Racial Targeting
January 2025
President Trump rescinded Anti-Discrimination Executive Order 11246 signed in 1965 signed by President Lyndon Johnson
This order is a cornerstone of equal opportunity policy for federal contractors. Federal contractors were not allowed to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. President Trump repealed this entire order.
President Trump has also pressured schools and universities, private companies, law firms, from supporting previous commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. (SOURCE)
January 2025
President Trump Rescinded Prohibition of Segregated Facilities Executive Order 52.222-21
This order states that any contractor working for the federal government agrees that it does not and will not maintain or provide for its employees any segregated facilities at any of its establishments and that it does not and will not permit its employees to perform their services at any location under its control where segregated facilities are maintained. President Trump
repealed this entire order. (SOURCE)
President Trump fired Federal Black Leaders without Cause (click the image for resource)
Many of these Black Americans were the first to fill these roles.
Charles Q. Brown Jr.
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Carla Hayden
Head of Library of Congress
Gwynne Wilcox
Head of National Labor Relations Board
Robert Primus
Head of Surface Transportation Board
Alvin Brown
Head of National Transportation Safety Board
Peggy Carr
Commissioner of National Center for Education Statistics
Lisa Cook
Federal Reserve Board of Governors member (reinstated by a federal judge after President Trump fired her without legally sufficient cause)
DOGE Government Job Cuts have Disproportionate Effects on Black Federal Workers
18% of the federal workforce is Black, with some agencies — including the Postal Service, the Department of Education, HUD, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Veterans Affairs — employing more than 25% Black workers. (Black Americans comprise 12% of the total civilian workforce.) These positions are distributed throughout the country and have long been regarded as a reliable pathway to the Black middle class. (SOURCE)
Black Unemployment is Surging Again
Under President Biden, Black unemployment reached a low of 4.8 percent. Under the Trump
Administration Black unemployment has risen to 7.4%. (SOURCE)
President Trump Issued Executive Order on Policing
Black Americans are already more than twice as likely as white Americans to experience force during police interactions. (SOURCE)
Environmental Justice Offices Eliminated under President Trump
The EPA’s office of Environmental Justice was created to enforce civil rights protections and
ensure Black communities are safe from environmental harms. It was dismantled as part of the anti-DEI agenda. (SOURCE)
June 2025
President Trump announced a travel ban targeting 19 countries, this list has now grown to 39 countries spanning Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Pacific countries.
This travel ban came days after President Trump declared Somalians were “garbage” and that
he wanted to ban all travel from “third world countries”. (SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2) (SOURCE 3)
June 2025
President Trump’s DOJ Civil Rights Division has dismissed or terminated many racial discrimination cases.
Including some cases where agreement had already been reached. (SOURCE)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
…responsible for enforcing fair housing laws. Under the Trump Administration, HUD has seen it staff cut by 45%. Former HUD workers say they were blocked from enforcing fair housing laws. (SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2)
Trump’s DEI Ban Erases Black Veterans’ Graves from Arlington Cemetery Website
April 29, 2026
Supreme Court rules 6-3 to Strike Down Protections Against Racial Gerrymandering by the States.
President Trump has appointed the last 3 Supreme Court Justices. The GOP majority Senate confirmed all his choices.
This Supreme Court on April 29, 2026 (Louisiana v. Callais) made another ruling against the Voting Rights Act of 1965. States can now ignore their black communities; and ensure they do not have black representation. States can carve up current black districts so that black citizens are split up into predominately white districts. Supreme Court Justice Kagan who was strongly against this ruling stated: “This will likely cause the largest reduction to minority representation since the end of reconstruction.”
Louisiana is in the middle of a primary, and the Governor just declare a State of Emergency to
halt these elections so that Louisiana’s maps can be redrawn. Louisiana has a 33 percent Black population; the governor’s goal is no black representation.
Governor Ron DeSantis and the Majority GOP House and Senate immediately announced the new gerrymandering map, with the intent to eliminate every black district possible.(SOURCE 1) (SOURCE 2)
May 4, 2026
Florida Passed Mid Decade Gerrymandered Maps.
Florida’s new redisticting maps in 2022 eliminated a predominantly Black district in North Florida, unseating one of the state’s few Black Representatives.
Immediately after the Supreme Court ruling on April 29th, 2026, Ron DeSantis published a new GOP legislative districting map. The main changes were aimed at the cities where there are more Black voters. These cities were carved up, minimizing the Back vote; with the result of reducing Black representation in the state of Florida.
In 2010, Florida voters overwhelmingly passed the Fair Districts Amendment, placing strict limits on partisan gerrymandering. Florida is one of several states with such protections, including Utah, where a judge struck down a similar GOP map last year after finding it violated a voter-approved ban.
Florida’s Supreme Court which has a 6 DeSantis appointees out of 7 justices, ruled in June 2026 not to take on the case; to rule on it after the 2026 election.
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