Diversity Management, News and Updates
The WNBA is continuing its winning streak, outperforming all other major athletics groups when it comes to racial and gender hiring practices. Brooke Migdon of The Hill reported that “the Women’s National Basketball Association this week earned a nearly perfect score for race- and gender-inclusive hiring in 2021, according to…
With her successful spelling of the word “murraya,” a type of tropical Asiatic and Australian tree, Zaila Avant-garde from Harvey, Louisana won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the event’s first-ever African American winner and the second Black winner in the competition’s 96-year history, after Jamaica’s Jody-Anne Maxwell won…
Women’s basketball continues to make headlines for its offensive and sexist treatment of female players. First, there was the viral story earlier this year about the incredible disparity in training facilities and resources set-up for female NCAA basketball players compared to male players — with the men getting better weight…
Unsurprisingly, the sports world continues to be a hotbed of latent racism and cultural insensitivity. The latest example: Creighton University basketball coach Greg McDermott. Following the loss of his team, the Bluejays (currently ranked 14th in the NCAA), McDermott urged his players to “stick together” and “stay on the plantation.”…
Former basketball star Dwyane Wade had to defend his son, Zion, again on social media against haters who criticized Zion’s shirt and nails. Actress Gabrielle Union, Wade’s wife, posted a photo on Instagram of the family in their home together on Thanksgiving Day. In the photo, Zion, Wade’s son from…
Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has donated an entire year’s rent to an Atlanta woman whose 12-year-old son was struck in the spine by a stray bullet and paralyzed from the chest down as he was leaving a high school football game on Aug. 17, according to WXIA-TV. It…
Basketball legend Lisa Leslie will be the 11th statue outside of the famous Staples Center in California and the first woman ever honored with a bust. Leslie’s statue will also be the first of a WNBA player outside of a team’s home arena. Leslie has a long and successful history…
Storm guard Alysha Clark, a talented basketball player who was drafted in 2010, makes some of her biggest contributions off of the court. Through annual toy drives, Clark has donated over 10,000 toys to Seattle’s Children’s Hospital, including over 2,000 this year. According to the Associated Press, Clark wanted to…
In the current 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) soccer tournament, at least 30 players are lesbian and bi women and one coach. That’s the highest number of out players ever to participate in the international sporting tournament. During the last WWC, the number of out participants was 18. The U.S. and the…
NBA League Commissioner Adam Silver told The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. that the NBA has set a goal for at least half of its referees to be women. Silver also said that “there’s no reason” why women shouldn’t also be coaching men’s basketball. According to Silver, there are only…
