The Obama Presidential Center is just months away from opening in Chicago, officially accepting job applications for individuals who share the organization's commitment to "anti-racism and equity," according to its website. 

"When people come here, we want them to feel what makes the South Side so special," former President Barack Obama said in a video message posted to social media Tuesday announcing the job openings. "The mix of warmth and grit, the sense of humor that can brighten any day, the creativity that turns challenges into opportunities, and the joy that shows up in every block, every place of worship and every family reunion."

The presidential center, which is expected to open on Chicago's South Side in June, is looking to fill 150 job positions stretching from custodians to "ambassadors of hope" who greet visitors. Applications are open until Jan. 31. 

The Obama Foundation's website underscores its commitment to being an "anti-racist" organization throughout its main web page focused on careers, as well as within the job descriptions for the available roles. 

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Within its job description advertising for a full-time security officer, for example, the website notes that it is an equal opportunity employer that is "deeply committed to creating an actively anti-racist organization, leveraging our global reach to combat systemic racism and inequity wherever it exists."

The center describes its team as "equal parts dreamers and doers" and who "care as much about how we achieve our goals as we do about the goals themselves."

"We are also committed to creating an anti-racist organization in order to do our part to help combat racism and inequity in all forms, in communities across our nation and around the world," the Obama Foundation's main webpage for careers states. 

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The Obama Foundation directed website visitors and potential hires to read its lengthy statement on anti-racism and equity, which highlighted that the organization is working to build a network committed to addressing systemic racism and gender discrimination, stressing that combating inequity requires not just policy changes but sustained cultural and institutional commitment. 

"That’s why our goal is to make sure every member of the Foundation team is committed to anti-racism, sets expectations for how we will engage, and makes space for the work," the statement said. "We’re focused on making sure our actions match our intent – removing barriers for diverse vendors, building anti-racism and equity into our hiring practices, and recruiting diverse cohorts for our leadership programs. We also want to be strong partners, working with members of the predominantly Black community that is our home, and the future home of the (Obama Presidential Center)."

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Obama Foundation Friday morning inquiring if there's a mechanism or process to determine a potential hire is aligned with their "anti-racist" vision, and if it will accept applications from noncitizens, but did not immediately receive a reply. 

Obama's presidential center underscoring its commitment to anti-racist policies comes after President Donald Trump took a hatchet to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the federal government upon his return to the Oval Office, which has had a cascading effect throughout private industry. 

Trump signed an executive order on day one of his second administration, for example, titled "Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing," which directed federal agencies to stamp out DEI-style programs across the federal government. The following day, Trump signed a second order aimed at "restoring merit-based opportunity," including changes to federal contracting and related compliance.

"We’ve ended the tyranny of so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military. And our country will be woke no longer," Trump said in March during a joint address to Congress celebrating his early wins of the administration. 

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Obama's presidential center is set to open its doors in June after years of delays, including lawsuits and federal reviews that pushed the timeline back from its initial 2021 expected opening. The center will include a handful of attractions, including the presidential library, a museum, auditorium, a Chicago Public Library branch, a garden, athletic facility and other attractions on its roughly 20-acre campus. 

The building has faced sharp scrutiny and mockery from some locals, who have previously lampooned the design of the massive, mostly window-less building, with the New York Post reporting some Chicagoans refer to it as the "Obamalisk."

Obama Foundation Deputy Director Kim Patterson defended the architecture in December 2025, telling CBS News that the design of the building was intentional, including to protect artwork within the building. 

"The shape of the building was actually meant to mimic four hands coming together to show the importance of our collective action," Patterson told the outlet. 

"There are not a lot of windows on the building, but that's intentional, because sunlight is just not a friend to the artwork and the artifacts that are going inside of the building," Patterson added of why the building has few windows. 

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow compared the Trump administration's reported plans to construct several large-scale holding centers for deportees to the internment camps built for Japanese Americans during World War II.

During a Thursday appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," Maddow was asked about her new podcast series "Burn Order," which examines the U.S. government's 1940s executive order for Japanese American internment following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

After giving the audience a brief synopsis of her new show, the MS NOW host detailed how President Donald Trump's reported plans to build the holding centers reminded her of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's past decision to incarcerate Japanese Americans.

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"So in World War II, there was a racial decree from our government that said, not just people who were immigrants from Japan and therefore Japanese citizens, but Americans born here — U.S. citizens — if they were of Japanese descent, if they had any Japanese racial lineage, they were expelled from the west coast of this country and more than 120,000 of them were locked up for years," she explained. 

"It's something that was so hard to believe, like, 10 years ago. Looking back — and now it's not as hard to believe, is it?" Kimmel said.

Maddow cited a December report from The Washington Post alleging that, according to internal ICE documents reviewed by the outlet, the Trump administration plans to build seven large-scale detention centers for deportees. The Post reported the facilities could house up to 80,000 people across seven locations.

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"The Washington Post just reported on internal documents in the administration that say that they want a series of temporary relocation camps where they're going to hold people for weeks, and then they're going to send them to about 10 big warehouse-style facilities where they're going to hold up to 10,000 people at a time. That's exactly, exactly the structure they used for Japanese American incarceration during World War II," the MS NOW host asserted.

Maddow claimed that the Trump administration was stripping away the rights of citizens by "defining people as no longer protected by the U.S. Constitution."

"[The U.S. government] just said U.S. citizenship doesn't matter anymore. And I think that's something that this administration is more than flirting with at this point," she contended.

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The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

When reached for comment by the Post, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, told the outlet that she "cannot confirm" the report and declined to answer questions about the alleged warehouse plan.