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Yes — President Donald Trump told The New York Times that civil-rights-era protections and policies have left white people “very badly treated,” explicitly framing the 1960s reforms as producing “reve...
A narrow factual claim — that CBS fired only Black and brown workers — is on the available record. Reporting includes a direct allegation from a former CBS producer that layoffs disproportionately hit...
Using a racial slur can trigger civil, administrative and sometimes criminal consequences: employers can face liability under Title VII and employees can be disciplined or sued when slurs create a hos...
A recent civil lawsuit alleges that an Arizona Turning Point USA (TPUSA) staffer propositioned a male employee for sex and then—after he rebuffed her—took his 14‑year‑old daughter without permission; ...
The sources show the Trump administration pursued a coordinated set of policies and executive orders beginning on “day one” that narrowed federal recognition of gender to a binary, removed or suppress...
The civil rights movement’s landmark gains face tangible pressures under President Trump’s rhetoric and policy agenda, which critics say repackages racial grievance into federal action and appointee s...
Using the wrong pronouns can legally constitute when it is intentional, repeated, or pervasive, particularly in workplace and institutional settings; federal agencies and some courts treat such conduc...
Public reporting does not offer a single, definitive breakdown of which racial or ethnic groups have seen the largest employment gains from DEI programs since 2015; available sources instead describe ...
Federal protections for clinicians offering gender-affirming care are in flux: HHS rescinded its 2022 OCR guidance and the White House issued Executive Order 14187 directing agencies to strip reliance...
Several high-profile lawsuits show that on-air comments can trigger massive legal and financial consequences, ranging from nine-figure defamation settlements to individual employment and discriminatio...
Project 2025 contains no affirmative, explicit program to expand women’s education or career development; multiple analyses conclude its proposals would reduce federal education supports, narrow civil...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed to dismantle legal segregation and outlaw discrimination across American public life, targeting public accommodations, federally funded programs, schools, voting pro...
There is extensive, well-documented litigation accusing Wells Fargo of discrimination — overwhelmingly focused on race, national origin, immigration status and employment practices — but the reporting...
CBS and parent Paramount carried out rounds of layoffs in late October 2025 that affected roughly 100 CBS News staffers as part of a broader corporate reduction of about 1,000 employees in the first w...
Walmart has repeatedly been the subject of criticism and allegations across labor, competition, supplier, environmental, and discrimination issues; reporting and advocacy groups document examples such...
Black women encounter measurable barriers in hiring and workplace retention stemming from intersecting racism and sexism, including biased “culture fit” judgments, hair- and grooming-based discriminat...
Several news reports show a mixed institutional response to federal probes demanding lists of Jewish students, faculty and staff: Barnard College acknowledged complying with an EEOC contact-informatio...
OPM codified the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act into federal hiring regulations in 2023 and said it would develop metrics and implementation plans, but there is no publicly released, agency-wide ...
Federal law enforcement historically has been and remains majority white, with gradual increases in racial and ethnic minority representation over recent decades documented by federal surveys of law e...
There is no single, explicit federal statute that on its face says “the government may not create a database of citizens to use for retaliation,” but multiple overlapping legal regimes substantially c...