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’60 Minutes’ Profiles Collateral Damage Of Trump’s War On DEI: Students Of Color Who Were Denied Chance To Play With U.S. Marine Band

'60 Minutes' Profiles Collateral Damage Of Trump's War On DEI: Students Of Color Who Were Denied Chance To Play With U.S. Marine Band.

60 Minutes took aim President Trump’s war on diversity, equity and inclusion Sunday by focusing on the collateral damage of his controversial executive order — a group of young Black, Hispanic, Indian and Asian musicians who were denied the chance to play with the U.S. Marine Band this year. Pelley reported that the Marine Band’s commanding officer wrote Equity Arc’s Stan Thompson to say “as long as the executive order is in place, we will not be able to reschedule.” So 60 Minutes — whose parent company announced last month t hat it was rolling back some of its own DEI policies — decided to stage its own concert, instead. The CBS newsmagazine gathered the youths along with retired musicians from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines to perform at a concert hall rented by Equity Arc.

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