How Trump's EEOC Is Attacking DEI and Emphasizing White People

How Trump is using civil rights agency to push a MAGA obsession with white people

Established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was among the many achievements of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. The EEOC has existed under 11 different U.S. presidents, including Donald Trump — whose critics argue that the agency, under Chair Andrea R. Lucas, is taking a radically different approach from what LBJ envisioned during the 1960s. And according to National Public Ra…

How Trump's EEOC is attacking DEI and emphasizing white people

In late February, Andrea Lucas sent a letter to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies.The Trump-appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) framed it as a friendly reminder of where she stood on a hot-button issue: diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.She directed the CEOs, general counsels and board chairs to guidance she’d issued last year warning that a company’s DEI policies or practices may be illegal if they lea…

Born out of the Civil Rights era, the EEOC pivots toward protecting white people

Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has set a new agenda for an agency that long prioritized vulnerable and underserved workers.

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