and we encourage promptly finalizing the proposed rule,” said the letter to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, urging him to follow through on a March […]

April 9, 2025

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On National Girls & Women in Sports Day, Trump moves to ban trans athletes

While marking the 39th annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day, President Donald Trump chose a controversial way to recognize it. Since returning to office, Trump has signed a series of executive orders, his latest one taking direct aim at the transgender community and women’s sports. On Wednesday afternoon at the White House, Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” “The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of […]

February 5, 2025

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US Air Force reverses course after removing Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump DEI ban backlash

The uproar over the US Air Force’s removal of a video of Tuskegee Airmen from its curriculum in response to a DEI ban has made its way to the highest levels of government causing them to about-face. Now the US Air Force says it will return the video about the famous Black World War II pilots back to the curriculum for service members, with confirmation coming from the new incoming defense secretary Pete Hegseth. “This will not stand,’ Hegseth wrote […]

January 27, 2025

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Biden won’t enforce TikTok ban, official says, leaving fate of app to Trump

President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a U.S. official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump. Congress last year, in a law signed by Biden, required that TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance divest the company by Jan. 19, a day before the presidential inauguration. The official said the outgoing administration was leaving the implementation […]

January 17, 2025

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President-elect Trump considers executive order to save TikTok from US ban: report

President-elect Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order on day one of his administration to suspend the upcoming ban on TikTok in the U.S., the Washington Post reported. A law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April 2024 mandates the shutdown of TikTok if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell the video app and goes into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19. The order from Trump would reportedly extend the enforcement of the TikTok ban […]

January 15, 2025 1

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Trump asks Supreme Court to delay TikTok ban so he can weigh in after he takes office

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national […]

December 28, 2024