Diversity Management, News and Updates
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…
During Black History Month, DiversityInc is honoring a series of Black innovators and history makers such as Bessie Coleman who are often overlooked in mainstream media coverage and history books. Check back throughout February to learn about more important figures. Bessie Coleman, Pioneer Aviatrix Born: Jan. 26, 1892, Atlanta, Tx….
Major League Baseball has righted a generations-old wrong this week by elevating the Negro Leagues to MLB status. This inclusion will allow for 3,400 Black players from seven leagues that formed due to segregation and had operated between 1920 and 1948 to receive newfound recognition in a number of ways,…
Girl Scouts of the United States has appointed Judith Batty as interim CEO, making her the first black professional to hold the position. Batty, who is a board member, former senior legal counsel, corporate leader and lifelong Girl Scout, will begin her duties starting August 15, taking over from Sylvia…
Michelle Obama spoke out against “white flight” Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. She said she experienced it as a child growing up on the South Side of the city, but that it still exists today with immigrants as the “others.” “I want to remind white folks that…
Over the last 25 years, the number of children in U.S. public schools with students of other races has doubled, the Washington Post found, and is indicative of the country’s shifting demographics to more people of color, especially Spanish speakers. However, Black students are more likely than any other race…
A photo of two white Galveston, Texas mounted police officers leading a handcuffed Black man on a rope has prompted the city’s police chief to issue an apology. The photo an anonymous witness took and shared Aug. 3 has gone viral, sparking outrage for hearkening back to images of slavery…
Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris did not wait for moderators to bring up segregation at Thursday night’s primary debate. Harris confronted former-Vice President Joe Biden about his spotty record of supporting Black people. Harris repeatedly went over her allotted time to confront Biden about his recent comments about missing…
A new NYU School of Medicine analysis has found that the worst life expectancy gap between neighborhoods is in Chicago, between the upper-class Streeterville neighborhood and Englewood. Englewood is 95 percent Black. Streeterville is 73 percent white and 16 percent Asian. Residents of Streeterville live to be 90, while residents…
Lessons on racism have a whole new meaning in public schools, and they’re popular among white educators. A Shorewood Intermediate School teacher was instructing seventh-graders about games from around the world and separated the students by race. One of the Black students, MaHailey Stephens, said she and her Black classmates…