But undercover video obtained by Accuracy in Media reveals conference sessions centered on race, power, and identity politics instead.

During a presentation at the 2025 APA conference, Dr. Kevin Nadal, a professor at John Jay College, argued that psychology is rooted in “white supremacy” and urged attendees to stop “centering whiteness” in their professional practice.

“We are not to continue to center whiteness in our practice.”

Nadal questioned the traditional role of psychologists, telling attendees:

“In what ways… is that really perpetuating this notion that to be a psychologist is akin to being a person in a position of power and privilege?”

He went on to claim that the profession itself has been shaped by white supremacy.

“We’re basing this off white supremacy, that to be a clinician means that we’re focusing on the definition likely being white.”

Later in the presentation, Nadal argued that discussions about bias often depend on members of historically marginalized groups raising concerns first.

“Much like most problems in society, it takes the person of the historically marginalized group to bring it up… For us to also think about how we are not to continue to center whiteness in our practice… that we don’t just focus on the types of approaches that might be most fitting or appropriate or comfortable for white therapists…”

The video raises serious questions about the direction of one of America’s largest professional organizations for psychologists. Rather than focusing exclusively on evidence-based treatment and patient care, conference attendees were encouraged to examine psychology through the lens of systemic power, privilege, and race.

The conference’s list of sponsors included organizations such as the American Diabetes Association, OpenAI, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Their sponsorship raises an obvious question: Were these organizations aware that conference programming included presentations describing psychology as rooted in white supremacy and encouraging clinicians to stop “centering whiteness”? If so, do they support those views?

Patients deserve confidence that psychological care is grounded in sound science, professional ethics, and individualized treatment–not political ideology.

Accuracy in Media has spent years documenting the spread of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology throughout American institutions. Our investigations have exposed DEI programs in K–12 schools, colleges, universities, and government agencies that critics argue prioritize identity politics over equal treatment and merit.

Visit NoPoliticsInHealthcare.com now to send a message to the conference sponsors and relevant university leaders demanding accountability.

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Accuracy in Media’s undercover journalist caught several local government employees discussing their DEI efforts. 

“My title is still the same. All of the work is still the same. Still explicitly call things what they are,” said City of Spartanburg Strategic Partnerships and Opportunities Manager Marilyn Nguyen on AIM’s hidden camera. 

However, she said the city is preparing to shift its language in response to potential laws against DEI. 

“It would be the same exact work, we would just be, you know, working with language around like access and opportunity versus inclusion,” she explained. “We would be renaming all of it so that we would, you know, continue to be able to do the same thing.”

It’s not just one employee pushing this woke agenda for Spartanburg. Assistant City Manager said on AIM’s hidden camera, “One of the reasons I moved here was Spartanburg was doing DEI stuff before it was trendy or popular. Like it’s something we believe in, it’s in our core and we keep it.”

Over in Greenville, Volunteer Coordinator Kamara Sitton confirmed to AIM’s undercover journalist that there is a DEI office. 

“We do have one, we have a person,” she said. 

She advised seeking out any DEI opportunities through the community engagement office. 

In the coastal city of Myrtle Beach, an unnamed employee confirmed the presence of a DEI representative for employees. She said community based DEI efforts are done through the city’s Human Rights Commission. 

AIM investigated several local governments in neighboring North Carolina, which sparked a state legislature probe. Lawmakers overrode Democratic Governor Josh Stein’s veto to pass several anti-DEI measures, targeting the destructive ideology in public schools, higher education, and local government.

It’s time for South Carolina to pass its own DEI bans in government and public institutions. 

A bill was introduced last year in the South Carolina State House to put an end to DEI across government. It passed in the general assembly but didn’t make it to the Senate floor before the legislative session adjourned. 

South Carolina must put an end to DEI, otherwise local governments will take the opportunity to keep promoting the divisive ideology. 

Visit SaveCarolinaCities.com to send one convenient message to the relevant officials. Let them know taxpayers won’t stand to see their hard earned money go towards woke DEI efforts.

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The admissions raise serious questions about whether ideological activism is being embedded into the education of future mental health professionals.

During the APA’s “Cross-Radical Solidarity” session, University of Louisville Associate Professor Samuel Beasley described weaving social justice issues into clinical coursework while using professional ethics as cover.

Rather than presenting activism directly, Beasley said he embeds it into counseling case studies.

“If I embed it in a clinician situation and connect it to our values as counseling psychologists, then I have a much clearer path.”

He explained that students can be assigned case studies involving political or social issues under the guise of ethics and multicultural counseling.

When discussing how to respond to criticism, Beasley advised relying on APA standards to make objections more difficult.

“When someone wants to challenge them… you say they’re challenging our values as a field… I usually just use the APA ethics code, the APA multicultural guidelines.”

The strategy, he suggested, allows instructors to advance ideological content without presenting it as overt political instruction.

The session comes as the APA continues to face controversy over allegations of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hostility within the organization. Members have reported harassment at APA events because of their Jewish faith, and have pointed to inflammatory rhetoric from former APA leadership surrounding Israel and the October 7 terrorist attacks such as calling Hamas terrorists “martyrs.”

At the APA session “Future of Diversity at Work,” professors acknowledged changing language—not ideology—to keep DEI initiatives alive.

Melissa R. Jenkins of Washington State University said grant proposals had to be rewritten using different terminology.

“We had to rewrite our grant using the non-triggering language.”

Jennifer L. Wessel, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland, said opponents are not being fooled by the wording changes because the underlying agenda remains the same.

“I think the people who are against what we are doing are against the content, not the words.”

Wessel also described advising a researcher to remove “DEI” from a paper’s title so she “would not get deported” while making clear the substance of the research would remain unchanged.

Accuracy in Media has repeatedly exposed universities attempting to preserve DEI programs despite state and federal restrictions. The APA conference reveals the same strategy is now being discussed within the training of future psychologists and mental health professionals.

Patients seeking mental health care should not have to wonder whether their counselor was trained to provide evidence-based treatment or ideological instruction.

Take action today at NoPoliticsInHealthcare.com to send a message directly to the conference’s sponsors and the leadership of the universities represented at the event. Radical politics have no place in America’s health care system.

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Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.

July 30, 2026 | By Miranda Green

In February of 2025, as college students across the country settled into their spring semesters, administrators at four major public universities in the Midwest received public records requests about their policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, which arrived on the same day from a network of sites that looked like local news outlets, asked for all emails employees had sent the previous year containing the words “BIPOC, Indigenous, Latinx, Diversity, and Non-white.”

The requests, from sites owned by a paid partisan network called Metric Media, were part of a strategic, ongoing effort to expose and castigate public universities for teaching with an eye on diversity. Around the same time, a nonprofit called Accuracy in Media began uploading gotcha-style hidden-camera videos to YouTube of school administrators talking about their continued efforts to foreground diversity and equity. The videos sought to highlight the contrast between those efforts and school rules that, in some cases, ban educators from talking about gender and identity. And last summer, the Oversight Project, an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sent FOIA requests to the North Carolina public university system, seeking all syllabuses that contained any of a long list of terms, including “gender identity,” “racial equity,” “white privilege,” and “restorative justice.”

Read the rest of Columbia Journalism Review’s article here.

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Posted on July 28, 2026 | By Gabrielle Temaat – Assistant Editor

‘…goal is to help white individuals become better allies,’ professor says

Professors at the annual American Psychological Association conference advocated for “antiracism” in therapy to train “white allies,” according to a video released by watchdog group Accuracy in Media Monday.

Speaking on stage to an audience, Yara Mekawi, an assistant professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, said there are “ways for white allies to speak up” about “racial injustice” while “staying in their lane.”

She advocated for psychologists to use “motivational interviewing to help white allies overcome their ambivalence in their antiracism commitment.”

She noted that psychologists have outlined these strategies in a book called “Beyond Fragility.”

Professor Mekawi “is the director of the Challenging Ongoing Legacies Of Racism (COLOR) lab,” according to her biography on the University of Louisville’s website.

Another speaker, Natalie Watson-Singleton, associate professor of psychology at Spelman College in Georgia, condemned anti-DEI policies and blamed them for “censorship.”

Read the rest of The College Fix’s article here.

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‘I didn’t say anything that could be classified as hateful,’ the student claimed, according to a conservative watchdog group

Brendan Rascius in New York
Tuesday 28 July 2026 14:45 BST

A student at Cornell University who went viral after saying he was “not interested in working for a Jew” claims he has faced no disciplinary action from the Ivy League school, according to a new report.

Austin Franco, a rising junior at Cornell, made the remarks in an interview with Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog group that appears to have recorded the 19-year-old without his knowledge and under false pretenses.

When asked what action the New York school had taken about remarks he made in June to a prospective employer, Franco said that although Cornell and its advocacy team had contacted him, he remains enrolled as a student.

“As of now, they said there’s not anything going on on their back end,” Franco said in the video, posted to X on July 22. “I think because I didn’t say anything that could be classified as hateful. There wasn’t really a leg they could go on.”

Read the rest of the Independent’s article here.

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An Accuracy in Media journalist captured two professors openly promoting the use of therapy techniques—not to treat patients—but to advance what they describe as an “antiracism movement,” complete with calls to “redistribute power” across society.

During her remarks, Natalie Watson-Singleton, an associate professor at Spelman College, framed opposition to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs not as policy disagreement—but as repression.

“These anti-DEI policies have also set the stage for increased censorship and punitive action… especially for those of us who decide to speak out against the racism for Palestinians and genocide in Gaza.”

She went further, arguing that even the language of civil rights is being “weaponized”:

“We’ve even seen the language of antisemitism… taken and weaponized to… maintain racism, colonialism and widespread oppression.”

But Watson-Singleton made clear this wasn’t just rhetoric—it was a call to action.

“When we are talking about antiracism… we are talking about intentional and sustained behaviors… to disrupt racism… and redistribute power individually, culturally and systematically.”

That “action” was outlined explicitly by Yara Mekawi, who described structured programs designed to reshape behavior—specifically targeting “white allies.”

“There are ways for white allies to speak up… while at the same time taking the lead of BIPOC and… staying in their lane… It’s a dialectic.”

Mekawi detailed how her team operationalizes this through psychological frameworks typically used in clinical care:

“We used skills from dialectical behavior therapy… In addition to DBT… ACT, Motivational Interviewing, CBT, and mindfulness to help white allies overcome barriers…”

These aren’t fringe techniques—they are foundational tools in modern psychology. But here, they were presented as instruments for ideological training.

She described tailoring emotional regulation strategies to what she called “group-level emotions” tied to racial identity:

“To teach white allies how to regulate the anxiety that gets activated when their white racial [identity] is brought to the forefront.”

The effort has already been formalized into a training model:

“We’ve turned all these skills into a book we call Beyond Fragility.”

The implications are hard to ignore. Techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness have long been used to help individuals manage anxiety, trauma, and depression. At the APA conference, those same tools were framed as mechanisms to influence beliefs, behaviors, and social roles—based on race.

What emerges is a fundamental shift: from treating patients as individuals to categorizing them by identity and guiding them toward predetermined social outcomes.

The APA conference represents the institutional core of American psychology. When speakers openly advocate using clinical frameworks to “redistribute power,” it raises serious questions about where the profession is heading.

Are these methods being used to heal—or to shape ideology?

And as debates over DEI continue nationwide, one thing is clear: the battle is no longer confined to classrooms or corporate training sessions. It has entered the therapy room—armed with the full authority of modern psychology.

Take action right now by going to NoPoliticsinHealthCare.com.

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Cornell Student Who Won’t ‘Work for a Jew’ Claims School is Welcoming Him Back

Posted by Mike LaChance Monday, July 27, 2026 at 01:00pm

“This incident has been referred to the Cornell Office of Civil Rights for investigation under university policy”

If this student had said something like this about any other group, he would not be able to get into any school.

The New York Post reports:

Ivy League student who’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’ says Cornell is welcoming him back

The disgraced Cornell University student who went viral for declining an interview with an NYC startup because he said he didn’t want to be “working for a Jew,” claims he’s returning the upstate Ivy league campus in the fall.

Austin Franco, 19, the rising junior who delivered the message to VrfID’s Jewish co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn via job board site Handshake in June, told conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media that he hardly got a slap on the wrist from Cornell.

Read the rest of Legal Insurrection’s article here.

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Adam Guillette, President of Accuracy in Media, calls for heavy structural oversight similar to Governor Ron DeSantis’s actions at New College of Florida.

Watch the full interview here.

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By Trending Desk, ET Online | Last Updated: Jul 26, 2026, 08:49:00 AM IST

Cornell University student Austin Franco sparked outrage for openly refusing to work for a New York City startup because its founder was Jewish. But now, the fallout has had an unexpected outcome. According to Franco, the controversy not only failed to result in disciplinary action from Cornell but also brought him thousands of dollars in donations.

The claims surfaced in an undercover investigation by Accuracy in Media, a nonprofit organization, whose investigator posed as someone sympathetic to Franco’s views to gain his trust. During the conversation, Franco discussed the backlash, Cornell’s response, and why he believes the controversy ultimately benefited him, reports The New York Post.

Read the rest of The Economic Times’ article here.

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