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Trump’s attack on DEI on might affect White male college students the most

Following President Trump’s sweeping executive orders in January, which called for the removal of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, there may be an unintended backlash to the policy, especially on college campuses. While much of the president’s feelings regarding DEI pointed toward race when it came to college admissions, higher education and admissions experts suggest the ban on DEI is likely to affect another underrepresented group of college applicants: men, and in particular, White men. At Brown University, according to […]

todayDecember 6, 2025

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AT&T becomes latest company to announce end to DEI programs

After several corporations announced they were ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, U.S. wireless carrier AT&T is the latest corporation to enact such a move. FCC Chair Brendan Carr said AT&T’s letter on Tuesday confirmed its previously announced commitment to ending its DEI-related policies, writing that the company “does not and will not have any roles focused on DEI.” “The legal landscape governing diversity, equity, and inclusion (‘DEI’) policies and programs has changed,” the company wrote in its letter. “We […]

todayDecember 4, 2025

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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 […]

todayNovember 14, 2025

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Ex-Trump White House official calls Karine Jean-Pierre ‘incompetent’ and proof ‘DEI doesn’t work’

Karine Jean-Pierre was personally attacked on CNN by former White House official Katie Miller, who called the former White House press secretary “incompetent” and proof that “DEI doesn’t work.” Jean-Pierre has been in the news a lot lately due to several interviews promoting her new post-White House book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.” The book details Jean-Pierre’s historic run as the first Black and LGBTQ+ White House press secretary, and what she describes […]

todayOctober 29, 2025 1

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‘It puts a target on our back’: Trump’s war on DEI and beards in military further ostracizes Black service members

The Trump administration’s war on DEI is having a chilling effect on Black military service members, as advocates warn it’s part of a broader objective to exclude Black Americans from every corner of the federal government. Last week, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered highly politicized speeches before the military’s top generals and admirals. They doubled down on their belief that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies lower the standard of so-called “fitness” and “preparedness” for the U.S. […]

todayOctober 8, 2025

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Nick Fuentes called Candace Owens a ‘Uncle Tom’ ‘DEI hire’ before Charlie Kirk’s death— here’s what it reveals about right-wing infighting

Charlie Kirk’s death in Utah on September 10 has sparked a tremendous amount of political discussion around “free speech” and “differing opinions.” While the narrative put forth by some is that there has been some mainstream jubilation and celebration by liberals because of the death of the controversial right-wing personality, the truth is the vast majority of people—even those who stood in direct opposition to nearly every view held by Kirk—have condemned the killing as tragic and senseless. Everybody from […]

todaySeptember 19, 2025

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Nancy Mace tells DC Mayor Bowser to ‘be quiet,’ calls her ‘slick’ in testy exchange over DEI & defining ‘what is a woman?’

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., got testy with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on crime and safety in the District of Columbia. On the heels of President Donald Trump‘s federal “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital, which included the deployment of the National Guard and seizing partial control of local police, House Republicans sought to use the hearing to illuminate what they see as ineffective leadership by Democrats. Mace, a controversial conservative firebrand […]

todaySeptember 18, 2025

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Trump signs executive order targeting his latest DEI victim: ‘Woke AI’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting “woke AI,” expanding his systematic assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI. Trump signed the order on Wednesday at an AI Summit in Washington, D.C. “The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models,” Trump said during his nearly one-hour remarks, in which he also vilified former Presidents Barack Obama and “absolutely terrible” Joe Biden, whose executive order on implementing racial equity in AI industries was “proudly […]

todayJuly 23, 2025

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Ayanna Pressley introduces bill to restore Biden-era DEI orders, calls for ‘Third Reconstruction’

As President Donald Trump‘s executive grip on DEI puts both the public and private sectors in a tight chokehold, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., on Wednesday introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would restore what advocates say are major setbacks to closing social and economic gaps for Black and other marginalized communities. “Their rollbacks have been swift and deep over the last six months, and all marginalized people are feeling the impacts,” Pressley told theGrio. She […]

todayJuly 23, 2025