Diversity Management, News and Updates
In our ongoing celebration of Black History Month, we look back at some of the leaders, icons, and pop culture juggernauts that helped to bring diversity, equity, inclusion and representation to the forefront of the American landscape — like these men and women who left their indelible mark on the…
Civil rights attorney Fred Gray has filed a case to expunge the arrest record of civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin — and he’s considering similar efforts to clear the names of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks as well. Jay Reeves of the Associated Press reported that Gray spoke…
During Black History Month, DiversityInc is honoring a series of Black innovators and history makers such as Claudette Colvin who are often overlooked in mainstream media coverage and history books. Check back throughout February to learn about more important figures. Born: Sept. 5, 1939 Montgomery, Ala. Best known for: Refusing…
The city of Montgomery, Ala., dedicated a statue to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Sunday afternoon, presented by the city’s first Black mayor, Steven Reed. Sunday was the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama and also marked 64 years to the day Parks was arrested for sitting in…
Montgomery, Ala., a city known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, just elected its first Black mayor, Judge Steven Reed. Montgomery is a majority-black city but had been one of three cities with a population over 100,000 in the Deep South that had never elected a Black mayor,…
UPDATE Dec. 5, 2016 at 4:45 p.m. EST Shaun King,New York Daily News senior justice writer and Black Lives Matter activist, announced on Monday phase one of the Injustice Boycott: “Today, we are announcing the first three cities of our boycott. They are Standing Rock, San Francisco, and New York…
Is this a viable solution against police brutality By Sheryl Estrada Isaiah Washington Isaiah Washington, a former star of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” is urging African Americans to protest the recent police-related deaths of Black men with a one-day boycott, which entails staying home from work. Following the deaths of Terence…
Target (No. 25 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity) won a lawsuit last week against the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute, allowing the company to continue selling Rosa Parks merchandise. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus…
It has been 60 years since activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala. She resisted bus segregation by refusing to give up her seat to a white man when the whites-only section was full. Parks was determined to help propel the civil rights movement through…
