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Podcast: Democracy Now!
Episode: Column — Trump’s Attack on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Provokes a Grassroots Backlash
Description: By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
This year, the presidential inauguration took place on the federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Trump fully exploited the opportunity, hijacking King’s memory to advance his agenda. In his inaugural address, Trump took immediate aim at diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. The bigotry embedded in Trump’s plans to “Make America Great Again” is stark–purging people of color and LGBTQIA people, not only from employment in the federal government, but from public life. But people have fought for too long, and too many have died, in the fight for equality.
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