Stockholm is latest city to refuse 'bizarre' US request to abandon diversity

The Stockholm City Council has rejected the US embassy's demands that it roll back diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at the behest of the Trump administration. In his inauguration speech, US President Donald Trump vowed to end what he sweepingly but vaguely called efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”. This has translated into attempts to eliminate programmes in the United States that seek to encourage diversity and equality in education, the work force and beyond. In an email to the city's planning office dated April 29, the US embassy asked...