Diversity Management, News and Updates
When it comes to hitting ESG goals like becoming net zero by a certain date, Orlan Boston, Americas Sustainability ESG Market Leader at EY, said it takes a village. During a panel titled “Effectively Communicating ESG Commitments to the Workforce, Suppliers & Talent Pipelines” at the 2022 DiversityInc Top50 Event…
Despite Walmart’s ongoing commitment to diversity as an organization, employees at one store in Georgia have been accused of racially profiling one of their customers. Monique Beals of The Hill reported that “David Conners, a Clayton County corrections officer, was stopped and handcuffed by a Fayetteville police officer while he…
A 23-year-old Black woman was found dead in her apartment following a date with a man she met on the dating app Bumble. Police in her hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, have been charged with racial insensitivity for failing to follow up properly on the case for nearly a month and…
As the battle to protect voting rights continues in the nation’s capital — sadly with little success — veteran politician and minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, has come under fire for a statement he made that implied Black Americans were not “full” Americans. Bruce Schreiner of The…
In an ordeal no parent would want their child to experience, a 4-year-old girl in Rochester, New York, recently revealed to her mother that her daycare van driver had forgotten her, leaving her stranded alone in a freezing van for nine hours. Jasmine Alyce of the Atlanta Black Star reported,…
In a horrible example of rude, sexist and thoroughly discriminatory behavior, two radio announcers in Maine were fired for openly mocking members of a girl’s high school basketball team during a live broadcast. The Associated Press reported that “the comments were made by two broadcasters on the Houlton radio station…
Target (No. 29 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2021) seems to have hit the bullseye. The retail giant recently released its 2020 Workforce Diversity Report, sharing and breaking down disaggregated racial and gender data across all levels of the organization. To expand on the report’s…
The United States House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing on Thursday, March 18 titled, “By the Numbers: How Diversity Data Can Measure Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” During the Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion’s hearing co-chaired by Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Rep. Joyce Beatty of…
Are “diversity and inclusion” all smoke and mirrors? What does one do when corporations come to the realization and say, “Hey, I am racist”? Is there a latent hypocrisy in corporate America, who will say one thing, publicly promising to change, but then go on to do something else, perpetuating…
Manhattan Supreme Court Prosecutors announced on Tuesday Feb. 16 that they were no longer pursuing charges against Amy Cooper, the white woman caught on video last May calling the police on a Black man who was watching birds in Central Park. Cooper, charged with falsely reporting an incident in the…
