The Trump administration&#8217;s war with Harvard University continued on Monday as the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a probe into the university&#8217;s law journal over its treatment of white contributors.
The investigation will focus on reports of the Harvard Law Review evaluating journal membership and article publication on the basis of race as opposed to merit. Civil rights law prohibits federal dollars from going toward entities that practice racial discrimination.
“Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “Title VI’s demands are clear: recipients of federal financial assistance may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights.”
The Trump administration specifically cited reports that a Harvard Law Review editor said it was &#8220;concerning&#8221; that four out of five individuals who wanted to reply to an article on police reform &#8220;are white men.&#8221; Another exampled listed by the administration was an editor at the journal saying “that a piece should be subject to expedited review because the author was a minority.”
Anthony Archeval, the acting Director of HHS Office for Civil Rights, said that these kinds of actions could set back students.
“Law journal membership and publication are crucial achievements that build momentum for law students’ careers and shape legal scholarship,” he said. “This investigation reflects the Administration’s common-sense understanding that these opportunities should be earned through merit-based standards and not race.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Harvard Law School noted that the Harvard Law Review was &#8220;a student-run organization.&#8221;
&#8220;Harvard Law School is committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization that is legally independent from the law school,&#8221; the spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The Trump administration has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-harvard-an-anti-semitic-threat-to-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">battling with Harvard</a> over its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and handling of anti-Israel protests. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard.
Last week, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Harvard was a &#8220;Far Left Institution&#8221; and &#8220;a threat to Democracy.&#8221;

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An affiliate of Pennsylvania State University was hit with a federal civil rights complaint on Tuesday alleging that scholarship opportunities discriminated against white and male students on the basis of their race and sex.
The Equal Opportunity Project hit the Pennsylvania College of Technology, an affiliate of the Pennsylvania State University, over 12 different scholarships, including some that require applicants to be “a racial or ethnic minority,” “female,” or considered “previously marginalized” on account of their identities.
“Creating educational opportunities based on race, color, national origin, or sex violates Titles VI and IX of the Civil Rights Act, as well as Pennsylvania law,” said William A. Jacobson, the founder of the Equal Protection Project. “Such race-and sex-based scholarships also violate Penn Tech&#8217;s own non-discrimination policies. We are asking Penn Tech to live up to the law and its own rules, and remove the discriminatory eligibility barriers it has erected.”
The university’s Cahir Family Renaissance Scholarship only accepts applicants who “have been previously marginalized by racial, ethnic, socio-economic, gender, or other adversities,” while the “Start to Finish Minority Scholarship” tells applicants that they must be “a racial or ethnic minority.” Other scholarships named in the federal complaint only accept female applicants.
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“Racial, ethnic, and sex discrimination is wrong and unlawful no matter which race, ethnicity, or sex is targeted or benefits. All applicants are entitled to equal treatment without regard to race, color, national origin, or sex,” Jacobson charged. “It does not matter what schools call it — &#8216;anti-racism&#8217; or &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion,&#8217; or something else — what matters is that no measure of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin is permitted.”
The complaint comes after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-investigating-more-than-50-universities-for-anti-white-anti-asian-discrimination">launched investigations</a> into more than 50 universities that allegedly engaged in anti-white and anti-Asian discrimination, including Vanderbilt, Yale, New York University, Notre Dame, Duke, and Georgetown.
Most of the 52 institutions under investigation face scrutiny over their involvement in the PhD Project, which the Education Department described as “an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants.” Other colleges are under investigation for allegedly awarding discriminatory, race-based scholarships.

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A parental rights group on Wednesday filed a civil rights complaint against a South Carolina school district over teacher groups that “appear to exclude individuals based on their race.”
Parents Defending Education filed a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Charleston-County-School-District_OCR-_Redacted-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> with the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Education over multiple racially-focused “affinity groups” hosted by the Charleston County School District. The complaint, first shared with The Daily Wire, says that the groups violate federal civil rights laws by limiting participation by race. 
The <a href="https://archive.ph/oCimf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">groups</a> in question are the “Hispanic Latino Affinity Group” and the “Black Educator Affinity Group.” 
“Charleston County School District has affinity group programming that is not open to all. The District allows only some teachers to participate in affinity group programming and participation is based on their race,” the complaint reads. “Descriptions of individual affinity groups in the District appear to exclude individuals based on their race.”
According to the district’s website, the Black Educator Affinity Group is “a space for black educators to connect to one another, support one another, and celebrate one another in a safe space.”
The mission of the Hispanic Latino Affinity Group is to promote “professional development and career advancement opportunities” for Hispanic and Latino employees in the district and to “create a Hispanic-Latino Affinity committee to support recruitment, retention, and innovation among CCSD Hispanic-Latino employees.”
“Both affinity groups encourage hiring employees based on race and offer professional development opportunities exclusively for black and Hispanic-Latino employees,” the complaint says. “Furthermore, while other Districts ensures affinity group bodies are accessible to all teachers, Charleston County School District evades responsibility for the practices of its affinity groups, stating that ‘each affinity group establishes its own mission and goal.’”
The complaint argues that the affinity groups could run afoul of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federal funding from going toward entities practicing racial discrimination, and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. 
The school district told The Daily Wire that all employee were welcome to join the affinity groups.
&#8220;Charleston County School District&#8217;s affinity groups were designed to provide support, mentorship, and networking opportunities for educators. Participation was completely voluntary, and all employees were welcome to join,&#8221; a spokesman told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Leaders are currently reviewing all district practices that could be affected by the presidential administration&#8217;s orders to ensure all CCSD students receive the support and educational opportunities they need, including any necessary actions. Under the guidance of legal counsel, CCSD leadership met on February 25, February 26, and March 4 to advance discussions and implement any appropriate changes,&#8221; the district added.
Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily told The Daily Wire that it would continue to challenge districts like Charleston that promote racially-focused programs and opportunities. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s grotesque that districts continue to separate teachers, students, and community members on the basis of skin color, and PDE will continue to file complaints about these types of racially segregated programs until such practices end,” she said. “Where there&#8217;s smoke there&#8217;s fire — and sadly, when a school spends finite time and resources organizing events like this, we often see other discriminatory practices on the books as well.&#8221;  
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing all federal funding to be cut off for school districts that promote racial and gender ideology in an effort to go after the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at schools across the country.

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A professional development group sponsored by Procter &amp; Gamble and other companies has quietly altered the requirements for a race-based internship program that might flout federal non-discrimination law.
Called “BLAC,” an acronym for “Building Leaders and Creators,” the <a href="https://www.blacinternship.org/#our-mission">internship program</a> aims to diversify the advertising industry and explicitly employs racial eligibility criteria on applicants.
“Applicants to the BLAC internship program should identify as Black or BIPOC,” the program’s requirements <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241212175045/https://www.blacinternship.org/">previously read</a>. The site has been modified since The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment to the organization, with the site now <a href="https://www.blacinternship.org/#what">specifying</a> that applicants should &#8220;be a member of a group underrepresented in advertising or marketing.&#8221; BLAC did not respond to a request for comment.
David Pivtorak, a lawyer who has active cases <a href="https://www.piv4law.com/new-blog/2022/8/23/former-american-express-employee-files-nationwide-discrimination-class-action">against</a> American Express for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/amex-pushed-white-employees-promoted-black-colleagues-meet-racial-quotas-lawsuit-alleges">alleged racial discrimination</a> against white employees, explained that this program may be against the law.
“Generally speaking, racially discriminatory internships are unlawful under various state and federal laws,” Pivtorak told The Daily Wire. “If the entity that created this internship or the ad agencies where the interns are sent to work are subject to Title VII, or equivalent state laws, then the program would certainly violate anti-discrimination laws as it specifically discriminates against individuals solely based on race.”
He went on to add that “the main question is whether the interns could be considered ‘employees’ under the relevant statutes” before explaining that the interns are paid “is a significant factor in determining employee status.”
A <a href="https://vimeo.com/641669799">promotional video</a> for the program calls it “a paid summer internship for black creative thinkers at independent advertising, marketing, and creative agencies across the country.” BLAC also describes itself as “a champion for the more diverse and inclusive advertising industry of the future” that seeks to “inspire and be inspired by a new generation of Black talent.” Accepted applicants participate in the 12-week-long internship opportunity at one of BLAC’s 29 advertising host agencies.
The program is one of a wide array of internship opportunities and job postings uncovered by The Daily Wire that appear to engage in racial discrimination. A number of large companies, including Apple, Oracle, Nascar, McKinsey and Company, and several others, have hosted programs that imposed racial selection criteria on applicants.
Now the incoming Trump administration will have the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-could-crack-down-on-dei-fueled-discrimination-against-whites-and-asians">opportunity to crack down</a> on companies that discriminate against white and Asian applicants in service of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement.
BLAC boasts several sponsors, including Procter &amp; Gamble. The company’s logo is accompanied by a statement explaining its support for the race-based program.
“Racial inequality is the inescapable reality of America. It didn’t begin with us, but it can end with us. If we choose to act. For years, we have used our voice as a leading advertiser to shine a light on inequality, highlight bias, and spark dialogue that leads to understanding and action,” the consumer goods company states. “Through BLAC, we are proud to support an initiative that will help create more representative, equitable and powerful work across the advertising industry, shaping our world for the better.”
Procter &amp; Gamble did not respond to a request for comment.
In addition to the internship program, BLAC also advertises a slate of <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5ffc9aaa9c8615838b6941ed/6706ca8c0518034dea3e73ba_BLAC%20DEI%20Offerings%202025.pdf">DEI programming</a> options from other organizations, intended for advertising agencies. “Central to the mission of BLAC is helping advertising agencies build and sustain environments that support the success, growth, and ultimate leadership of diverse talent,” the organization says.
One consultancy offers companies on-call DEI specialists for $1,200. The group also charges over $6,000 to “develop and deliver EDI-specific employee survey to unpack the current state of the organization,&#8221; adding that it &#8220;will identify trends and provide high-level recommendations for change based on results.”

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A coalition of conservative legal firms on Monday demanded a federal investigation into the American Bar Association over its racially-focused internship opportunities. 
The groups announced Monday that they had filed a Title VII civil rights charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its “illegal” selection process for several programs, including the “Diversity Clerkship Program.” The bar association, which accredits law schools throughout the country, was challenged over its programs by the American Civil Rights Project, the Center for Equal Opportunity, and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. 
“At this stage, it seems irrefutable that the ABA’s continuance of these programs and continuation of these advertisements of these programs, all with their still-embedded discrimination, must qualify as intentional discrimination in violation of Title VII,” a copy of the complaint sent to the EEOC shared with The Daily Wire says. 
The programs in question include the “Diversity Clerkship Program,” the “Judicial Intern Opportunity Program,” “Business Law Fellows,” and the “Diversity Fellowship.” 
Applicants for the clerkship program <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/about/awards-initiatives/diversity/">must</a> be a “student of color,” “women,” “law students with disabilities,” or a student who has “overcome social or economic disadvantages.”
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The judicial intern <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/about/awards-initiatives/jiop/program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a> is a full-time six-week program for students to work with federal or state judges. Applicants of this program <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/litigation/jiop/jiop-eligibility.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">must</a> be “members of groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the profession, including students from minority racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, veterans, students who are economically disadvantaged, students who identify as LGBTQ+, women, and others.”
The Business Law Fellows Program and the Diversity Fellowship have similar qualification requirements. 
“These individuals and organizations have become aware that the ABA has created a series of systematic violations of Title VII and other federal statutes,” the letter to the EEOC says. “Despite the ABA’s resulting affirmative knowledge of the illegality of these programs, the ABA has not only failed to cure these programs of their illegality, it has retained and extended them.”
The ABA declined to comment.
Both the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and the American Civil Rights project have previously voiced objections to the American Bar Association’s “diversity” programs. 
“The ABA’s employment practices are flaunting the law and morality,” said Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Associate Counsel Skylar Croy. “Regardless of race, creed, or background, everyone should be treated equally. Despite the initial successes at the federal level, the fight for true equality is far from over.”
The push to flush diversity, equity, and inclusion programs out of the ABA comes as the Trump administration has moved to eliminate DEI from the federal government. President Donald Trump has signed numerous executive orders instructing federal agencies and departments to get rid of DEI programs and emphasized the government will focus on merit-based qualifications.

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International accounting giant PwC is hosting a career advancement conference for college students that discriminates against white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race.
The program, called the <a href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/careers/entry-level/programs-events/career_preview.html">Career Preview</a>, is a three-day experience set to take place this summer in Orlando that imposes race-based selection criteria on applicants. Selected candidates will have the cost of their travel and accommodations covered by PwC.
“Career Preview is a chance to really see what PwC is about, how your major fits in at the firm, and begin a professional relationship with PwC employees invested in your personal and professional growth,” the company&#8217;s site says before listing off the discriminatory eligibility requirements.
The program’s “eligibility guidelines” explains that “PwC’s Career Preview is a three-day experience designed for high-performing individuals who” self identify “as a member of traditionally underrepresented group in the professional services industry.” It specifically adds that “traditionally underrepresented” means “Black or Latino/Hispanic.”
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The Career Preview application again states that applicants must be black or Hispanic and asks applicants, “Do you self-identify as a member of traditionally underrepresented groups in the professional services industry?” again explaining that the term refers specifically to those who are “Black or Latino/Hispanic.” The question is mandatory and students are not able to apply without answering it.
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The company could run the risk of facing a legal challenge over its race-based selection criteria, Heritage Foundation Legal Fellow GianCarlo Canaparo told The Daily Wire.
“With respect to applicants, an employer cannot ‘limit, segregate, or classify’ them in a way that ‘deprives or tends to deprive’ anyone of an employment opportunity. The question here is not whether PwC is classifying its applicants — it is — but whether these programs increase the chances of getting hired permanently,” Canaparo explained.
“PwC will say, we only &#8216;encourage&#8217; certain groups to apply, but all are welcome,” he added.“That&#8217;s a technical nicety, not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It will provoke a fact-finding investigation into PwC&#8217;s true intentions.”
And with President Donald Trump back in office, the company could be taking on significant risk by embracing race-based selection policies.
“It&#8217;s worth remembering that abstract legal opinions are only so useful. What really matters is how the Trump administration reads the law,” Canaparo told The Daily Wire. “I am confident that the Trump administration will take an aggressive position against any programs that even seem discriminatory. So, even if the particulars of a given program are close to the line, and even if a particular judge might eventually side with PwC, the Trump Administration can put PwC through a legal and regulatory blender over these policies while it presses its reading of the Civil Rights Act.”
PwC did not respond to a request for comment.
PwC hosts another program, called the <a href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/careers/entry-level/programs-events/start.html">Start Experience</a>, which is also intended for people of certain racial backgrounds. The career readiness and leadership program, which the company says is “uniquely designed for high-performing college sophomores/rising juniors looking to grow their business and professional acumen, and inclusive mindset,” guarantees selected applicants an internship offer at the company. Students from all racial backgrounds are encouraged to apply, notably leaving out whites and East Asians.
“As part of the firm’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we encourage students who identify as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or two or more races, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and/or first generation college students to apply,” the program’s eligibility requirements read.
The company is also a government contractor, making it subject to Trump’s recent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/">executive order</a> intended to bring an end to DEI in government contracting.
“That order requires contractors to agree to a term in their contracts forbidding them from engaging in DEI practices and from discriminating,” Canaparo told The Daily Wire.
“If they fail to abide by that term, they&#8217;re subject to nonpayment on their contracts, federal enforcement, and qui tam suits,” which allow individuals to sue on behalf of the federal government and receive a percentage of the damage payments.
The race-based PwC programs are part of a broader trend, however. A series of Daily Wire investigations revealed that companies like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exxonmobil-hosts-discriminatory-internship-open-only-to-hispanic-applicants">ExxonMobil</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibm-hosts-internships-that-bar-whites-asians-and-men-with-exception-for-men-who-identify-as-women">IBM</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race">Apple</a>, and more have imposed race-based selection criteria on career advancement programs.
Upon taking office, Trump signed an executive order <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/">purging DEI</a> from executive agencies of the federal government. The Trump administration now has the opportunity to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-could-crack-down-on-dei-fueled-discrimination-against-whites-and-asians">quash DEI discrimination</a> among corporations and non-profit organizations by issuing consent decrees, initiating investigations, and filing lawsuits against those who run afoul of non-discrimination law.
He also appointed Andrea Lucas, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-fierce-dei-critic-leading-trumps-equal-employment-opportunity-commission">vocal critic</a> of discriminatory DEI policies, to serve as the Acting Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“Race or sex cannot be even a plus factor, a tiebreaker, or a tipping point in the employment context. People sometimes think that race or sex can be part of the equation for an employment decision if race or sex is not the sole factor, the exclusive factor, or the deciding factor,” Lucas <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/Commissioner_Lucas_Remarks_-_76th_NYU_Annual_L%26E_Conference.pdf">said in one panel discussion</a>. “That is dead wrong.”

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Consulting Giant Bans Whites And Asians From Career Advancement Seminar

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed a civil rights complaint on Wednesday against Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center over several scholarship programs the legal firm says illegally discriminate based on race and sex. 
The <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HHS-OCR-Complaint-Cincinnati-Childrens-Race-Sex-Discrimination-12-17-2024-FINAL-with-Encl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a>, filed with the Office of Civil Rights for the Department of Health and Human Services, took aim at four specific programs offered by the hospital to “underrepresented groups.” WILL said the programs violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federal dollars from going toward racially discriminatory programs, and asked federal officials to launch an investigation. 
“Despite a national shortage of healthcare workers, some major healthcare systems in America still want to use taxpayer funds to discriminate on the basis of race and sex against otherwise eligible candidates,” WILL lawyer Cara Tolliver told The Daily Wire. “This is not just illegal, it’s nonsensical. The healthcare system cannot care for patients effectively, safely and efficiently, when medical education and training programs prioritize irrelevant identity politics over individual merit and essential qualities.”
The programs in question are the William K. Schubert Minority Nursing Scholarship, the Jean Turner Minority Scholarship for Medical Imaging Technology, the Biomedical Research Internship for Minority Students (BRIMS), and the Administrative Fellowship Program. 
According to the hospital, the <a href="https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/careers/diverse-workforce/schubert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goal</a> of the William K. Schubert Minority Nursing Scholarship, which provides $2,750 in tuition aid to pediatric nursing students, is to “increase the diversity of registered nurses.” Applicants must be from an “underrepresented group,” which excludes white women. 
The Ohio hospital defines those underrepresented as “male nurses/nursing students and nurses/nursing students who are American Indian or Alaskan Native, Black or African American, Hawaiian Native or other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino, and/or Asian including Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian, Thai, or Vietnamese/Southeast Asian.”
WILL said that this program disfavors “students who are not men and do not meet certain racial criteria — if these race- and sex-based barriers do not disqualify such students from the Hospital’s ‘minority’ scholarship entirely.”
Similarly, the Jean Turner Minority Scholarship <a href="https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/careers/diverse-workforce/medical-imaging-scholarship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stipulates</a> that recipients must be from an “under-represented ethnic group in the field of radiology.” This scholarship can cover up to $5,000 in tuition for a school year and was created “to create opportunities for people of color in the field of radiology.”
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Another initiative WILL argues is discriminatory is the Biomedical Research In Medicine and Science (BRIMS) program, designed for “underrepresented” populations to gain summer experience in a lab doing academic research.
“While candidates meeting the racial criteria can immediately qualify for BRIMS, candidates who do not meet the program’s racial criteria must either find some other way than skin color to demonstrate their disadvantage, or lose their eligibility altogether,” WILL wrote in its complaint. 
The hospital’s “Administrative Fellowship” program “strongly encourages applicants from historically underrepresented groups in healthcare — including diverse groups based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
This program allows recipients to gain experience running operations at a children’s hospital and academic center. 
“Treating individuals as racial or gender archetypes to ‘fix’ group differences is beyond the remit of a healthcare entity,” WILL wrote of the programs. “And in any event, such discrimination is illegal: Title VI and the [Affordable Care Act] do not permit federal funding recipients, like the Hospital, to operate their education, training and scholarship opportunities in this manner.”
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WILL also highlighted how the hospital keeps a <a href="https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/diversity-equity-inclusion">running total</a> of its workforce “diversity” on its website, showing how many men vs. women are on staff and how many white vs. “POC” (people of color) work at the institution. 
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire. 
Federal officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-investigating-after-cleveland-clinic-accused-of-treating-white-individuals-differently" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously opened</a> an investigation into another Ohio hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, after WILL demanded a civil rights probe into the provider’s “Minority Stroke Program” and “Minority Men’s Health Center.&#8221;

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> school denied extra reading help to a white dyslexic student because of his race, according to a conservative legal firm.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) <a href="https://will-law.org/wisconsin-school-denies-help-to-dyslexic-student-based-on-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this week that a young boy attending King Elementary School in Green Bay was discriminated against because of a policy that prioritized literacy help to black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. WILL says that the policy, found in its “school success” plan, violates federal civil rights law and should be scrapped.
The <a href="https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1729526359/gbapsorg/jzfqjk8mb1yobfm3r4jt/KingSchoolSuccessPlan2024-25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> in question details that part of the school’s action plan should be “intentional work educating our focus students, prioritizing additional resources to First Nations, Black, and Hispanic students.”
Colbey Decker told WILL that when she attempted to get extra reading help for her son because of his dyslexia, he was put on a waiting list for almost a year before he got help as part of a group. WILL says that Decker’s child would have been given individualized help if he had been black or Hispanic.
“The school implied to me that my child would already be receiving one-on-one reading support if he were Black, Hispanic, or First Nation,” Decker said after reaching out to the school’s principal about the policy. “I was speechless. I think we need to help every student in need, and using the guise of ‘diversity’ simply creates more division and hurts all students.”
In a <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.9.24-Colbey-Decker-Ltr-to-GBAPSD.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the Green Bay Public School District, WILL called for the policy to be ended.
“This policy, while purporting to address disparities, discriminates against students of other races who are equally in need of support,” WILL lawyers Cory Brewer and Dan Lennington wrote. “Race is used both as a negative and as a stereotype, in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The district’s policy fails to treat students as individuals and disregards their unique needs.”
Brewer told The Daily Wire that the firm was considering different legal responses to the policy, including filing a lawsuit or federal complaint. She said that the best-case scenario would be that the policy is rescinded and replaced with a colorblind standard that treats every student equally.
“The school where our client’s son attends has a written plan that explicitly says additional resources will be prioritized to certain students based on race,” she told The Daily Wire. “Obviously, that means that other students are considered not a priority.”
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The school district denied that the race-based policy was in place at the district level in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-mom-mulls-lawsuit-alleging-school-districts-pushing-horrifying-race-based-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to Fox.
“The District received the letter from WILL yesterday and we are investigating the allegations. However, we can state unequivocally that the District does not have a policy that includes the language included in the letter,” the district said. “All District policies must be approved by the Board of Education and no such policy language exists.&#8221;
Brewer told The Daily Wire that she was optimistic that the federal civil rights laws would be able to be applied to similar cases with the incoming Trump administration.
“With the Trump administration coming in, we hope to have an opportunity for Title VI to be enforced in a way that ensures all individuals, such as our client’s son, to be treated as individuals and for students who need help to get help without regard to race,” she said.

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The University of Rhode Island was hit with a federal civil rights complaint over more than 50 scholarship opportunities that discriminate against students on the basis of their race and sex.
The complaint, filed to the United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, alleges that the university engaged in “pervasive and systemic” discrimination via its scholarship programs, which use racial and sexual characteristics in their selection criteria.
“We bring this civil rights complaint against the University of Rhode Island (“URI”) for offering, promoting and administering fifty-one (51) student scholarships that discriminate based on race and/or sex,” reads the complaint from the <a href="https://equalprotect.org/">Equal Protection Project</a>.
“The discrimination is so pervasive and systematic that urgent action by OCR is needed before the scholarships come up for reapplication in the spring 2025 semester.”
One of the scholarships listed in the complaint, the Bank of America Scholarship, is designated for “two four-year scholarships for minority students, preferably one male and one female.” There’s also the Citizens Bank Scholarship, which similarly states that it “will be awarded to minority students with financial need who live in Rhode Island.”
&#8220;The discrimination in scholarships at URI is shocking in its breadth, far exceeding any other university we have seen at the Equal Protection Project,” the organization’s founder, William A. Jacobson, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;URI does not even try to hide the discriminatory barriers, they are all detailed on the URI website.&#8221;
The scholarships from Bank of America and Citizens Bank are just two of the 51 scholarships that the Equal Protection Act have called to the attention of the Office of Civil Rights.
There’s also the Dr. Robert L. Carothers Student Leadership Endowment, which “shall provide annual scholarships to URI students of color who provide leadership in broad university programs,” while the Deborah Godfrey Brown Nursing Scholarship will go to “undergraduate minority students possessing a strong passion for a career in clinical nursing.”
“The endowment shall be used to fund a scholarship annually for a Hispanic or African American male undergraduate student,” reads the description of yet another scholarship.
“In Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., Justice Scalia aptly noted that ‘discrimination on the  basis of race is illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, inherently wrong and destructive of a democratic society,’” the complaint points out. “This is true regardless of which race suffers –  discrimination against white applicants is just as unlawful as discrimination against black or other non-white applicants.”
Some scholarships are only open to women. The Dr. M. Beverly Swan Scholarship Endowment, for example, “shall be awarded to a female student majoring in English,” while the Gene Bucci Family Scholarship is reserved for a female student studying  Civil Engineering who is a Rhode Island resident.
Jacobson is now urging the University of Rhode Island to be investigated over the wide array of discriminatory scholarships.
&#8220;We call upon OCR, both under the current leadership and the incoming Trump administration leadership, to prioritize the investigation of URI in light of the systematic discrimination taking place.”
<a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/OCR-Complaint-University-of-Rhode-Island-1.pdf">Read the complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project</a>.

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Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice could stop corporations from implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that disadvantage white and Asian applicants.
As The Daily Wire has reported, companies across industries appear to have discriminated against white and Asian individuals through their DEI programs, which prioritize hiring and promoting black applicants and other &#8220;underrepresented racial minorities.&#8221; David Pivtorak, a lawyer who has active cases <a href="https://www.piv4law.com/new-blog/2022/8/23/former-american-express-employee-files-nationwide-discrimination-class-action">against</a> American Express for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/amex-pushed-white-employees-promoted-black-colleagues-meet-racial-quotas-lawsuit-alleges">alleged racial discrimination</a> against white employees, told The Daily Wire that the Trump Justice Department will have a wide range of tools at its disposal to combat DEI discrimination.
“The DOJ has a panoply of remedies it can seek to address the discrimination that results from these DEI programs,&#8221; Pivtorak said.
The department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division, for instance, “can initiate investigations&#8221; to obtain &#8220;a wide variety of a company&#8217;s internal data and documents,&#8221; or file lawsuits to take &#8220;depositions of high-level executives and even the CEO or Board of Directors if they were directly involved in implementing these DEI programs.”
The Justice Department could also go further, issuing a &#8220;consent decree,&#8221; which would let the department &#8220;oversee a company&#8217;s operations for years to come.&#8221; Such a move — which &#8220;has an extreme coercive effect&#8221; — could push companies to abandon DEI programs outright, Pivtorak says.
“From a cost-benefit perspective, companies may decide that the hassle of maintaining DEI is just not worth it, especially since these are not profitable endeavors but are mostly there to keep a small contingent of vocal activists satisfied.”
Reporting in the lead-up to the presidential election <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-reverse-racism-civil-rights">indicated</a> that Trump’s allies could apply laws from the Civil Rights era to cases of “anti-white racism,” in which DEI programs utilize racially discriminatory criteria. Stephen Miller, whose America First Legal filed a <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/554361-federal-judge-says-biden-restaurant-fund-discriminated-against-white-male/">successful suit</a> against a $29 billion pandemic relief program that was found to have discriminated against white male business owners, will be at the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-stephen-miller-policy-immigration-9cc6ad3118779b23bff88022ca5e2260">forefront</a> of these efforts as Trump&#8217;s deputy chief of staff for policy.
Should the Trump Justice Department decide to prosecute companies that engage in discriminatory practices, it would have no shortage of programs to investigate.
At Oracle, for example, whites and Asians <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oracle-internship-scholarship-opportunities-bar-whites-and-asians-on-the-basis-of-race">were ineligible</a> for two career advancement programs reserved for “African American/Black, American Indian – Alaska Native, Hispanic American” applicants.
IBM hosted two internship opportunities, including one that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibm-hosts-internships-that-bar-whites-asians-and-men-with-exception-for-men-who-identify-as-women">barred</a> white and Asian applicants and another that barred male applicants — unless those men identified as women.
The company’s “internship for underrepresented minorities” said that “applicants must be underrepresented minorities” and listed the approved racial backgrounds of “African American, Hispanic, or Indigenous.” The “internship for undergraduate women” required that applicants be female, but caveated that “all students who present or identify as women and/or trans women,” were also eligible.
David Bernstein, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, told The Daily Wire that the programs “clearly violate Title VII,” which “does not allow for race or sex-based preferences for employment except perhaps as part of bona fide affirmative action programs initiated to redress past discriminatory policies.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/missouri-attorney-general-sues-tech-giant-ibm-alleging-discrimination-against-whites-asians-men">sued</a> IBM over other acts of alleged discrimination against white and Asian job applicants.
Microsoft <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-brags-that-it-pays-white-employees-less-than-non-white-employees-despite-same-job-title">boasted</a> in a report that it paid non-white employees slightly more than white employees, even when they had the same job titles. And Apple’s entrepreneur camp development program, where founders could receive “one-on-one code-level guidance from Apple engineers,” required companies to have personnel from certain demographic backgrounds in certain roles. Apple’s underrepresented founders program <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apple-entrepreneur-camp-program-bars-applicants-based-on-race">required</a> companies to have “a black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous founder, cofounder, or CEO” as well as a “black, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous, or female developer.”
There’s also NASCAR’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-illegal-nascar-bans-white-applicants-from-diversity-internship">diversity internship</a> program, which Bernstein called “blatantly illegal&#8221; because it barred white people from applying. NASCAR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nascar-takes-down-blatantly-illegal-racial-requirement-for-internship-after-daily-wire-report">amended</a> its internship program and removed the racial requirements in the wake of The Daily Wire investigation.
Robert Kraft’s company, best known for owning the New England Patriots, appeared to engage in anti-white discrimination when it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-england-patriots-owner-under-fire-for-discriminatory-bipoc-job-requirement">advertised a job posting</a> that listed “BIPOC,” a term that means “black, indigenous, people of color,” as a job qualification.
“The goal of this program is to diversify the future of the sports and entertainment management industry by providing opportunity and access to BIPOC candidates connected to the New England community,” the job posting said.
Voya Financial was equally brazen when it <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/04/20/investment-management-firm-voya-excludes-whites-from-internship-scholarship/">barred</a> white students from its Financial Services Diversity Scholars Program. Applicants for the now-defunct program were only eligible if they self-identified as “Black or African American; Hispanic or Latino; American Indian or Alaska Native American; Asian; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or multi-racial.”
Voya Financial is just one entity among a long list of banking and financial institutions that implemented discriminatory DEI programs.
One Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-top-banks-host-programs-that-discriminate-against-white-and-asian-men">investigation</a> revealed that several of the most prominent banks in America advertised racially discriminatory DEI programs. A Morgan Stanley summer training program was limited to “historically underrepresented populations.” The eligibility criteria explained that the term referred to “women, Hispanic, Black, veteran, disabled, LGBTQ+, and first-generation college student populations.”
J.P. Morgan’s now discontinued “launching leaders undergraduate program” was only open to “Black, Hispanic and Native American sophomores and juniors from all majors who are interested in financial services and have a 3.5 GPA minimum,” while a Wells Fargo fellowship was limited to “underrepresented candidates,” including “female, Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic, Asian, Native American/Alaskan Native and LGBTQIA+ students, as well as protected veterans and people with disabilities.”
U.S. Bank’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy Manager Astrid Benedetto celebrated a career advancement program from McKinsey and Company that appeared to discriminate against white professionals, The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-bank-pharmaceutical-giant-participated-in-mckinsey-training-that-banned-white-people">revealed</a>. The consulting giant hosted race-specific professional development programs, respectively titled the “Black Leadership Academy,” the “Hispanic and Latino Leadership Academy,” and the “Asian Leadership Academy.”

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A parental rights group requested a federal probe of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> school district after it hosted an event last year that explicitly excluded white faculty members, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Parents Defending Education sent a letter on Monday requesting that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate the Acalanes Union High School District in Lafayette, California, for racial discrimination. The group said that the district was violating federal civil rights law by offering racially exclusionary programming for faculty members. The request comes after the district <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/high-school-asks-employees-avoid-inviting-white-peers-event-people-of-color-due-mistrust" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> last year after a school employee held an event for staff that left out white people. 
“PDE and its members oppose racial discrimination and political indoctrination in America’s schools. Acalanes Union High School District is offering additional programming for employees of color that are not offered to all employees in the district,” Parents Defending Education wrote in a letter to the director and regional attorney of the Oakland field office for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 
The complaint stems from an incident last year when district’s director of student equity and inclusion Lynnā McPhatter-Harris hosted an event for all non-white employees in the district. In an email, she sent out an invitation for an event saying for an event for non-white district employees. 
&#8220;We are looking forward to seeing our people of color in the district. Please invite any employee of color to this event,” she wrote. 
&#8220;Be reminded that we have avoided inviting people that are not of color as there remains feelings of uneasiness and mistrust and we need this to be a safe space for our people of color,&#8221; the email said. &#8220;Please reach out to me if you have any questions of concerns.&#8221;
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Parents Defending Education said that the district was guilty of employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act over the programming. The district did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment on whether there had been any more similar events. 
“Acalanes Union High School likewise cannot exclude employees based on their race. We ask that your office promptly investigate the allegations in this complaint, act swiftly to remedy unlawful policies and practices, and order appropriate relief,” the group wrote. 
PDE also drew attention in its letter to language from a contractual agreement between the Acalanes Education Association and Acalanes Union High School District that includes language about teachers promoting equity in the classroom. The group has focused on highlighting how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have been adopted across the country.

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A federal judge this week ruled against a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden-Harris</a> administration program that allocated around $37 billion in federal road contracts for businesses owned by women and racial minorities, raising questions about the future of a decades-old affirmative action program.
Since the 1980s, the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program has required around 10% of federal dollars allocated for road construction contracts to go to women and certain racial minorities. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Biden signed in 2021, reauthorized the DBE and set aside $37 billion for eligible recipients.
This year, two small businesses sued the Transportation Department, saying that the DBE program caused them to lose out on business. On Monday, Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/OPINION.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the Biden-Harris administration could not enforce the DBE&#8217;s affirmative action quotas against the businesses.
“The Court is keenly aware of the past discrimination that certain groups of people have faced in this country,” Tatenhove wrote. “And the Court is sure that the federal government has nothing but good intentions in trying to remedy past wrongs. But remedying those wrongs must still pass constitutional muster. The federal government cannot classify people in such a manner that violates the principles of equal protection.”
This is the latest caste that builds off the Supreme Court&#8217;s June 2023 ruling that affirmative action was unconstitutional. One federal judge <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-03-06/a-federal-judge-has-ordered-a-us-minority-business-agency-to-serve-all-races" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the Minority Business Development Agency needed to be open to working with business owners of all races, while another judge <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/07/sba-8a-program-ruling-affirmative-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the Small Business Administration could not distribute contracts based on the claim that certain races are inherently disadvantaged.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mid-America Milling and Bagshaw Trucking. The businesses, which are owned in part by white males and operate in Kentucky and Indiana, routinely bid on federal contracts. Mid-America says it has lost out on 82 contracts in Indiana since January 2022 because of the DBE program.
In his decision, Van Tatenhove wrote that both companies have “previously lost out on federally funded contracts to DBE firms, even when Plaintiffs’ bids were lower.” 
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WILL lawyer Daniel Lennington told The Daily Wire that the decision was a major blow for the Biden-Harris administration’s “equity agenda,” which pushes race-based programs throughout the federal government. 
Lennington noted that after a period of discovery, WILL would ask for a final decision from the judge that would block any business from being subject to the DBE program. 
“The DBE program is really baked into the DNA of road building in America and companies all across America just assume that this program is never going to go anywhere,” he said. “We believe that’s unconstitutional and it hurts real people that have real businesses every day.&#8221;

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