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For more than a year, Robert spent his days getting seniors dressed, taking their vital signs and helping them eat at Edgewood LifeCare Community in North Andover. But one day in May, that changed. A human resources officer said his work permit was no longer valid; he would be laid off.

When the NAACP sued to stop the federal government from propagating its interpretation of civil rights law in March, pushback was inevitable.

Some health and home care providers in Massachusetts have recently laid off staff because of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, according to advocates and employer associations.

They try to erase us. Again. Erase the stories, the elders, the recipes handed down on index cards stained with soul. Erase the baby with thick curls chasing cousins through the grass. Erase the uncle who grills with one hand and carries history in the other.

The Education Department has warned colleges that they will lose funding for any admissions programs that “favor one race over another.” The Trump administration has gone after several prestigious colleges for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

The heat doesn’t knock anymore — it barges in. It fills your lungs like smoke, presses against your chest like regret. It sits on porches in poor neighborhoods where the AC never worked or was too expensive to run.

Activists from Greater Boston-area cities and towns marched on the State House Tuesday, May 20 as part of a national demonstration against the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federal housing programs.

From the podium at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall, Kadida Kenner, executive director of the New Pennsylvania Project, scanned the vast human landscape at the April 5 “Hands Off!” protest. Among the estimated 30,000 assembled, she made a stark observation: Black protesters were missing.

Last week, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense Fund sued the United States Department of Education. Rushing to defend diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, the NAACP’s lawyers may find themselves on rocky rhetorical terrain: Convincing a federal judge that the nation’s foundation is fundamentally flawed.

The crowd quickly grew Saturday morning as protestors gathered around the Parkman Bandstand at Boston Common for a “Hands Off!” rally and march. Organizers said they expected 25,000 people to attend.

Last week, word leaked that HIV prevention is on the chopping block. The Trump administration plans to defund critical HIV prevention efforts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Once a year, the elected chief executive of Boston delivers a speech about the state of the city and how as mayor she or he plans to move it forward. This year, Mayor Michelle Wu gave the annual speech at a time Boston has been the target of hostility from the Trump administration for the city’s support of immigrants who live here and for their communities.