Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI policies targeted by the president.

Among the first executive actions signed by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies. In ...

For decades, presidents have issued executive orders expanding and strengthening diversity programs within the federal workforce – Trump revoked a batch on Tuesday ...

President Trump's major workplace changes may discourage companies from going above and beyond to support diversity and inclusion.

President Trump's warning to “end illegal DEI discrimination” or face civil rights investigations is expected to have ...

Diversity, equity and inclusion programs have come under attack in American boardrooms, state legislatures and college ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered that all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and ...

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Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it ...

As a result of her efforts, Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA ... and like other women grappling with poverty, Native American women were focused on immediate economic ...