Civil rights leader Al Sharpton led a protest Thursday outside of the New York office of the billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who helped lead a campaign that led to this week’s ouster of Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s first Black president. Ackman is a Harvard alum and major donor to the university who has publicly railed against Harvard and other schools for supporting DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — programs. Al Sharpton vowed to keep protesting outside Ackman’s office.

Rev. Al Sharpton: “We have started these weekly one-hour protests in front of Mr. Ackman’s office. He has said that the resignation of Dr. Gay at Harvard is not the end of it. They are going to keep fighting 'til they end DEI, which is diversity, equity and inclusion. That's declaring a war on all of us — Blacks, women, gays. DEI was designed to bring fairness and equality to people that had been historically marginalized and eliminated.”

As part of his campaign to oust Claudine Gay as Harvard president, Bill Ackman helped amplify allegations that Gay had committed plagiarism in her academic work. But now Bill Ackman’s wife, MIT professor Neri Oxman, is facing a plagiarism scandal of her own. Business Insider has revealed Oxman plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation at MIT. On Thursday, Oxman apologized and admitted making mistakes.