On Monday, Senate leader Phil Berger announced that the Senate will reconvene July 29 to hold override votes on seven Senate ...

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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins labeled federal programs designed to help Black farmers as "discriminatory," deciding to cut ...

The Education Department will release some previously withheld grant money for after-school programs days after 10 Republican ...

The Joe Biden administration designated the grants to fund groups that DHS now calls 'ideologically driven' for promoting DEI ...

The restored funding follows a ruling in early June from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granting a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of three of President ...

On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he announced an end to all federally supported diversity, equity and ...

It’s been just over a year since the University of North Carolina System repealed its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy, impacting 17 schools in the state. As the Trump administration dismantles ...

Five years ago, we weren’t so divided as a business community on supporting a broad range of initiatives. However, since ...

Higher education leaders told legislators Tuesday that each of the Commonwealth’s public schools is complying with a new law ...

A Republican lawmaker questioned a University of Kentucky administrator about a course offering in UK's Gender and Women’s ...

Candidates for Spartanburg County Sheriff met for a NAACP community forum. Questions revealed differences on several issues.