John,

The nation’s largest cellphone carrier, AT&T just eliminated its entire DEI infrastructure to get a deal approved by FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Not because equity stopped mattering—because a Trump appointee made it the price for billions in corporate profits.

AT&T removed their DEI teams. They erased equity commitments from their website. They eliminated diversity training. They put it in writing: every initiative focused on racial justice, gone. Verizon and T-Mobile followed. This is what happens when corporations treat equity as negotiable.

This is a pattern, not a coincidence. Carr has made it explicit: no FCC licenses for companies that maintain diversity programs. He's weaponizing regulatory power to dismantle racial justice infrastructure across the telecom industry—and corporations are lining up to comply.

They're testing us to see whether we're too tired, too distracted, or too divided to fight back. They're betting we'll accept the slow erasure of protections our communities built through decades of organizing.

Moments like this are exactly why Color Of Change exists – to hold corporations accountable for the harms they cause, but also for their cowardice. We don't let regulators weaponize federal power against Black workers and customers. And we sure as hell don't stay quiet when companies abandon equity for profit.

AT&T chose compliance over courage. Now they need to hear from us.

Until Justice Is Real,

Color Of Change


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