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There Was an Actual Conspiracy to Redefine CRT and DEI. Now They Have a New Target

The billionaire-funded propaganda group that demonized CRT and DEI just released a plan to make universities white again.

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Michael Harriot
Jul 18, 2025
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From 1958-1966, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, a little-known philanthropic organization called the John M. Olin Foundation “secretly served as a bank for the CIA” and funded “anti communist intellectuals and publications." According to Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money: The History of the Billionaires Behind the Radical Right, …

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