Diversity Management, News and Updates
Organizers in Lee County, Florida, are attempting to “rebrand” the place they call home originally named after notorious and racist Confederate General Robert E. Lee to now honor actor, martial artist and cultural icon Bruce Lee. Kynala Phillips of NBC News has reported that “in an effort to ‘eradicate’ racism…
Only 5,000 people have ever reached the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on the planet at 29,028 feet above sea level — the greatest challenge in existence for outdoorsmen and mountaineers alike. But now, a team of nine Black men and women are finalizing their plans to summit…
Over 600 inventors have been inducted into The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) since the Ohio-based organization was founded in 1973. While there have never been any Black women inducted into the group, that will soon be changing. NPR’s Rachel Treisman has reported that engineer Marian Croak and the…
In a positive sign of increasing diversity and representation in America’s court system, Florence Pan has been confirmed as the first-ever Asian American woman to hold a seat in the D.C. federal court system. Nate Raymond of Reuters reported that on Thursday, Sept. 23, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm…
When the opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones premieres at Metropolitan Opera House on Sept. 27, the performance will make history. It will be the first-ever opera composed by a Black musician to be performed at the historic and world-renowned New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in…
School board officials in the south-central Pennsylvania town of York have backed down on their original plan to ban all books about race, social justice and racial history from libraries in the school district. The Hill’s Joseph Choi reported that the “all-white Pennsylvania school board this week voted to rescind…
In a bit of disheartening news in the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, a new government study has confirmed that Latinx individuals are vastly under-included and underrepresented in many parts of the media world. Astrid Galvan of the Associated Press reported on the study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office,…
Come November, Boston will be electing its first female mayor of color in the city’s nearly 200-year history. Who that mayor will be, however, remains to be determined by residents of the city in the upcoming election that features two women of color going head to head against each other…
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis continues to make LGBTQ political history. In 2008, he became the first openly gay man ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A decade later, he became the first openly gay man elected to the position of state governor. And now, with his marriage to…
Louisiana’s Lawrence Brooks has been a proud veteran — and a shining example of Black excellence in the military — for a remarkable 76 years. And, on Sept. 12, 2021, he also carried on another incredible feat: his role as the United States’ oldest living World War II veteran, turning…
