Across the country, educational institutions, corporations, and even law firms have been ending or scaling back their DEI programs. Often, the explanation given is that they want to comply with threats from the White House or SFFA v. Harvard. However, as I’ve said many times before, DEI is not illegal. 

Institutions ending their DEI programs are demonstrating that they were never truly committed to DEI in the first place. Most of these programs were established after the George Floyd uprisings and have not even been in place for 10 years. To see institutions turning from their DEI programs so quickly is disheartening. 

However, now the power is our hands. We can stand up and say that if an institution does not support DEI, then it does not deserve our support. 

Check out my conversation on this topic with civil rights attorney Angela Groves in the video below. 

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