A sunset over the Denny Chimes on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Thursday June 20, 2024. A group of students and professors in the University of Alabaa system have appealed a federal court ruling that allowed Alabama’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion law, SB 129, to go into effect. (Will McLelland/Alabama Reflector)
A group of students and professors have appealed a federal court ruling allowing an Alabama’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) law to go into effect.
The appeal, filed Dec. 15 in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, came after U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor denied a preliminary injunction in August to prevent the state from implementing SB 129, which bans public funding for DEI programs as well as the public affirmation of “divisive concepts.”…