The U.S. Department of Labor building is pictured in Washington on Thursday, April 2, 2020. NEW YORK - Civil rights groups on Thursday celebrated President Joe Biden’s swift revocation of a Trump administration order that had banned federal agencies, contractors and recipients of federal funding from conducting certain diversity training.The order had targeted workplace trainings that explored systemic racism and privilege, which former President Donald Trump had deemed "un-American" and potentially harmful to white workers.
The Department of Labor had already suspended enforcement of the order after a California federal court granted a preliminary injunction against it in response to a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, an organization that.