President Donald Trump has never masked his hostility toward practices that benefit underrepresented groups in academia, business, and public service. Indeed, his first acts in office included discarding Civil Rights-era…

Attorneys for the U.S. Dept. of Transportation called the agency’s disadvantaged business enterprise program “unconstitutional” and asked a judge to block it from setting DBE contract goals as part of…

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed ending a four-decade-old program that mandates the hiring of minority- and women-owned businesses for federal transportation contracts. It could have major implications for thousands…

The Transportation Department initiative, which serves an estimated 49,000 contractors, was a key lifeline for many minority- and women-owned businesses.

The president’s move to revoke a ban on discrimination in federal contracting could have a chilling effect, but it will take an act of Congress to dismantle current programs.