The Illinois State Legislature is attempting to pass a law that would prompt authorities to cease referring to criminals as “offenders” in one of the state’s correctional programs and to begin referring to them as “justice-impacted individuals.” House Bill 4409, in addition to adding members to the Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board, Illinois Department of Human Services, the Sangamon and…

Pennsylvania’s Erie County Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commission, otherwise known as “Diverse Erie,” dispersed $291,500 of grants to 25 minority-owned businesses as part of its Small Business Mini Grant program. This program in turn draws from Erie County’s portion of grants from the American Rescue Plan fund, which set aside $360 billion in funds for state, territorial, local, and tribal…

The Washington Post published an editorial Sunday in opposition to the use of diversity statements in academia, in spite of the publication’s general support for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. Entitled, “The Problem With Diversity Standards — And What To Do About Them,” the article began by describing the role played by diversity statements within the DEI framework, noting that…

Rocklin Unified School District’s (RUSD) school board has voted 4-1 to work alongside the Liberty Justice Center in order to battle the California Department of Education's (CDE) attempts to quash the district's parental notification policy. The decision on Wednesday came after the CDE filed a writ of mandate demanding that the district put an end to its policy of notifying parents of their…

Members of Congress and the Graham family offered their reflections on the life and legacy of “one of America’s greatest citizens and enduring heroes,” the late Reverend William ‘Billy’ Graham Jr. as his statue was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall on Thursday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA) observed that Graham was one of only four citizens who had both received the…

Quick-acting parishioners stopped and disarmed a teenager who entered a Catholic Church with a rifle in Abbeville, Louisiana during a first communion service. The 16-year-old suspect entered St. Mary Magdalen Church on Saturday carrying a rifle and dressed in a black, hooded sweatshirt, in spite of the warm weather. The suspect was quickly confronted by a number of parishioners who disarmed and…

The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to return the original Confederate-affiliated names of a pair of schools after the schools had been renamed in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd riots. Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School will have their respective pre-2020 names of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee. The schools were named after Confederate Generals…

IBM’s Red Hat subsidiary has been hit with a lawsuit over alleged anti-white and anti-male discrimination. America First Legal filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho on behalf of Allan Wood. Wood alleges that he was the subject of racial and sexual discrimination by Red Hat because of the company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policy, which sought “to remake…

A pair of business-related developments have demonstrated that while Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology may be experiencing a crackdown on campuses, some people are working overtime to ensure it continues to be propagated on a corporate level. The Daily Wire reported the scheduling of an event called the People of Color Career Fair, which is to be held on October 22. The event,…

In a surprising turn of events, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made the decision to stop requiring diversity statements as a part of its hiring process. In a decision reached on Monday, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, in conjunction with “the Provost, Chancellor, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, and all six academic deans,” announced that MIT would be focusing instead…