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U.S. Capitol, theGrio.com
March 27, 2024
The U.S. House of Representatives has dissolved its Office of Diversity and Inclusion amid ongoing efforts from Republican lawmakers.
Medical student Benjamin Owens smiles as he gets his white coat from Dr. Nersi Nikakhtar
March 22, 2024
House Democrats are slamming Republicans for efforts to strip federal funding from medical schools that offer DEI programs.
March 19, 2024
Hollywood stars spoke with theGrio at the NAACP Image Awards about the importance of DEI and Black storytelling.
February 22, 2024
Catch an all-new episode of “The Hill with April Ryan” every week on theGrio.com and theGrio’s social media platforms.
Las Vegas Aces forward A'ja Wilson, Vice President Kamala Harris and guard Chelsea Gray
February 15, 2024
Diversity hiring throughout the WNBA soared, TIDES' study says, despite the league's dip in the racial score for head-coach hiring.
February 8, 2024
One battleground will be the lawsuit challenging grants from the Fearless Fund, awarded to businesses at least 51% owned by…
January 31, 2024
The measure signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox had cleared the Utah state House and Senate by wide, party-line majorities.
January 30, 2024
The furor over diversity, equity and inclusion programs is just the latest example of the historical phenomenon known as "whitelash."
Florida race teachings
January 18, 2024
Florida's State Board of Education contends taxpayer monies would stop funding college programs classifying people by sex or race.
Mark Cuban - what is DEI
January 5, 2024
Elon Musk took to X to call DEI "another word for racism," then Cuban, the billionaire businessman and investor, responded…
July 27, 2023
Republicans in Congress, state governments and on the presidential campaign trail are denouncing and demonizing efforts to promote DEI.
June 10, 2023
New rules for Georgia’s public school teachers would remove the words “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” from education standards.
February 24, 2023
Republican lawmakers in Texas said DEI initiatives, which benefit the historically disenfranchised, are "forbidden" and "illegal."
February 9, 2023
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office has sent out a memo encouraging state agency and public universities to stop employing DEI…
January 31, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday plans to block state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis -- social studies textbooks
January 6, 2023
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona dismissed Gov. Ron DeSantis' latest action as “an attempt to get a national name for himself.”
Reset with Coach Tish thegrio.com
April 22, 2022
In this week's episode of 'The Reset with Coach Tish, DEI expert Amber Cabral gives tips on landing the right…
February 28, 2022
Ursula Burns, the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500, opened doors. Morgan Stanley's Carla Harris “We can't think…
iHeartRadio 103.5 KISS FM Jingle Ball 2021 - Show
January 25, 2022
GLAAD, Recording Academy announced a new partnership to promote more inclusion in music industry through a list of initiatives
Singer Rihanna
August 6, 2021
Rihanna's focus on inclusivity is living, breathing, profitable proof that diversity and profitability can coexist.