Diversity Management, News and Updates
Cigna on Acceptance and Respect: Third Annual Day of Understanding
June 10, 2021 
Humana Names Carolyn Tandy Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer
June 10, 2021 
Hilton Launches Carbon Neutral Business Meetings in Europe, Middle East and Africa
June 10, 2021 
BASF and Uzin Utz Cooperate on Climate Protection
June 9, 2021 Originally published on LinkedIn.com.
Johnson & Johnson’s new weekly LinkedIn series “Road to a Vaccine” outlines the company’s journey toward developing preventative measures and treatments for COVID-19. This week, the company highlighted the work and struggles of nurses working on the frontlines.
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The cellphone recording of George Floyd’s murder has not only been viewed around the world tens of thousands of times, but it also helped reignite a new wave of the Black Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., renewing calls for improved social justice and police reform across the country. And…
In January 2019, New York City introduced “X” as an option for birth certificates. And now, two years later, the state could join a growing number of locations across the U.S. that allow individuals to identify as “nonbinary” on their official state driver’s license. Kate Sosin of the nonprofit newsroom…
A Black man in Georgia who was injured after police violently slammed him to the ground and attempted to arrest him — in what was ultimately a case of mistaken identity — has been offered a $350,000 settlement for the resulting pain and suffering he endured. The case has also…
Just days shy of the fifth anniversary of the tragic Pulse nightclub shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, Congress has passed a measure to officially commemorate the site of the domestic terrorism attack against LGBTQ folks as a national memorial. Dan Avery of NBC News reported that the U.S. Senate passed…
In a remarkable show of bipartisan support for our usually divided congressional leadership, the Senate has voted to confirm the appointment of the first-ever Muslim American federal judge in U.S. history. On Thursday, June 10, Zahid Quraishi was officially approved to the U.S. District Court for the District of New…
A federal judge in Wisconsin has temporarily halted a government program designed to help chronically disadvantaged farmers of color repay their loans — or forgive their debt altogether. Laura Schulte of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “a temporary restraining order was handed down Thursday afternoon [June 10] by Judge…
Nicole Harper was driving 84 miles per hour in a 70-mph zone last summer near Jacksonville, Arkansas when a police officer noticed her car breaking the law and decided to give her a ticket. What happened next, however, is yet another example of police officers overstepping their legal boundaries, using…
When Fortune magazine announced its annual Fortune 500 list ranking the 500 largest United States corporations by total revenue last week, there were a couple of notable and historic inclusions. The list contained more female CEOs — particularly Black female CEOs — than ever before. Taylor Dunn of ABC News…
As we draw closer to this year’s Juneteenth celebrations on June 19, marking the 156th anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States, an Illinois museum has announced that it will help to mark the occasion by putting a rare, signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation on display…
The Keystone XL Pipeline, a project equally reviled by environmentalists as well as the country’s Indigenous populations, is officially dead. Reuters has reported that the “$9 billion oil pipeline [that] became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates, and a flashpoint in U.S.-Canada relations was officially…