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Inside the Target CEO meeting with Black leaders amid the company’s DEI rollback and the boycott that followed

“It did not come up to all that we're expecting or needing.”

Fortune

Trump’s bad day in court: President loses three times within 90 minutes on DEI, sanctuary cities and voter registration

Federal judges across the country dealt blows to executive orders and other policy maneuvers

The Independent UK

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s push to end DEI in K-12 public schools

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s guidance forbidding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in K-12 public schools

The Independent UK

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The Lege’s ‘Big Government Intrusion’ into University Academics

Expanding on last session's anti-DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.

Texas Observer

Trump administration kills landmark pollution settlement in majority-Black county

Decision will affect mostly low-income Alabama residents as DoJ dismisses agreement over untreated sewage as DEI

The Guardian - US

Threatening diversity, threatening growth: the business effects of Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-trans agendas

Recent months have seen a dramatic shift in US policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). These changes carry deep economic consequences. President Donald Trump’s executive orders aim to ban DEI initiatives in federal agencies and contractors, and private companies have felt pressure to weaken or drop their DEI programmes.…

The Conversation

No More £500/Hr Consultants: Pentagon Pulls Plug on £3.87b in Contracts to Fund Soldiers' Healthcare

DoD stated that the Pentagon cuts are aimed at restoring accountability in the department and halting any form of 'wasteful spending'.

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NASCAR Driver Slams Claims She Was a 'DEI Hire' After Crashing at Race: 'I Earned My Seat'

After a crash at the Xfinity Series race in North Carolina, the veteran NASCAR driver denounced online harassment and accusations of being a "DEI hire."

Latin Times

Harvard is suing the White House: here’s what Trump hopes to achieve by targeting universities

A few days ago, in a move that attracted international attention, the White House threatened to strip Harvard University of US$2 billion (£1.5 billion) in federal funding, potentially revoke its tax-exempt status and even prevent it from enrolling international students if it didn’t capitulate to a new list of demands.

The Conversation

Tennessee lawmakers adjourn after passing bans on DEI initiatives

Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature has adjourned its monthslong lawmaking session by passing a final flurry of bills

The Independent UK

Boston nonprofit rejects federal funding so it doesn’t have to comply with Trump’s anti-DEI demands

The nonprofit won a grant through Americorps, the volunteer agency recently gutted by Elon Musk’s DOGE

The Independent UK

Reducing diversity, equity and inclusion to a catchphrase undermines its true purpose

Diversity, equity and inclusion, which has become the catchphrase DEI, represents a commitment to fairness and to tackling racism and exclusionary policies that limit access to resources and perpetuate injustice.

The Conversation

As DEI rollbacks take hold, students of color say they're losing campus support systems

As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where they always have felt welcome on predominately white campuses

The Independent UK

Marriott’s CEO spoke out about DEI

After Trump’s executive order banning DEI, Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano stood by the hotelier’s values.

Fortune

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Cracks in social cohesion - the major parties must commit to reinvigorating multiculturalism

In the run up to the May 3 election, questions are being raised about the value of multiculturalism as a public policy in Australia.

Fortune

With Palantir stock taking off, CEO Alex Karp has finally been vindicated

Palantir’s strategy of building software for defense and intelligence agencies has taken off, and Silicon Valley is following Karp’s lead.

The Independent UK

Third of public think DEI policies in workplaces have gone too far – poll

The exclusive poll found that 36% of respondents believe current policies in UK offices have gone too far.

The Guardian - US

US law firms quietly scrub DEI references from websites to appease Trump

Changes at two dozen prestigious firms underscore Trump’s successful intimidation campaign against legal profession

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The Independent UK

Education Department withdraws from plan to address discipline disparities for Native students

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at a South Dakota school system, saying it was wrongly rooted in efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion

The Conversation

Business schools are facing challenges to their diversity commitments. They must reinforce them to train leaders effectively

In March 2025, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a leading accreditation body, revised its guiding principles. This included removing the phrase “diversity and inclusion” from its accreditation standards and replacing it with the more neutral “community and connectedness”. The decision emerged amid a shifting legal and political…

The Guardian - UK

Barclays ditches gender and ethnicity targets in US

Bank says it still values inclusivity after bowing to Trump agenda by changing hiring and promotion policy

The Independent UK

Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at Nato. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list

U.S. officials say Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration

The Guardian - US

Harriet Tubman webpage targeted amid Trump-led anti-DEI efforts

US park service deletes quote and image of abolitionist from webpage, instead emphasizing ‘Black/White cooperation’

The Independent UK

Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week

Fortune

How companies like Delta and Cisco are sticking up for their DEI policies

“Despite the increased scrutiny, many companies seem to be taking a measured approach.”

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