The national retail chain Target is scaling back socially progressive policies, including phasing out its diversity and inclusion policies

Target follows McDonald’s and Walmart in ending DEI initiatives in response to conservative backlash, legal threats and Trump’s November election victory.

Critics are calling for shoppers to boycott Target over its DEI policy reversal – but black-owned brands are asking customers to keep shopping at Target stores.

Even Target has turned on the Human Rights Campaign, withdrawing from the Corporate Equality Index after Trump's DEI orders.

Minneapolis’s Twin Cities Pride says it is “parting ways” with Target, one of its biggest sponsors, following the retailer’s announcement that it would roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

In a memo sent to its employees, Target it will end its three-year DEI goals, stop reports to external groups like the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index and end a program focused on carrying more products from Black- or minority-owned businesses.

Target said it would end its DEI goals, including hiring and promoting more women and members of racial minority groups, following the move by Donald Trump to end affirmative action in federal contrac

Chief Community Impact and Equity Officer Kiera Fernandez cited “the importance of staying in step with the evolving external landscape.”

Target's rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is raising questions about the retail giant's philanthropic commitment to fighting racial disparities and promoting progressive values in liberal Minneapolis,

Discount store chain Target says it's joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

MN state Sen. Scott Dibble said, "Target has made itself clear" in prioritizing "President Trump's politics of cruelty, fear, and resentment."

Target, after strengthening its diversity goals in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, became Friday the latest big company to retreat from its diversity goals amid pressure from conservative activists.