News From A Colorful Perspective
Two LGBTQ former Dell employees who claimed workplace discrimination against their employer spoke out in an NPR article on July 15. Dell has been on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity lists in the past, but in a company with over 100,000 employees and offices throughout world, policy can be…
DiversityInc Founder and Chairman Luke Visconti, along with five other expert panelists, offered their perspectives and experience during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing, entitled: “Diversity in the Boardroom: Examining Proposals to Increase the Diversity of America’s Boards.” Or, in most cases, the lack of diversity in America’s boardrooms. …
This past March, Kyle Kashuv was admitted into Harvard University. The conservative teen, born to Israeli-immigrant parents, is also one of the 2018 Parkland-shooting survivors. Kashuv spent much of his senior year as an advocate for gun rights and school safety. It’s important to mention that he is a former…
Rebecca Antinozzi, a teacher at The Chapel School, a private Christian school in Bronxville, N.Y., who held mock slave auctions in her fifth-grade classroom, has been fired after being placed on administrative leave. When the mock slave auctions were reported by a parent of one of the Black students in…
Director Mati Diop took him the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, which is the equivalent of a silver prize. Diop, who is only 36 years old, is the first Black woman to win an award in the 72 years that the famous film festival has been around…
Nominations open for Inner City Capital Connections, which provides free training, coaching and connection to capital. Originally Published by Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser Permanente introduced the Portland metro area’s first Inner City Capital Connections program. ICCC is an initiative designed to support small businesses and promote inclusive economic prosperity. Kaiser Permanente…
Nike released its “Dream With Us” advertisement on Monday. It’s a video showing girls and women running toward their athletic goals and dreams, complete with inspirational music and questions like “Will you be the generation who ends gender inequality?” But the advertisement has attracted strong pushback after Olympic runner and…
Sponsorship is essential to advance women and people of color into senior leadership positions. “We now have almost 400 people in our sponsorship program globally… These were all high performing people for a long period of time. They were all people we knew had upward mobility,” said Nancy Wolfe, SVP,…
Kanye West has decided to enter the world of television by way of becoming a producer. The rapper is currently in talks with cable heavy-hitter Showtime and is currently developing a limited half-hour anthology series that would star talented actor, rapper Jaden Smith as a young West. Related Story: Jaden…
Diversity missing from the executive team and one member ignored the warnings. An ad for the service depicted a white man telling a Black woman in the 1800s that they could escape to the north and be together offended many. The ad, titled “Inseparable,” was published April 2 on YouTube,…
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