Tag: Diversity Equity and Inclusion

DeSantis Signs Bills Cutting DEI Spending From Florida Universities

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has just signed bills that will cut the legs out from under woke education programs at state colleges and universities. In a signing ceremony on May 15 at Sarasota’s New College—whose recent reform has been a hallmark of DeSantis’s anti-woke campaign—the governor signed one bill, Senate Bill 266, that eliminates funding…


America’s Most ‘Woke’ Employers: Here’s How Disney Ranked

On Forbes’ 2023 list of “America’s Best Employers for Diversity,” The Walt Disney Co. ranked No. 98, beating out such companies as Nike, Bank of America, and Netflix. To compile the list of the top 500 companies, Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to survey 45,000 American workers at companies with at least 1,000…


The Ideological Capture of the CBC  

Commentary Elon Musk’s Twitter has dropped the labels “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” from several media corporations, including the CBC. Nevertheless, calling the CBC government-funded is merely stating the obvious. Last year, the Canadian government provided over $1 billion in funding to the CBC, or about 70 percent of annual operating costs. But as Edward R. Murrow famously…


Indiana School Officials Admit to Hiding CRT, DEI Teachings From Parents in Undercover Video

Video footage has emerged showing officials across schools in Indiana allegedly admitting to teaching critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles to students under different terms to avoid upsetting parents. The undercover interviews by the nonprofit conservative news media watchdog, Accuracy in Media (AIM), were published on April 12. The footage…


Legal Nonprofit Files Complaint Against BlackRock’s ‘Racist’ Hiring Practices

America First Legal Foundation (AFL) filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to ask them to open an investigation into BlackRock for engaging in what they called “unlawful” and “racist” employment practices. Vice President and General Counsel at AFL Gene P. Hamilton sent a letter to the EEOC Director of New York…


SEC Diversity Report Offers Glimpse of Federal Workplace Culture

Gender and skin color count when seeking work or contracts with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where leaders are working to build a workforce with well-balanced diversity. A recently released annual report to Congress shows that diversity, equity, and inclusion permeates many facets of the SEC’s culture (pdf). The information is tracked through…


25-Year-Old Chinese-American Activist Claims First Victory Against ‘Woke’ University Programs

Twenty-five-year-old activist Kenny Xu has recently garnered media attention for his outspoken opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The second-generation Chinese-American and his team, Color Us United, scored a major victory in February when they successfully campaigned for the University of North Carolina (UNC) system to ban DEI requirements in recruitment and hiring….


Anti-White Racism Harms Us All

Commentary Justifying one form of racism justifies all forms of racism, historical and to be invented. All advocates of racism claim that their vilifying and persecuting certain categories of people are justified. Today, the fact that certain census categories of people are “underrepresented” in particular categories or groups in relation to their percentage of the…


Texas Bill That Would Ban DEI in Higher Education Inches Toward Approval

Texas is one step closer to following in Florida’s footsteps by creating a state law that would ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies from universities. Opponents of DEI programs say they divide people into camps of oppressors and victims based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and others. Those in favor of DEI programs say…


New Network of Lawyers Battle Diversity Equity and Inclusion Mandates

A Cornell Law School professor has launched the Equal Protection Project, a network of attorneys battling discrimination against whites occurring under so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandates. Professor William A. Jacobson, founder of the Legal Insurrection Foundation and Criticalrace.org, started his latest project, EqualProtect.org, in response to a disturbing trend that ditches the American idea that people…