Tag Archives: Diversity Initiatives

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing

A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences,” the Rev. Al Sharpton led about 100 people into a Costco in East Harlem for a so-called buy-cott. The idea was to shop and support the company for maintaining its diversity, equity and inclusion policies amid pressure from the new …

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NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.

NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.

Since 1978, every new group of NASA astronauts has included women and usually reflected a multiplicity of races and ethnicities. That is not simply by chance. NASA’s process for selecting its astronauts is not entirely gender- and race-blind. With so many outstanding applicants, choosing a diversified, highly qualified group of candidates has been achievable, said Duane Ross, who worked as …

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Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders

Health Officials Struggle to Comply With D.E.I. and Gender Orders

Federal and state health officials and staff members scrambled on Friday to comply with a 5 p.m. deadline by the Trump administration to terminate any programs that promote “gender ideology,” and to withdraw documents and any other media that may do so. Federal workers had already been ordered to halt diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, to scrub public references to …

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Pause on U.S. Funding Spreads Fear of H.I.V. Spike Across Africa

Pause on U.S. Funding Spreads Fear of H.I.V. Spike Across Africa

As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients stood outside, baffled that the clinic was closed. Sibusiso, 39 …

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