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Q: Two people are uniquely positioned to help the people of Ferguson to quell their anger if (likely) the police officer is not charged with a crime by a grand jury finding that he acted within the law deadly force against a citizen who was in process of a felony…
What do you do if you have a Satya Nadella moment You said what you mean, but then have to backpedal because what you believe is completely unpalatable. If you haven’t seen it yet, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said at a conference celebrating women in engineering, “It’s not really about…
On Dec. 14, 1915, Red Fox James, a Blackfeet Indian, presented at the White House endorsements from 24 state governments for a day to honor Indians. But the federal government didn’t take action until 1983, when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed May 13 as American Indian Day. In 1990, President George…
Hitting a man six times with rounds fired from a handgun (even a man with his hands up) is an impressive feat of marksmanship—and that was just part of a tsunami of oppression perpetrated upon our fellow citizens (who are Black) in Ferguson, Mo., oppression which started far before Michael…
I had a stroke on May 20. Ironically, it came the same week we had scheduled a dinner to bring together PWD community leaders and corporate leaders to discuss why there isn’t more being done to employ people with disabilities, who have the highest unemployment rate of any college-educated diversity…
Former NBA Commissioner David Stern and Sterling Q. Donald Sterling has been an openly misogynistic, womanizing dirtbag for years. Why did he get a pass until now A. I think Sterling was caught in four trends: 1. Our data show that sexism is a larger axis of discrimination than race…
By Julissa Catalan Photo by Shutterstock More than half of workers who will benefit from a minimum-wage increase are women and the move could help close the gender pay gap, a White House report said on Wednesday. “The Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage on Women” was produced in part…
Just ahead of the Supreme Court’s rulings on same-gender marriage, the Pew Research Center released a series of surveys regarding attitudes, experiences and acceptance in the United States’ LGBT community. The studies provided some unique insights. DiversityInc presents some of the most revealing. [SlideDeck2 id=29382]
What can we do to improve women’s economic opportunities Women have made significant progress over the last several decades, but throughout the world, they still face significant economic inequities, says Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Lagarde writes in a blog post that International Women’s Day (annually…
By Luke Visconti Ordinarily, I wouldn’t bother writing about Super Bowl ads,but there’s one coming up this Sunday from Volkswagen that is a good “teachable moment.”The Volkswagen ad in question features a white guy (we learn in the ad that he is from Minnesota) who speaks in what sounds to…
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