"Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination," Carr told Bloomberg in an interview.
James Ryan declared that while he was committed to the university and inclined to fight, he could not in good conscience push back just to save his job.
President Trump’s approach to dismantling DEI initiatives is aggressive and damaging, potentially jeopardizing the fundamental achievements of civil-rights legislation while still challenging flawed affirmative action practices.
It begs the question, what does DEI mean to the issuers of this notice? Does it mean the term 'structural racism'? Does it mean 'Black Americans'? Does it mean that we can no longer do rigorous science to really understand why the devastating burden of health disparities exist in this country and around the globe?
"I think some brands are still confusing DEI with diversity," says Edgar Hernandez... marketing to diverse audiences isn't about politics. It's about growth."
"This is how you cancel an agreement aimed at rebuilding the sewage infrastructure in an impoverished county in Alabama. You declare that agreement was cancelled because it was an 'illegal' DEI arrangement because it was aimed at helping Black people, and that's all you need to say."
"Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities," the agency's director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, wrote.
That's it's astonishing, not surprising. Of course, they don't like the fact that we're ripping DEI out of the military and making it colorblind and merit-based.
While I can't give any individual nonprofit or company legal advice, itâs really important for organizations to seek their own counsel during this volatile moment.
Robby Starbuck effectively pressured companies to abandon DEI initiatives, claiming that these programs have been distorted by activists, creating division rather than unity.