Diversity Management, News and Updates
Major League Baseball has righted a generations-old wrong this week by elevating the Negro Leagues to MLB status. This inclusion will allow for 3,400 Black players from seven leagues that formed due to segregation and had operated between 1920 and 1948 to receive newfound recognition in a number of ways,…
America’s biggest companies have profited greatly from the coronavirus, even as they drastically cut their workforce. In the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, a new Washington Post survey has revealed that between April and September, 45 of the 50 most valuable publicly traded…
As offices prepare to close for end-of-the-year holidays and coworkers plan celebrations (albeit virtual this year), it’s important to remember that this time of year isn’t jubilant for everyone. Although the long-held idea that suicides increase during the holidays is a myth, an increase of stress is not. Numerous surveys…
Shoplifting on the rise as more Americans steal to survive the pandemic. As deaths from COVID-19 top 300,000 and the virus continues to surge, a new problem is emerging across America. More and more individuals, especially lower-income minorities, are turning to shoplifting as a means of survival. According to the…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth $187.8 billion after profiting more than $48 billion from the COVID-19 pandemic. Capping an already historic year for a select group of retail titans, Americans are now turning in droves to do their holiday shopping online, if not only to maintain social-distancing protocols,…
Biden further commits to racial equity in meeting with civil rights leaders. In a nearly two-hour virtual meeting on Dec. 8 with seven civil rights leaders, President-elect Joe Biden furthered his commitment to prioritizing racial justice and assembling a diverse Cabinet that can tackle pressing equity issues, the Associated Press…
Working mothers make up a significant portion of the American workforce. According to the U.S. Census, nearly one-third of employed women have children under the age of 18 at home. That’s more than 23.5 million working women nationwide. For these women — who already face the challenge of parenting, providing…
As universities across the nation have been reckoning with their past over recent years, taking down statues and renaming halls that bore the names of former slave owners, one institution remained untouched: Johns Hopkins. The story, long repeated about the namesake of the Maryland hospital and university, was that his…
The chaos of 2020, defined largely by the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as a reckoning for police brutality and other forms of systemic racism, has signaled a sea change — or at least the need for one — in American society. As trust in big governments…
Georgia officials reduce early voting availability ahead of monumental state runoff elections. With the balance of the U.S. Senate — and much of what President-elect Joe Biden might be able to accomplish during his first two years in office — hanging on the results of the two Georgia runoff elections…
