Pappert: NES Prioritizing DEI Consulting Contract Even as Power Outages Persist

by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 29, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Nashville Electric Service (NES) was discussing internal diversity initiatives even as tens of thousands of customers remained without power following Winter Storm Fern. On Thursday’s edition of The Michael...

Dr. Carol Swain Previews New Book Titled, ‘Diversity Without Discrimination’

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 10, 2025 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Dr. Carol M. Swain, author and retired university professor who was tenured at Vanderbilt and Princeton, has published her latest book titled, Diversity Without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World. Swain sat down...

Tennessee’s Robby Starbuck Takes on New Role With the Heritage Foundation as a Visiting Fellow

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 9, 2025 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Robby Starbuck, Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker, recently took on a role at the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow to lead the conservative think tank’s capital markets initiative. The Heritage Foundation’s capital markets initiative...

Another Robby Starbuck Win for America: Distributor of Popular Beer Brands Latest to Drop DEI Initiatives

by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 9, 2025 | Culture, National, News, Tennessee

The beer import company Constellation Brands is the latest to scale back a number of its DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies after being investigated by Robby Starbuck, the political commentator and filmmaker from Tennessee announced on Tuesday. Last month,...

NAACP Tells Black Americans to Avoid Companies That Eliminated DEI

by Zachery Schmidt | Feb 17, 2025 | Economy, National, News

The NAACP released its Black Consumer Advisory (BCA) last week, which told black Americans to avoid companies that eliminated DEI programs. Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, many companies eliminated these woke programs. Robby...

Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson Warns, ‘Don’t Get Complacent, DEI is Not Going Away’

by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 14, 2025 | National, News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show

William Jacobson, president and director of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, is warning conservatives to avoid being “complacent” with President Donald Trump’s fight against DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies within the federal government, noting how...

Trump Administration to Review All Funding to NGOs

by Zachery Schmidt | Feb 7, 2025 | National, News, Policy

President Donald Trump signed an executive memo on Thursday that reviews all funding for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The memo said Trump’s administration will stop funding NGOs that “undermine” American interest. “The United States Government has provided...

DEI in Full Swing at Metro Nashville Government as Employees Encouraged to Participate in ‘Foundations of Conscious Inclusion’ Program

by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 27, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South

The Metro Nashville Government is continuing to embrace DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) despite a complete shutdown of such initiatives at the federal level. An email from a Metro Nashville Government employee obtained by The Tennessee Star shows that all Metro...

Target Latest Company to End DEI Policies Under Pressure from Tennessee Filmmaker Robby Starbuck

by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 24, 2025 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South

Target is the latest company to scale back several of its “woke” DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies after being investigated by Robby Starbuck, the political commentator and filmmaker from Tennessee announced Friday. Since June 2024, Starbuck and his team...

Ohio Bill Proposal Bans DEI in Higher Education

by Zachery Schmidt | Jan 23, 2025 | Education, News, Ohio, State News, The Midwest

An Ohio state senator introduced a bill Wednesday that bans DEI in higher education in Ohio. Senate Bill (SB) 1 would eliminate DEI “courses, training, litmus tests, required statements, and spending for any DEI initiatives or programs with the same intent,” according...