2025 Was Not Progress, It Was a Rollback

TonyTidbit: A Black Executive Perspective · Jan 9, 2026 · 1h 1m

Episode Title: Episode Audio Link: https://podcast.ablackexec.com/episode/2025-was-not-progress-it-was-a-rollbackEpisode Video Link: In this episode of BEP Live, hosts Tony Tidbit and Chris P. Reed take a hard look at 2025, a year defined not by forward movement, but by coordinated rollback. Across corporate America, media, and government, diversity initiatives were dismantled, protections were stripped away, and policies once thought settled quietly returned under new language.Tony and Chris unpack the erosion of DEI, the implications of legislation like the Heartbeat Law for women’s…