Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has set a new agenda for an agency that long prioritized vulnerable and underserved workers.
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Planned Parenthood chapter settles with EEOC over treatment of white employees
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay $500,000 to end an investigation that found the organization’s DEI practices violated federal civil rights laws
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Texas A&M University cancels programs in women’s and gender studies
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump’s war on DEI
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump’s efforts to erase DEI.
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Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases
The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump’s executive orders.
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President Trump’s DOJ tells Rhode Island it’s under investigation
President Trump’s U.S. Justice Department notified Rhode Island on Wednesday that it is opening an investigation of whether the state engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination based on race or other protected aspects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The notification came in a letter to state Attorney General Peter Neronha […]
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Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs
“I just didn’t think it would take this long,” one veteran head of diversity, who’s been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.
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Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC’s blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal
It’s the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.
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In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies
From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here’s a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump’s second administration.
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Why judges blocked the Trump admin’s school DEI crackdown
On Thursday, three federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., said Trump’s anti-DEI efforts were on shaky legal ground.
