News From A Colorful Perspective
Both the New York Yankees of major league baseball and the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League will discontinue using Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America.” It has recently come to the attention of teams official that Smith also released some racially charged songs that were titled 1931’s…
Major League Baseball is renaming its league-wide medical database from the commonly known “Disabled List” to the “Injured List”. “The principal concern is that using the term ‘Disabled’ for players who are injured supports the misconception that people with disabilities are injured and therefore are not able to participate or…
Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s “joke” about attending “a public hanging” — a method of domestic terrorism that killed hundreds of Black people in Mississippi — resulted in major companies withdrawing their support, except for Major League Baseball (MLB). Hyde-Smith recently received the legal maximum donation of $5,000 from the MLB….
TBS’s exclusive presentation of the National League throughout the 2017 MLB Postseason fueled significant audience growth across all Turner (a division of Time Warner No. 37 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) platforms. This year’s National League Championship Series the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs averaged 6.2 million…
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s (MLB) color barrier when he made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Seventy years later, the franchise, now the Los Angeles Dodgers, unveiled a statue on Saturday honoring the trailblazer. Before the Dodgers’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks,…
By Michael Nam On Sunday, May 17th the Miami Marlins baseball franchise made a curious choice to replace their manager, Mike Redmond. Rather than working with the current “Selig Rule” to review multiple diverse candidates for the role, the Marlins went with their general manager, Dan Jennings, another white guy,…
By Michael Nam Rob Manfred, the 10th commissioner of Major League Baseball, wants to “grow” the game in Latin America and the Caribbean, but while he talks up the diversity of baseball’s workforce, his reorganized senior leadership team lacks any Latino representation. If he truly wants to reach out to…
Pro sports is one of many industries that struggle in the D&I space, most having little or no structured diversity programs in place. Of all the pro sports, Major League Baseball is a little ahead of the curve, routinely scoring a B/B+ overall in The Institute for Diversity and Ethics…
By Chris Hoenig There is only one professional sports league in the United States in which at least 50 percent of the players are not of a single race or ethnicity. And no, it’s not one of the so-called “Big Four.” It’s Major League Soccer. In every other major sports…
By Chris Hoenig MLB Commissioner Bud Selig Diversity in professional sports is evident on the fields, courts and rinks across the country. Just don’t look for it in owner’s boxes. The media firestorm and outpouring of disgust that followed the broadcasting of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s long-held racist…
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