DEI TEST: Roll back? Push ahead? For many organizations, a critical choice

Matthew McNulty

07/18/2025

STAYING THE COURSE: Dawn Apajee, founder and president of professional staffing service City Personnel Inc., speaks to Recruiting Coordinator Adora Andrade, who is writing on the board. Apajee says the nature of City Personnel’s business – which provides legal, administrative, accounting and support staffing services – calls for a commitment to diversity. PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

The diversity pledges flooded corporate inboxes across the country as protests filled the streets over George Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. At the time, conversations about systemic racism were front and center, and Rhode Island – like much of the rest of the nation

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