Diversity Management, News and Updates
Residents of Mississippi were angered over a billboard that appeared in Pearl, Mississippi, with President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan imposed on a historic civil rights photograph. Super PAC For Freedoms, the group that constructed the billboard, has since agreed to take it down following the backlash….
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch In her final weeks in office as U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch is still determined to seek justice for Americans. Sheannounced in a video statement on Friday that she is directing the Department of Justice to investigate if the recent rise in hate crimes is…
Novartis (No. 2 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) announced it has acquired Selexys Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a company specializing in development of therapeutics in certain hematologic and inflammatory disorders. Novartis exercised its right to acquire Selexys following receipt of results of the SUSTAIN study, a Phase II trial evaluating…
WyndhamExtra Holidays, a subsidiary of Wyndham (No. 27 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) Vacation Ownership (WVO), the world’s largest vacation ownership company and member of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE: WYN), is now offering limited-time Black Friday travel discounts of up to 50 percent off your…
“What is needed, when it’s needed, in the right quantity.” There’s a lot more to the Toyota Production System (TPS) (No. 34 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) than that, but that simple statement is the foundation of the “just in time” concept (definition below). If it works for…
According to members of Donald Trump’s team, the president-elect’s staff will be a very diverse group — although the few people Trump has tapped so far do not demonstrate this, as they have been primarily older white men with very conservative and even racist views. Spokesman Jason Miller said Trump’s…
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report on Friday revealing that it has collected 701 incidents of hate in the week directly following the election, from November 9 to November 16. Also on Friday, the FBI released its annual hate crimes report, revealing that 5,818 single-bias incidents occurred…
West, who said he “would have voted for Trump,” railed against fellow artists and others over their roles in the election. Rapper Kanye West went off on a profanity-filled tirade during a concert Saturday, lashing out atJay Z, Beyonc, Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as corporate radio, Google…
Reince Priebus, President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, made numerous contradictory remarks regarding requiring Muslims to register in a national database. During an interview for “Meet the Press” Sunday, when host Chuck Todd asked if Priebus has ruled out a registry as a possibility, Priebus said that nothing was off…
It is well documented that President-elect Donald Trump does not take criticism well and often turns to Twitter to lash out against any perceived gibe. During the campaign, Trump’s Twitter fights often coincided with unfavorable news about him, and his outrageous tweets would consume the news cycle and overshadow any…
