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News Articles: diversity

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
NPR Chief Diversity Officer Keith Woods announced his retirement on Wednesday. He has been at NPR since 2010.

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  • Media

NPR's chief diversity officer to retire, with DEI in the political spotlight

Chief Diversity Officer Keith Woods announced he'll retire after a 46-year career in journalism and 15 years at NPR, as the issue he has championed takes center stage in political discourse.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
The entry to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
A Walmart logo is displayed outside of a Walmart store in Walpole, Mass.

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  • National

Walmart becomes latest — and biggest — company to roll back its DEI policies

Conservative groups have filed lawsuits against workplace diversity initiatives that prioritize historically marginalized groups.

November 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

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  • National

Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on 'woke' appears to be losing steam in Florida

A federal court recently blocked most of a key DeSantis measure, the Stop WOKE Act. Courts have ruled against a number of the governor's conservative initiatives.

March 16, 2024
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By:
  • Greg Allen
Scholastic says it will stop offering the controversial collection of race- and gender-related titles at middle school book fairs starting in January.

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  • Education

Scholastic backtracks, saying it will stop separating diverse books for fairs in 2024

Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.

October 25, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Atlanta based band The Rack practice for their upcoming tour and performance at Afropunk on July 26, 2023. The lead singer is wearinga black shirt which says the rack, behind her is a drummer to her left is a bass player and to the right a guitarist. They're all bathed in purple light.

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  • Music Features

'I want to be their new favorite': Atlanta punk music label signs diverse group of inaugural artists

Punk Black is an Atlanta-based organization working to shine a light on people of color in the rock music scene. This summer, Punk Black launched a record label and signed its first three bands: Howling Star, Hijas de la Muerte, and The Rack. 

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
C.J. Pearson of Georgia, Alyssa Rinelli of Wisconsin and Brilyn Hollyhand of Alabama are working to help the Republican Party mobilize more younger voters.

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  • Politics

These young Republicans want the GOP to do more to recruit young voters

Younger voters favor Democrats by a wide margin, but the Republican Party is trying to change that with the RNC's new youth advisory council and other efforts to reach young voters where they are.

August 30, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon

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  • News

New Georgia teacher prep rules scrap ‘diversity,’ other ‘woke’ words

Legal limits on how Georgia teachers can approach potentially divisive subjects are spreading from elementary and secondary school classrooms to university lecture halls.

August 14, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Governor Deals Announces the Second Round winners of Innovation in Teaching Competition.

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  • News

Georgia K-12 panel could soon erase ‘woke’ words like ‘diverse’ from training rules

What’s the difference between diversity and difference? Would you rather your child’s teacher provide equity, inclusiveness and social justice, or fair access, opportunity and advancement for all students?

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Dec. 21, 2022. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/ Reuters

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: What to expect in the 2023 legislative session; January 6th interviews

Thursday on Political Rewind: The January 6th Committee pushed the final release of its report, instead releasing interview transcripts with subjects ranging from Proud Boys to Trump officials. 

On our last live show of the year, our panel looks ahead to what you can expect in the 2023 legislative session.

December 22, 2022
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  • Donna Lowry ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
The cast of Showtime's <em>Yellowjackets </em>is mostly female.

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  • Arts & Life

There are more women on TV but ageism persists, says new study

Streamers and broadcasters are putting slightly more women in front of and behind the camera according to Boxed In, an annual study. But ageism persists.

October 19, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Greater Georgia, a organization founded in 2021 by former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler to promote conservive candidates, has targeted Hispanic voters with roundtable discussions and events like a July 28 voter registration drive at a Supermercado in DeKalb County.

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  • News

The variety of voter groups has grown in Georgia, reflecting an increasingly diverse electorate

Voting advocacy groups in Georgia are working to mobilize a disengaged and diverse group of voters for the upcoming midterm elections that will determine not just leadership of the state government but could also once again decide control in Congress.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Archie Panjabi at the Emmy Awards in 2010. Panjabi, a non-Muslim actress, played a Muslim character in the 2018 British limited series <em>Next of Kin</em>, a show discussed in a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

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  • Arts & Life

There are barely any Muslims on popular TV series, a new study says

When Muslims do appear, they tend to be violent Middle Eastern men, a new study has found after surveying 200 popular series from the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere.

September 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Shaunti Meyer, medical director at the STRIDE Community Health Center in Aurora, Colo., says she discloses her sexual orientation to patients when it feels appropriate.

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  • Health Care

Some physicians are uneasy as Colorado collects providers' diversity data

To advance health equity, the state is requiring insurers that offer public option plans to collect demographic data on providers, including race and sexual orientation, raising privacy concerns.

April 25, 2022
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  • Markian Hawryluk
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