{"id":40338,"date":"2025-05-01T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/trump-administration-exploits-landmark-civil-rights-act-to-fight-schools-diversity-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:42:40","slug":"trump-administration-exploits-landmark-civil-rights-act-to-fight-schools-diversity-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/trump-administration-exploits-landmark-civil-rights-act-to-fight-schools-diversity-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration exploits landmark civil rights act to fight schools\u2019 diversity initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Administration launches investigations on basis of 1964 Civil Rights Act, which rightwing activists are fighting to weaken<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/may\/01\/donald-trump-tariffs-immigration-economy-ukraine-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> has ramped up efforts to exploit civil rights laws to target diversity and equity initiatives on US campuses by characterizing them as discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts escalated this week when the Department of Education escalated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2025\/apr\/19\/harvard-trump-administration-timeline\">its attack <\/a>against Harvard University, announcing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/29\/trump-harvard-law-review-investigation\">investigation of the law school<\/a> over what it claims are discriminatory practices at the school\u2019s student-run journal, the Harvard Law Review. The investigation is one of dozens the administration has launched on the basis of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded programs from discriminating on the basis of race, color and national origin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/01\/trump-administration-civil-rights-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Administration launches investigations on basis of 1964 Civil Rights Act, which rightwing activists are fighting to weaken US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to exploit civil rights laws to target diversity and equity initiatives on US campuses by characterizing them as discriminatory. These efforts escalated this week when &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration exploits landmark civil rights act to fight schools\u2019 diversity initiatives\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/trump-administration-exploits-landmark-civil-rights-act-to-fight-schools-diversity-initiatives\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration exploits landmark civil rights act to fight schools\u2019 diversity initiatives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}