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It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. As the war on DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion continues, what kinds of IED, just reverse the letters, inequality, exclusion, and discrimination might be taking their place? Refugee programs are being gutted for people from many countries,

like those fleeing the Taliban and Afghanistan. While the New York Times reports, the Trump

administration is ramping up refugee outreach to white South Africans. The Washington Post has an

article called Amid Anti-D-EI Push, National Park Service, rewrites history of the Underground Railroad.

It says for years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous conductor, Harriet Tubman.

The page began with the words, the Underground Railroad, the resistance to enslavement

through escape and flight through the end of the Civil War, refers to the efforts of enslaved

African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. That was all on the web page as it was.

The post says the introductory sentence is gone.

It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery. Another one like that, the New York

Times had an article over the weekend called The White House frames the past by erasing parts of it.

The Times is cataloging words and data in various of their articles,

being removed from government websites. The article in this case mentions content about vaccines,

hate crimes, low-income children, opioid addiction, and veterans, plus many mentions of words

like black, women, and discrimination.

All gone.

We'll talk to Times reporter Tiffany Shue now.

She wrote that story.

She covers misinformation and disinformation for the Times.

That's her beat.

Tiffany, thanks for coming on.

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