Diversity Management, News and Updates
Blacks more likely to die of lung cancer than whites. Researchers have found that Black patients living in segregated counties have a lung cancer mortality rate about 10 percentage points higher than those living in diverse neighborhoods. When looking at specific counties, the researchers found that the mortality rate of…
Despite an impressive list of prestigious awards and national accomplishments, Rutgers University’s Dr. Clement Alexander Price is a remarkably down-to-earth person. A Black historian and community activist, Price is the Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History at the Newark, N.J., campus. Price is most known for founding…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time to observe civil-rights milestones and reflect on next steps. What best practices do top companies use to align this holiday with diversity-management strategies And how important is it to make the day a holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which falls on…
More ad-agency foolishness: Here’s American Airlines’ new commercial, featuring its new logo. The (only) woman is a waitress, the (only) Asian people are kitchen workers, the Latino kid is in a poor neighborhood, the Black guy is a football player (inexplicably standing on the field and daydreaming with his helmet…
Black women in the military disproportionately were discriminated against as part of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy. The study from the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) found that the number of military personnel discharged as a result of DADT were disproportionately women, Blacks, Latinos and Asians. In 2008,…
Why is President Obama’s new Cabinet overwhelmingly white and male A recent group photo of Obama and his advisers in the White House published by The New York Times pinpointed what many have been noticinga huge lack of racial and gender diversity. Is he shortchanging the millions of Blacks, Latinos…
The newly sworn-in 113th Congress marks a historic milestoneit’s the most diverse in history. A record number of Blacks, Latinos, Asians and women now hold seats among the 535 Senate and House of Representatives members. And the diversity goes beyond race/ethnicity and gender. Congress is: 8 percent Black: a total…
New York’s Republican State Senators, a group of mostly white men, are working hard to muscle their influence in government and stonewall diversity progress. Republicans and a group of five Democrats in Albany formed a “bipartisan governing coalition” to secure a majority hold on the Senate. According to lawmakers interviewed…
Question: I am a Black woman from continental Africa who chooses to have natural Black hair, not relaxed or chemically altered in any way. I wear my natural hair not as some political statement but because it is the hair that God gave me and intended me to have, just…
