Aaron Sibarium

Harvard University won’t say whether it will sanction a dean who defended “rioting and looting” as legitimate “parts of democracy,” described “whiteness” as a “self-destructive ideology,” and said it was acceptable to wish death on President Donald Trump.

The public hospital system for Tarrant County, Texas, was hit with a federal civil rights complaint on Tuesday alleging that it discriminates in its procurement process for medical supplies. The complaint comes after the Washington Free Beacon reported last year that the hospital system, JPS Health, used a race-based scoring system to evaluate bids, in some cases giving more weight to "diversity and inclusion" than to the reputation of the vendor's services.

Trump Administration Lays Off Last of Minority Business Development Agency

New York University has reversed course and agreed to work with the Federalist Society to host the conservative scholar Ilya Shapiro on Oct. 7, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and three people familiar with the matter. 

New York University Law School appears to have canceled a Federalist Society event scheduled for Oct. 7 because administrators feared that protesters would disrupt it, according to two people familiar with the matter and emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The cancellation has raised concerns about the heckler’s veto and comes as the White House anti-Semitism task force has vowed to investigate NYU, which last year settled a lawsuit alleging that the university failed to crack down on unsanctioned anti-Israel protests.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to three people familiar with the investigation and screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Harvard University, where 33 student groups signed a statement blaming Israel for Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, now says that calling someone a "terrorist sympathizer" can violate the school's anti-discrimination policies, according to a mandatory training for all Harvard students obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Trump administration has determined that a federal program that doles out $350 million a year to "Hispanic-Serving Institutions" is unconstitutional and will not defend it in court, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The move will sunset one of the largest race-based grant programs in the United States and could be the death knell for scores of similar programs throughout the government.

Duke Medical School has adopted race-based promotion guidelines that reward doctors for recruiting and mentoring "BIPOC faculty" and "targeting specific groups of people," language attorneys say appears to violate civil rights law and could put the school in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

Before she became the acting president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board" and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy, according to text messages obtained by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

At the end of finals period each May, the Duke Law Journal hosts a two-week-long competition to select its next crop of editors. Applicants write a 12-page memo, or casenote, analyzing an appellate court decision, as well as a 500-word essay about what they would "contribute" to the journal.

The Michigan Law Review selects student editors based on race and gender. It discriminates against white authors in favor of women and minorities. And it tells editors to avoid citing white men whenever possible—instructing them to "use your best efforts to locate a source that gives voice to historically marginalized identities."

A month after the Trump administration began investigating the Harvard Law Review over allegations of race discrimination, the journal published a "factsheet" purporting to set the record straight.

When the Washington Free Beacon published documents showing how the Harvard Law Review selects articles based on race, the law review insisted those documents had been taken out of context.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s own data provides evidence of discrimination. The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its decision to freeze more than $2 billion in aid to the Ivy League school.

Forty-four of the nation’s largest law firms were hit with a discrimination complaint on Monday alleging that they use an outside staffing agency to hire interns based on race, putting Big Law on track for another clash with the Trump administration.

The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race.

Will this law review article "promote DEI values"? Does it cite scholars from "underrepresented groups"? Will it have "any foreseeable impact in enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion"? And why did one team of editors solicit "only white, male authors"?

The California Institute of Technology has changed the title of its top diversity official but kept the office she oversees intact, the latest example of how institutions are attempting to save their diversity programs by making largely cosmetic changes.

In November 2024, the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fined Townstone Financial, a small mortgage company in Chicago, Ill., $105,000 for statements the company’s owner had made about crime in the city. The police “are the only ones between that [area] turning into a real war zone and keeping it kind of where it’s at,” Barry Sturner said in 2016.