Letter: A bigot or a coward

In the United States, President Trump has made "anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)" a policy, and some companies are scrapping their DEI policies. Why is this happening? We spoke to Seiko Mimaki, a professor at Doshisha University Graduate School who specializes in the history of American politics and diplomacy. [Interviewer: Taichi Yamamoto]

Letter: A bigot or a coward

I am disgusted and appalled that University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella sent a letter to Arizona's Senate president announcing steps he is taking to shut down DEIA activities. The U of A president could have gone to court, as…

Napa High just qualified for federal aid. Now that money’s at risk under Trump’s anti-DEI crackdown

The Trump administration has sent a letter to all states asking them to certify that DEI initiatives will not be implemented at schools or risk losing federal funding.

What anti-"DEI" means - Lawyers, Guns & Money

It least as applied by the Trump administration, it means that any critique of racism is impermissable, but racism itself is fine: Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the …