US EditionAmerica's biggest companies are waging a stealth campaign to dismantle DEI
- Donald Trump has made unfounded claims that diversity initiatives contributed to a fatal airplane crash, following executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in various industries.
- Many companies, including General Motors and Mondelez International, are rolling back DEI initiatives amid heightened legal and political scrutiny, fearing potential violations of civil rights laws.
- Despite efforts by some corporations to maintain DEI commitments, the general atmosphere is one of caution, as many CEOs face pressure to avoid legal challenges and backlash from conservative groups.
- Observers note that while DEI may be beneficial, it often serves as a superficial measure that does not address deeper issues of systemic inequality within corporate structures.
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DEI Was Never Going to Save Us
Malaika Jabali Trump’s racist attacks on diversity initiatives must be resisted—but that shouldn’t prevent an honest conversation about the limits of what DEI can actually achieve. The post DEI Was Never Going to Save Us appeared first on The Nation.
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JingletreeAmerica's biggest companies are waging a stealth campaign to dismantle DEI
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIIn 2020, it was all the rage for corporations to pledge their allegiance to diversity and inclusion. In 2025, it's very much in vogue to declare that they're no longer into that kind of stuff. Companies such as Target, Walmart, McDonald's, Google, and Meta have recently announced major rollbacks of their DEI efforts. In corporate America, nixing employee resource groups is the new version of posting that Black Lives…
Remove gender pronouns, says Deloitte US. How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
Major corporations including Google, Amazon, McDonald's, Boeing and IBM have significantly scaled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with Deloitte instructing staff working on contracts for the US government to remove pronouns. The shift comes amid increasing legal challenges, including lawsuits over race-based hiring and promotions, and heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration
Goldman Sachs Reverses Decision To Block IPOs For US-Based Companies With All-White Male Boards After Making 2020 Commitments To DEI
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has changed its stance on underwriting initial public offerings (IPOs) for companies with all-white male boards. In 2020, CEO David Solomon announced that the leading investment bank would only take a company public in the United States or Western Europe if the organization had at least two diverse board members, one of whom was a woman, AFROTECH previously reported. However, as of Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, Goldman’s IPO r…
Ding Dong, Diversity Is Dead at Deloitte
Note: We did that headline strictly for the alliteration, not for the bad witch subtext. Anyway, someone tipped us to this yesterday but did not include details and we didn’t get a chance to follow up with people inside Deloitte who enjoy leaking the messy things that happen at their firm so here we are getting details from Reddit and Financial Times. FT: Deloitte US has asked employees working on government contracts to remove gender pronouns …
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