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97Th Academy Awards Celebrate Diversity And Surprising Wins

Discover the highlights of the 97th Academy Awards, featuring diverse winners, historic moments, and heartfelt acknowledgments.

Top News · Mar 3, 2025

Mysterious and vulnerable: the secret lives of Australia’s giant worms

Australia has a huge diversity of worms on land, sand and sea such as the giant Gippsland earthworm which can stretch up to 3 metres

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

Reason · Mar 3, 2025

Texas GOP Leaders Support Black Official After Diversity Hiring Dispute

Emotional exchange in Texas Water Board hearing over diversity hiring policies sparks debate on respectful discourse and systemic racism.

Top News · Mar 1, 2025

Texas GOP leaders defend appointee after tense exchange over diversity hiring

Several of Texas’ top Republicans are defending Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick to head the state’s water agency following pointed questions from a GOP lawmaker over the agency’s diversity hiring policies

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2025

Texas leaders defend Black official after lawmaker’s public interrogation of DEI policies left her in tears

The topic was a budget request from a state agency. The exchange grew emotional when a lawmaker pressed for answers about a strategic plan that praises diversity.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 28, 2025

British pharma company GSK pauses diversity work citing Trump orders

London-based FTSE 100 firm reviewing its policies, saying it is obliged to comply because US is its No 1 market

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 1

Maybe some universities can continue to do race-based affirmative action, even after SFFA v. Harvard.

Reason · Feb 28, 2025

Companies may be rolling back their diversity policies but investors keep voting down anti-DEI shareholder proposals

Investors at Costco, Apple, and John Deere have all rejected anti-DEI proposals within the past month.

Fortune · Feb 28, 2025

Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are under attack. Here’s why they matter more than ever

As International Women’s Day approaches, we must redouble our efforts to champion social justice and the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). These are under unprecedented attack by some political leaders.

The Conversation · Feb 28, 2025