Category: equity

Blue Cross Blue Shield Excludes Organizations With White CEOs From Grant Program

The leader of a medical watchdog organization is calling Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina’s grant program for organizations not run by white people a new level of apartheid. “If ever there was a bad idea, the notion that we should start to separate our country along racial lines is amongst the worst,”…


NTD News Today (Jan. 30): Handling of Classified Docs Causes ‘Grave Concern’; Report: NYC Employees Must Take CRT Training

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Jan. 29 expressed “grave concern” over the contents of classified documents found at the homes of President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence. All New York City employees reportedly have to do mandatory critical race theory training that says that America is systematically racist and…


Watchdog Group: DEI Training Is ‘Insulting’ to Health Care Workers

A watchdog organization that monitors radical and divisive ideologies in medical institutions has obtained an internal document (pdf) from a Texas hospital showing a sizeable commitment to enforcing concepts which, the group says, stray from basic health care training. Laura Morgan, program manager with Do No Harm (DNH), told The Epoch Times that the documents…


What Is a Global Citizen? Bill Gates Will Tell You

Bill Gates wants you to be a “global citizen.” But what does that even mean? Why would a person want to focus globally before taking care of the needs of his or her own nation, state, or community? And are Gates’s intentions as soft as his cashmere sweaters? …


Socialist ‘Equity’ Invades Orange County Schools in California

Commentary Even in Orange County, California, parental control continues to slip away, replaced by dictates from unelected local, state, and even federal bureaucrats. That’s going to be a big topic at the Jan. 4 meeting of the Orange County Board of Education, which still has a board majority representing the interests of parents. At issue…


Socialist ‘Equity’ Enters Orange County Schools in California

Commentary Even in Orange County, California, parental control continues to slip away, replaced by dictates from unelected local, state, and even federal bureaucrats. That’s going to be a big topic at the Jan. 4 meeting of the Orange County Board of Education, which still has a board majority representing the interests of parents. At issue…


Lame Duck Bills by 2 Key Democrats Herald 2023 House Racial Equity Battle on Hill

Outgoing House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney lost her primary earlier this year, and so will not be returning in 2023, but the New York Democrat’s influence in the lower chamber of Congress will continue well into the New Year, thanks to two bills she filed on Dec. 16. Joined in the…


Orange County Supervisors Declare Racism and Inequity a Public Health Crisis

SANTA ANA, Calif.—The Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Dec. 6 with a 4–0 vote, declaring racism and inequity a public health crisis. Supervisor Don Wagner was absent. Chairman of the Board Doug Chaffee, who introduced the item with Supervisor Andrew Do, said during the meeting that racism has been associated with chronic…


Colorado Looking to Fund Equity and Affordable Housing Programs By Reducing Tax Refunds

In September, the average sales price for a single-family home in Colorado was almost $670,000. That’s a number most first-time home buyers and lower-income families find difficult to swallow. As a result of Colorado’s sky-high housing costs, state legislators have taken measures to increase affordable housing. But Nov. 8 is the first time Colorado voters get to…


Michael Zwaagstra: Abolishing Honours Programs in the Name of Equity is Absurd

Commentary School board elections are heating up in Vancouver. The heat is caused, in part, by a group of trustee candidates pledging to bring back honours courses, which the current board abolished last year. Many parents were upset when the honours courses were cut, particularly since they were the only way for gifted students to…