Eight months after the issuance of Executive Order 14173, the federal contracting community has entered a new compliance era, one defined not by the creation of Affirmative Action Plans, but by the ability to prove nondiscrimination through certification. The transition from Executive Order 11246 to EO 14173 may have simplified paperwork, but it also raised…
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When Executive Order 14173 was issued in January 2025, revoking Executive Order 11246, many federal contractors took a sigh of relief. To some, it appeared that decades of affirmative action planning and federal oversight had come to an end. Yet eight months later, the reality has become unmistakable: EO 14173 did not eliminate compliance requirements….
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August 28, 2025, marks the 62nd anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where over 250,000 people gathered to demand civil rights, economic justice, and an end to racial discrimination. The event became immortalized through Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a call for a nation where…
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Recently, a House Representative claimed that affirmative action “divides us.” This statement not only misrepresents the intent and impact of affirmative action but also ignores the painful history that made such policies necessary in the first place. Affirmative action was not born out of a desire to divide Americans—it was born out of a national…
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July 2, 2025, marks the 61st anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a historic piece of legislation that reshaped the American workplace, legal system, and society at large. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Civil Rights Act was a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement and a crucial step…
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