Diversity Initiatives – The United State Media

Profits, Not D.E.I., Are Why Companies Exist

Reporter USFebruary 21, 2025

A prominent group of chief executives said almost six years ago that making profits for shareholders was only part of their business — and not necessarily the main part. Speaking collectively as the Business Roundtable, C.E.O.s from companies like Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Wells Fargo and Amazon said that, really, they were devoted to serving […]

As Trump Attacks D.E.I., Wall Street Worries

Reporter USFebruary 11, 2025

Wall Street has not typically been accused of doing too much for women and minority groups. The financial services industry, after all, is one in which more major banks are named after the Morgan family than led by a female chief executive. So it meant something over the past half-decade or so when the biggest […]

After Trump’s DEI Order, Companies Navigate a Legal Minefield

Reporter USFebruary 10, 2025

Companies that just one year ago celebrated Black History Month and stocked Pride products on their shelves are in a new phase — what some lawyers refer to as “rainbow-hushing,” meaning dropping or quietly rebranding their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. They are retreating, or clamming up, as they brace for lawsuits encouraged by President […]

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

Reporter USFebruary 7, 2025

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 […]

As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints

Reporter USFebruary 6, 2025

In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity. At the same time, Tesla, the electric car company that Mr. Musk leads, has in recent days, with little notice, tried to appease critics who have accused the company of racial discrimination. In a little-noticed […]

As Big Retailers Pull Back on D.E.I, What Happens to Emerging Black Sellers?

Reporter USFebruary 5, 2025

Pernell Cezar’s coffee company, BLK & Bold, was operating out of the back of a brewery with three employees when he got his big break: an audience with a buyer at a Target Black History Month expo. By January 2020, bags of his Rise & GRND roast were on Target shelves. That was five months […]

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

Reporter USJanuary 30, 2025

Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump’s new administration. As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace — something […]

Trump Escalates His War on D.E.I.

Reporter USJanuary 26, 2025

Crackdown President Trump made clear for months that he would take aim at diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives when he took office. But the ferocity with which he has done so — both within the federal government and, soon, in the corporate sector — has set off alarm bells in boardrooms. “We have heard from […]

Target to End D.E.I. Policies as Trump Threatens Companies

Reporter USJanuary 24, 2025

Days after President Trump ordered federal agencies to investigate private sector entities for “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Target has become the latest major company to retreat on D.E.I. Target announced on Friday that it will conclude its D.E.I. goals and will no longer participate in external diversity-focused surveys, including sharing data with the […]

Trump’s D.E.I. Order Causes ‘Chaos’ Among Corporate Leaders

Reporter USJanuary 23, 2025

More than 200 diversity officers, some from Fortune 500 companies and some from nonprofits, gathered last summer at N.Y.U. School of Law and on video to talk about the future of their diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., programs, which had become a legal and social target. Anxiously, they wondered how to protect themselves. Did […]