Companies grapple with uncertainty as Trump targets private sector DEI

In Defense of the DEI Rollbacks: Is it The Handmaid’s Tale or Is It Simply Merit-Based Hiring and Real Inclusion?

By Manzanita Miller For at least a decade mainstream culture has been obsessively preoccupied with forwarding a distinctly left-wing “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) agenda, and that agenda has heavily permeated the business world.   While encouraging a diverse workforce sounds good in theory, the reality is DEI programs were used to discriminate against individuals based on their race and sex, mitigate merit-based mobility, and push rad…

BlackRock Ditches DEI Quotas After Trump Crackdown—But Is It Real or Just Another Corporate Diversity Rebrand?

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has long been one of the biggest financial backers of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Under its previous policies, the firm directly tied corporate funding and internal hiring to DEI quotas, ensuring that a significant portion of its investments favored companies that aligned with these ideological goals. However, in a stunning reversal, BlackRock has now announced that it will no…

Bigoted beliefs, racist ties found among some of President Trump’s appointees

As President Donald Trump has made clear in the first month of his second term, one of the major goals of his administration is to reinscribe the hierarchies of race and gender. The result would be to, once again, privilege those who are white and male in a country that has spent decades moving, if […]

‘Way too many unknowns’: RI Black Business Association’s future uncertain with DEI rollback

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The future of the Rhode Island Black Business Association (RIBBA) is up in the air as President Donald Trump calls for an end to policies related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). RIBBA hosts workforce development programs and helps smaller businesses grow, particularly businesses owned by people from marginalized or underserved communities, although their free services are open to all. The organization said it …

National Association Of Social Workers Fight Back Against President Trump's Harmful Federal Policies

Source: Ann E. Zelle / Getty In honor of Social Work Month, a time to celebrate the essential contributions of social workers, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is not only recognizing the achievements of social workers nationwide but also protesting the harmful policies enacted by President Donald Trump and his administration against federal workers, DEI and more. In an open letter shared March 5, the NASW, which is the largest …

Is the ethical corporation an oxymoron?

Corporations are backpedaling on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Is the era of the ethical multinational in the past?