Ari Fife of The Frontier
ReporterAri Fife is a The Frontier staff writer focusing on race and equity issues in Oklahoma.
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The Trump Administration is cutting programs labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes. -
Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now, the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes. -
State agencies and universities that don’t comply with an order from Gov. Kevin Stitt to eliminate certain diversity programs risk losing state funding. -
State education grant writers said they quit in frustration after a lack of support. Walters has vowed in the past not to pursue grants that don’t align with “Oklahoma values.” -
A more than 100-year-old law now propping up the state's sweeping abortion ban contains no clear definition of what it means to preserve the life of a mother.
