Diversity & Equality

The U.N. began commemorating the holiday in 1975, which was International Women’s Year, and its General Assembly officially recognized the day two years later.

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has a blunt message for employers: “Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility best practices are not illegal.”

Some prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020.

A new JUST 100 list of America’s “most just” companies is out, with a little less DEI and ESG, and a touch of MAGA. 

A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and would not be required to do any work-related tasks.

The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has barred any celebrations related to MLK Jr. Day, Women’s History Month and other such observances to comply with Trump’s executive orders.

Civil rights activists gathered outside Target’s headquarters to call for a boycott of the retailing giant over its decision to phase out its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Several major companies like Target, Walmart and McDonald’s have begun to roll back DEI programs in the wake of a Republican-driven effort to disband the push for workplace and school equality.

Target joins Walmart, Meta, McDonald’s and a wave of other major companies pulling back on DEI programs.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.

With President-elect Donald Trump and his administration vowing to wipe out federally funded diversity programs, the future of DEI is precarious.

The number of Black students starting at Harvard Law School has hit a 60-year low following the end of race-based admissions.

The number of Black students starting at Harvard Law School this fall has hit a 60-year low. The drop in enrollment comes after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended race-based admissions. Attending Harvard Law is a major milestone for students. Graduates include some of the nation’s most prominent Black lawyers, including the Obamas, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and...

Corporations are pulling out of the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index just a few years after celebrating their contributions to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups in business.

“A lot of the stuff written about us is just so fake.”

Bisila Bokoko, a Spanish immigrant with African roots, moved to the United States to carve out a path as an entrepreneur.

Lowe’s changes follow closely on the heels of announcements by Harley Davidson and Jack Daniel’s, as well as similar changes made by Tractor Supply, John Deere and Best Buy.

Ahead of the annual Disruption Dialogue on Martha’s Vineyard, Dr. Makeeba McCreary, President of the New Commonwealth Fund, and Dr. Gisele Shorter, President and CEO of Nellie Mae Education Foundation, came to explain the importance of these deep conversations focusing on social justice. ...

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