By Associated Press January 24, 2025 4:25 PM EST A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020. Emboldened by  a U.S. Supreme Court decision  that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions,  conservative activists  have used the  courts  and  social media  to target workplace