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News Articles: DEI

Texas A&M University in College Station.

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  • Education

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.

January 30, 2026
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
The staff of Chicago Women in Trades lead a parade of female construction workers at the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in Chicago on Sept. 20, 2025.

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  • Politics

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.

November 19, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
A federal judge has ordered books about gender and race be returned to the shelves at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan.

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  • Books

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.

October 21, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Candace Byrdsong Williams has been a manager, a director, and a "global head" of diversity for large and small employers, mostly in the tech industry, since 2007. She was laid off last August and she has seen companies abruptly take down job postings for anything diversity-related.

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  • Business

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.

May 27, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
The Verizon logo is displayed on the exterior of a Verizon store. The FCC approved its $20 billion deal to buy Frontier Communications, a day after Verizon told the U.S. regulator that it would end many of its diversity-related policies.

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  • Business

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.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
President Trump arrives to speak on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center on April 29 in Warren, Mich.

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  • Politics

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.

April 30, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon, have said repeatedly that they want to send education "back to the states." But in recent lawsuits, the administration is accused of doing the opposite: wielding the power of the federal government to tell schools what they can and cannot teach.<br>

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  • Education

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.

April 26, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Students walk to their buses at the end of the school day in Minneapolis, Minn. Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin are among the states pushing back on the U.S. Education Department's DEI directive.

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  • Education

With federal funding on the line, school leaders weigh Trump DEI order

The Trump administration has told states they have until April 24 to promise to end DEI programs in K-12 schools, or risk losing federal dollars.

April 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Army Corp of Cadets march on the field before the Army/Navy game on Dec. 14, 2024 in Landover, Md.

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  • Politics

U.S. Army libraries target books with a focus on DEI or 'gender ideology' for removal

Books "overtly promoting DEI, gender ideology, and critical race theory" are under new scrutiny following a memo issued by acting Assistant Secretary of the Army Derrick Anderson.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman
Bernice King daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a news conference at the King Jr Center Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

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

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints. King is the CEO of The King Center and the youngest daughter of civil rights leaders The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

April 11, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Sherrell Pyatt (left) and Mahri Stainnak were removed from their federal government positions soon after President Trump signed two executive orders ending diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) efforts in the federal government. That's despite the fact that they were not working in DEIA offices at the time of their dismissals.

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  • Politics

They had left their DEI roles. Trump still fired them

The Trump administration is firing hundreds and perhaps thousands of federal workers as part of a crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Many of the fired weren't in DEI jobs.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants

By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Christina Gatti
NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February.

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  • Space

NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon

In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The campus of Yale University seen in New Haven, Conn. Yale is one of 45 colleges that are under investigation for allegedly engaging in "race-exclusionary practices."

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  • Education

How the Ph.D. Project, and 45 colleges, became a target of the Trump administration

For about 30 years, the Ph.D. Project has supported students from underrepresented groups who are earning doctoral degrees in business. Now, it's attracted the attention of the Trump administration.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
Volunteers Olly De Almeida (left), Jordan Bordenave (right) and Rosemary White (far right) plant a tree in front of Tribble Condor's (center) house in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The project was funded by a federal grant terminated in February.

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  • Climate

Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

March 22, 2025
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By:
  • Eva Tesfaye
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