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During a Zoom-based town hall hosted on Tuesday evening by Harlem’s Fashion Row, an agency that promotes Black fashion designers, the mood was equally sober and defiant.
The groundswell of support that buoyed Black-owned brands in the months after the killing of George Floyd in 2020 has been ebbing away since last year, according to designers on the call. Legacy companies that supported efforts to diversify the fashion industry a few years ago are ending those programs. And tech platforms like Meta have openly and explicitly put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts they championed only a few years ago.
On top of it all, the newly inaugurated Trump administration immediately unleashed a salvo of blunt-force executive orders targeting diversity efforts in both the government and the private sector. In particular, one executive order signed on the president’s first day in office rescinded a six-decade-old order that prevents businesses from discriminating on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.”
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