Some minority-owned firms may have benefited from DEI programs, a business owner says, but such initiatives did not go far enough in dismantling other barriers.

Wendell Stemley, president of the National Association of Minority Contractors and president of Black IPO Construction Management, poses near a construction site his company is providing services for,

Trump’s rollback of DEI initiatives leaves some Black-owned business leaders unfazed. Biden’s DEI policies delivered some gains — but not enough to overcome structural barriers. ‘Good old boy’ network and other barriers shut minority-owned firms out of federal government contracts,