Diversity, equity and inclusion

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is completely surrounded as he leads a civil rights march in Boston, April 23, 1965, en route to historic Boston Common where he will address a crowd. (AP Photo, file)

Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people are expected to gather at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event.
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President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

19 states sue Trump administration over push to end diversity programs in public schools

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rulings coming fast and furious in lawsuits over Trump’s policies on immigration, elections and DEI

April 24
President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judges blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs

April 24
This July 2023 photo provided by Ashley Dayer shows Dayer in the Adirondacks, N.Y. (Ashley Dayer). Adirondacks in 2023

Trump science cuts target bird feeder research, AI literacy work and more

April 24

Trump’s attack on diversity take center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands will gather Saturday at the Boston Common to honor the historic event. King’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, will lead the rally.
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Tuskegee Airman, 101, laments prejudice as Trump tries to end DEI

Trump says he’s stamped out diversity and inclusion initiatives, brags about gender policy

Economic Blackout: Will a 24 hour boycott make a difference?

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A Target store in Emeryville, Calif., Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Pastor calls for ‘full Target boycott’ over concerns about diversity, equity, inclusion

April 23
The Tennessee State Capitol is seen Feb. 10, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after passing bans on DEI initiatives

April 23
Case Western Reserve University student. Justen Pippens poses for a photo in the student union at the school In Cleveland Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

DEI rollbacks hit campus support systems for students of color

April 22
Sarah Hinger, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks to reporters Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Concord, N.H., where a federal judge is deciding whether to temporarily block the Trump administration's guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in schools. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)

A New Hampshire judge is deciding whether to block Trump’s anti-DEI directive to schools

April 17
Al Sharpton speaks during a ceremony in celebration of Roberta Flack's life at The Abyssinian Baptist Church on Monday, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Al Sharpton calls meeting with Target’s CEO amid DEI backlash ‘very constructive and candid’

April 17
Visitors stop at the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump administration takes aim at Harvard’s international students and tax-exempt status

April 18

Black residents get most of the pollution but few of the jobs from chemical industry, study finds

April 16
Cadets arrive for the graduation ceremony of the U.S. Military Academy at Michie Stadium on May 27, 2023, in West Point, N.Y (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)

Army and Air Force libraries are ordered to review books for DEI material

April 16
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Federal judge blocks Labor Department from enforcing key part of Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders

April 15
Plastic bottles of Pepsi are displayed at a grocery store in New York on Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

PepsiCo agrees to meet with Al Sharpton over DEI cuts, potential boycott

April 15
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tours the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted

April 12
Fetid water pools outside a mobile home in a small mobile home park in rural Hayneville, Ala., Lowndes County, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

DOJ ends environmental justice agreement in Alabama county citing Trump

April 12
Students walk on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison between classes in Madison, Wis., Jan. 27, 2015. (M.P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Wisconsin audits find lack of tracking of DEI spending at university system and state agencies

April 11
Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a news conference at the King Jr Center Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Bernice King reflects on the Fair Housing Act, made law after her father’s killing

April 10
The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Education Department withdraws from plan to address discipline disparities for Native students

April 10
Jocelyn Samuels speaks in Seattle, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Ex-EEOC commissioner fired by Trump files lawsuit demanding reinstatement

April 9
The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Democratic-led cities and states push back on threats to cut US school funding over DEI

April 8
A previously unknown portrait, circe 1868, of abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman is unveiled at The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

National Park Service restores original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad webpage

April 8
This undated file image released by the U.S. Navy shows Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield. (U.S Navy via AP, File)

Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list

April 8
Children and their guardians leave P.S. 64 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)

NY public schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order

April 5
An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

April 5
Plastic bottles of Pepsi are displayed at a grocery store in New York on Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Al Sharpton calls on PepsiCo to restore DEI initiatives, threatens boycott

April 5
State Sen. David Lucas, D- Macon, responds directly to the comments of state Sen. Max Burns, R- Sylvania during a heated debate on HB127, a bill that prevents public schools, local education agencies, and public postsecondary institutions that receive state funds from promoting, supporting, or maintaining any programs or activities that advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP)

A Georgia bill to ban DEI in schools and colleges nears passage, even as potential effects stay hazy

April 3
President Donald Trump waves after an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says

April 3
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Community, mentors and skill-building: Experts weigh the role of employee resource groups

April 3
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels from Las Vegas to Miami on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

EEOC chief shifts focus to investigating DEI but the methods provoke an outcry

April 3
An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office

April 2
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, left, joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testifies as the House Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Judge blocks firing of intelligence agency employees who worked on DEI programs

April 1
President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Women's History Month in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Nonprofit groups and Democrats sue Trump administration over election executive order

April 1
People stroll Friday, March 21, 2025 in La Defense business district outside Paris. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla, file)

European countries resist US push to scrap diversity and inclusion initiatives

March 31
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