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Not to put too fine a point on it, but there almost certainly would be no affirmative action without Martin Luther King. At the very least, it would not have started when it did. After having consulted with King and other civil rights leaders, President Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order 11246, which required federal contractors to engage in “affirmative action” to fight racial bias against Blacks. This mandate, along with the historic civil rights legislation of the 1960s for which King was primarily responsible, eventually led to what we now refer to as “DEI” – Diversity, Equity...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but there almost certainly would be no affirmative action without Martin Luther King. At the very least, it would not have started when it did. After having consulted with King and other civil rights leaders, President Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order 11246, which required federal contractors to engage in “affirmative action” to fight racial bias against Blacks. This mandate, along with the historic civil rights legislation of the 1960s for which King was primarily responsible, eventually led to what we now refer to as “DEI” – Diversity, Equity...

Mark Leonard welcomes David Miliband to discuss this year’s most pressing…

Four people are dead after two suspects murdered them before turning a gun on themselves and taking their own life.

A mother of three was brutally murdered by her husband in their Southwest Houston home in an apparent murder-suicide.