Diversity, Equity, Inclusion/DEI Under Legal Attack, Companies Quietly Alter Their Programs, Affirm Action: AP
- As diversity, equity and inclusion comes under legal attack, companies quietly alter their programs, AP News, Jan. 14, 2024.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sophia Danner-Okotie’s has ambitious plans for her Nigerian-inspired clothing line but a sense of dread has punctured her optimism as she watches a legal battle being waged against a small venture capital firm that has provided funding instrumental to her boutique brand’s growth.
The case against the Fearless Fund alleges that one of its grant programs discriminates against non-Black women and asks the courts to imagine a similar program designed only for white applicants. It is among a growing list of lawsuits against corporate diversity and inclusion programs that are making their way through the courts this year.
Most have been filed by conservative activists encouraged by the Supreme Court’s June ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions and are now seeking to set a similar precedent in the working world...
https://apnews.com/article/dei-diversity-corporations-affirmative-action-309864f08e6ec63a45d18ca5f25d7540
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- Black Kos, New Year - Democracy and the Rule of Law Are on the Ballot in 2024, Jan. 16, 2024.
Black people more than any other group in American history (with the exception of Native Peoples) have seen what are the consequences of the denial of democratic rule and the rule of law. Through out most of our history in the New World this was our norm not the exception.
The US billed itself as a beacon freedom, liberty, and a government ruled by the will of it citizens. But from its founding in 1776 through two hundred years of slavery and then Jim Crow, the US denied some of it’s citizens the ability to exercise their fundamental rights...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/16/2216157/-Black-Kos-New-Year-Democracy-and-the-Rule-of-Law-On-the-Ballot
