Such statutes collectively prohibit #housing #discrimination on the basis of #race, #sex, #national origin, #disability & other characteristics.
HUD ofcls, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, voiced concern that #DOGE’s access to #HEMS could violate the #privacy rights of discrimination victims & potentially put them at risk if their #information is mishandled or leaked.
[“will be read by malign foreign actors” - HHS]
Whiteness is worse than a fucking disease.
US supreme court to hear straight woman’s ‘reverse discrimination’ case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/reverse-straight-discrimination-case-supreme-court #Discriminationatwork #Work&careers #USnews #Race
A soccer ball, a T-shirt: teachers scramble to say goodbye to students fleeing under Trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/teachers-students-immigration-trump #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #USeducation #USpolitics #Education #Children #Schools #Society #USnews #Race
About 70% of foreign nationals in Japan have been subjected to police questioning on the streets in the past five years, nearly six times more than Japanese, a survey shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/26/japan/society/japan-racial-profiling-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #surveys #discrimination #race
Do Trump and co want a world reclaimed by straight white men? It’s not certain they’ll get it | Andy Beckett https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/donald-trump-straight-white-men-diversity-kemi-badenoch-business-multiculturalism-economy #DonaldTrump #Inequality #USpolitics #Business #USnews #Race
DiversityWatch (February 25, 2025): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-february-25-2025/
#CivilRights advocates & the plaintiffs argue the #law is meant to level the playing field, counter #discrimination & boost opportunity for people who have historically experienced discrimination. Work promoting #diversity, #equity & #inclusion furthers the law’s intent.
But under #Trump’s interpretation, these efforts are seen as #unlawful discrimination themselves because they consider #race. It relies in part on the 2023 #SCOTUS decision outlawing race consideration in college admissions.
“This Letter is an #unlawful attempt by the Department to impose this administration’s particular views of how #schools should operate as if it were the #law,” the suit says.
The letter & the lawsuit represent polar opposite interpretations of the 1964 #CivilRights Act, which bars #discrimination on the basis of #race in federally funded programs.
The guidance from the #Trump #Education Department’s Office for #CivilRights was sent as a “Dear Colleague” letter to school officials throughout the country Feb. 14. It threatened to deny federal #funding to any #school or #college that considers #race in hiring, #discipline policy, #scholarships, prizes or any other aspect of campus life. It gave schools a 2-week deadline to comply, setting off confusion & panic on campuses nationwide.
#Teachers #union files lawsuit over #Trump’s crackdown on race, #DEI in #schools
A new lawsuit accuses Trump #Education Department of trying to rewrite #CivilRights #law when it threatened to pull federal school #funding over mentions of #race.
https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AFT-ASA-v-Dept-of-Ed-et-al.pdf
Rachel Maddow says MSNBC laying off ‘non-white’ hosts and staff is ‘indefensible’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/msnbc-layoffs-rachel-maddow #UStelevisionindustry #Televisionindustry #RachelMaddow #USnews #TVnews #MSNBC #Media #Race
Apple shareholders vote against ending DEI program amid Trump crackdown https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/apple-dei-trump #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #Technology #USpolitics #Business #USnews #Apple #Race
Over 3,000 beauty products targeting Black women contain health hazards, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/black-women-beauty-products-hazardous-ingredients #Trumpadministration #BlackUSculture #USnews #Beauty #Makeup #Race #PFAS
Apple shareholders to consider scrapping diversity programs on Tuesday
The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research — a self-described conservative think tank — urges Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives currently in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump.