Marc Morial, CEO and president of the National Urban League, one of the nation’s leading civil rights groups, says Walmart ended its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives because it succumbed “to a smear campaign, to threats, to bullying, and to blackmail by a handful of extremists.”

Walmart pulled back on its DEI initiatives Tuesday following a string of legal victories by conservative groups that have filed an onslaught of lawsuits challenging corporate and federal programs aimed at elevating minority- and women-owned businesses and employees.

Morial told “CBS Mornings” he was “dismayed by this decision.”

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