The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a program at City University of New York that provides support for men from underrepresented backgrounds for alleged racial discrimination. Trump administration officials said in a Tuesday release that they received reports the CUNY Black Male Initiative provides educational benefits based on race. CUNY says the initiative is geared toward Black, Caribbean and Hispanic men but claims the program’s activities are open to all students, including peer-to-peer mentoring and layered academic and social support. DOJ Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement that “race can never play a role” in how educational resources are distributed, while also noting the department has not reached conclusions. The DOJ release frames the inquiry within a broader set of diversity-related investigations into higher education programs. The development adds risk for campus offices that run targeted student support programs, increasing the compliance and communications burden for institutional leaders and legal counsel navigating program eligibility rules under evolving federal enforcement priorities.