{"id":13450,"date":"2023-07-14T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/?p=13450"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:29:35","slug":"city-of-boston-retreats-from-diversity-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/our-impact\/economic-justice\/city-of-boston-retreats-from-diversity-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Boston Retreats from Diversity Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, CITY OF BOSTON RETREATS FROM DIVERSITY EFFORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers for Civil Rights learned that the City of Boston is conducting a \u201creview\u201d of the impact of the Supreme Court\u2019s affirmative action decision on \u201cany City and BPS policy.\u201d Taking place behind closed doors, this problematic \u201creview\u201d was not publicly announced or disclosed by the City.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City\u2019s legal department has placed key discussions surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion on pause until the completion of this purported \u201creview.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There\u2019s nothing to review here. <\/strong>It has been 15 days since the Supreme Court issued its extremely narrow ruling on affirmative action \u2013 a decision applicable <em>only<\/em> to the admission process for universities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is inconceivable that the City\u2019s legal department needs 15 days to realize it is not a university.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City purports to be a leader on issues of racial justice. True leadership means speaking out boldly, not searching for reasons to retreat. Instead, using a decision that has nothing to do with municipal operations as a justification, the City is immediately wilting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is alarming that the City is undermining critical DEI policies and initiatives at a time when the City should be leading the way in critical efforts to protect and promote diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the eve of the NAACP National Convention, the City should be proactively engaging with the community and pushing forward DEI efforts, not retreating like right-wing groups are hoping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, CITY OF BOSTON RETREATS FROM DIVERSITY EFFORTS Lawyers for Civil Rights learned that the City of Boston is conducting a \u201creview\u201d of the impact of the Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13451,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions\/13451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}