ADDRESSING RACIAL INJUSTICE. As I shared in our Employee Town Hall last month, and in my email earlier this month, we are committed to take action to help address racial injustice and inequity, and unequivocally […]
TEACHING ONE SIDE OF THE STORY. That isn’t education — it’s indoctrination, writes Jonathan Zimmerman, who warns against imposing a singular interpretation or ideology that prevents a true and honest education […]
RESTRUCTURE YOUR ORGANIZATION TO ACTUALLY ADVANCE RACIAL JUSTICE. For diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioners like me, the influx of interest we’re seeing from organizations that want to both support […]
PROFESSOR’S WORK INFORMS PROPOSED U.S. COMMISSION ON RACIAL HEALING. recently proposed U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, The draft of the proposal, has been in the works for […]
EIGHT YEARS AFTER POLICE FATALLY SHOT A BLACK TEENAGER, RENEWED CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION. Malcolm Gracia was walking to a store with a friend on a May night in 2012 […]
ART SHOW CONTINUES RACE CONVERSATION. Natalie Katsikas and Benito Gutierrez met in a gallery production class at Butte College. Both were distraught by the death of George Floyd by police, […]
EXCAVATION BEGINS FOR POSSIBLE MASS GRAVE FROM 1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE. Nearly a century ago, Tulsa, Okla., was the site of one of the most brutal race massacres in U.S. […]
OPEN BOOKS, OPEN MIND: RACE, RACIAL JUSTICE TOPICS NOW HUGE AMONG READERS. I’s one thing for [the} recent New York Times national bestseller list for nonfiction to feature seven of […]
ELEVATING RACIAL EQUALITY REQUIRES A HOLISTIC ESG APPROACH. As we head into August, companies must go beyond standalone Black Lives Matter statements and social media blackouts. ESG (environmental, social, governance) performance […]
ANTI-RACISTS DICTIONARY: 16 WORDS ON RACE, GENDER, AND DIVERSITY YOU SHOULD KNOW. America, it seems, is undergoing a transformation. Calls for racial equity, diversity, and inclusion can be heard from […]
THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION THAT EXISTING LAWS FAIL TO CAPTURE. America’s current reckoning with racism forces a critical question: Why are existing laws failing to protect people of color?
HOW BANKS AIM TO CLOSE RACIAL WEALTH GAP: MORE MINORITIES IN LEADERSHIP. Calls for swift action to end systemic racism have gotten louder in the weeks since the death of […]
“Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root.” The Equal Justice Initiative has documented sixty-four hundred lynchings of Black men, women, and children between […]
CISCO FIRES WORKERS FOR RACIAL COMMENTS DURING DIVERSITY FORUM. During a series of Cisco Systems Inc. online all-hands meetings on race in early June, some workers posted comments in message channels that […]
COSTCO DIDN’T ENFORCE ITS DRESS CODE — UNTIL EMPLOYEES STARTED WEARING BLACK LIVES MATTER MASKS. Employees say that despite its public statements about supporting Black employees, the company is selectively […]
13 BLACK ARTISTS ON LIFE IN AMERICA NOW. The Artist Statements project is an ever-evolving creative tribute to the agonies and the ecstasies of Black American life—from police brutality and civil rights […]