Ready to Call Out Backsliders on DEI [Video]

Morial, Business Groups Challenged Fortune 500

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Kendra Lusty outlined the differences between diversity, equity and inclusion in 2022 for Access Perks.com. (Credit: AccessPerks.com)

By Robin Washington

The names of Fortune 500 companies who have backtracked on corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs since a Republican-led onslaught against those efforts will soon be made public.

That’s the vow of Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, speaking at the Journal-isms Roundtable on “How to counter the assault on diversity, equity and inclusion,” held via Zoom on April 11.

“We’re gonna have to, you know, expose them!” Morial told journalists and educators at the Roundtable featuring national civil rights figures discussing efforts to curtail, or outright outlaw, DEI in schools, government and private industry, including journalism.

The calling-out was only one strategy discussed at the session. Patrice Willoughby (pictured), senior vice president for global policy and impact for the NAACP, said, “We need to …