AIM Proves DEI Isn’t Dead in Raleigh, Carolina Journal Reports

October 20, 2025

By AIM Staff

An undercover investigation by Accuracy in Media (AIM) is exposing how local governments are rebranding their diversity, equity, and, inclusion programs under different names.

The City of Raleigh is under scrutiny after an undercover AIM journalist recorded Assistant Director of Economic and Social Advancement Briana Scurry discussing efforts to ensure the city’s DEI programs remain “as protected as possible.”

“We are certainly being strategic in the ways that we … we don’t want to draw attention to ourselves, number one, right, but also want to make sure that this work [DEI] is as protected as possible,” said Scurry in the video.

Multiple DEI veto overrides are currently on the North Carolina House for Monday Oct. 20 — House Bill 171, Senate Bill 227, and Senate Bill 558 — designed to curb the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda in K-12 education, higher education, and in state and local government.

Brian Balfour, VP of research for the John Locke Foundation, says these ongoing programs are costing taxpayers a significant amount of money.

Read the full article here.

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