Mar 4, 2024 | Business, Diversity, Leadership
Lately, it seems as if companies have thrown Black leaders in design and technology into survival mode. Between the layoffs of DEI teams and the public attacks on Black leaders’ worthiness to lead, the heyday of promises to diversify leadership that started in 2020...
Jul 10, 2023 | Diversity, Environment, Higher Education
Before starting college, Taylor Mohead had never been outside her hometown of Houston, Texas. Now, the recent Tuskegee University graduate is trekking around trees in Hazel Green, Alabama, in fire gear and sweltering heat. The U.S. Forest Service intern is among 20...
Nov 28, 2022 | Diversity, Leadership
Let’s look at four ways you, as a diversity leader — or as one of your executive peers — can thrive in this vital role. Ensure that the Diversity Leader’s role is scoped and resourced for achievement The ‘DEI Why’ has to be clear and...
Nov 21, 2022 | Diversity, Education
Historically Black colleges and universities are just as prestigious as Ivy League schools, and they’re diverse. That is why, leaders say, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions will be even more important to students of color should the Supreme Court end...
Jul 18, 2022 | Books, Diversity
Children’s books are growing up. We’re buying more of them. According to the NPD Group, sales of children’s and young adult fiction and nonfiction are up 17% this year, compared to 2019′s pre-pandemic benchmark. And there isn’t just more children’s literature in...
May 23, 2022 | Books, Culture, Diversity
Parents should be encouraging their children to read stories about black characters, an author has said. Catherine Johnson said: “Children – white readers – will read books about bears and owls and cats. Why can’t they read books with black...
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