Diversity Management, News and Updates
As the saying goes, the news never stops — but there’s a lot of it out there, and all of it doesn’t always pertain to our readers. In this weekly news roundup, we’ll cover the top news stories that matter most to our diversity focused audience. 1. Emergency Services Dispatcher…
In a disappointing blow to all DEI professionals, a California law known as AB 979 has been ruled unconstitutional by a judge in the state. The law was designed to increase representation of underrepresented communities (including individuals who self-identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American,…
In a groundbreaking and inclusive new labor law, nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other domestic workers within San Francisco could soon qualify for and receive paid sick leave. The Associated Press reported that “the city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Dec. 14, unanimously passed the legislation, which the San Francisco…
In a major win for transgender individuals across the country, the Supreme Court has declined to take up the case involving a trans man who was denied a needed surgery because of his gender identity. By denying to hear the case, the court decided his discrimination lawsuit against the hospital…
The sea of pink and blue-tinted toy aisles in some big box retail chains could soon be a thing of the past, at least in California. Adam Beam of the Associated Press reported that on Saturday, Oct. 9, California “became the first state to say large department stores must display…
Elon Musk may be breaking all kinds of barriers in outer space, but here on Earth, the company he runs is breaking its own records — and they aren’t the good kind. A federal jury in San Francisco has found Musk’s company Tesla guilty of racial discrimination against a former…
Following a review of all 50 U.S. states across six key factors — socioeconomic diversity, cultural diversity, economic diversity, household diversity, religious diversity and political diversity — the personal finance website WalletHub has released a report detailing the most and least diverse states in the nation. “We evaluated those dimensions…
In what many are calling the ultimate example of how reparations can and should work in America, the state of California has moved to return a popular beachfront property in the city of Manhattan Beach to descendants of the Black couple it was originally stolen from more than a century…
A mass shooting may have been averted in California after police arrested a highly armed man who had intentions of “wiping out” Black, Hispanic and Jewish populations. CNN’s Cheri Mossburg reported that “a California man is in custody after police found a cache of weapons, ammunition and racist writings in…
Over the long Independence Day holiday weekend, a memorial statue of MLK in Long Beach, California’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park was vandalized with spray paint, swastikas and other Nazi-related symbols. Local authorities are now investigating the incident as a hate crime. NPR’s Sharon Pruitt-Young reported that “the Long Beach…
