Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Kim Kaiser’s son was 10 years old when she first spoke with him about the challenges he’d face as a black man with disabilities.

While it is difficult to underestimate the financial stress of unemployment, there are a number of serious mental health externalities that can manifest when an employee is left, unexpectedly and involuntarily, without work.

In the current climate where consistent and perpetual acts of racism have led to demonstrations all over the world, is it now time for leaders to march towards making diversity and inclusion a key component of organizational and operational processes?

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to result in an unprecedented recession, but new research urges policy makers not to use the crisis to erect further barriers to immigration, as this will almost certainly make the recession worse

In today’s climate, when pent up anger and frustration makes story-telling difficult, leaders need to learn not only how they themselves can hear others’ views but also how to create a space for those views to be shared and received.

For the black community, law enforcement has long been experienced as “harass and brutalize” rather than “protect and serve.” The heightened police response to anti-racism demonstrators in cities across America has moved this call to defund the police to the front of the national conversation.

The kente stoles were reportedly given out by the Congressional Black Caucus.

Since the insidious death of George Floyd, this column opens up the larger conversation of 'otherness' and its impact on culture change and the need for an equitable society. What are the role of business and specifically Diversity and Inclusion professionals to make these changes.

Shivani Berry is the CEO and Founder of Ascend, which offers online professional development programs to help women excel in their careers. She is passionate about empowering women to have equal opportunities to advance at work and achieve their dream careers.

Black universities hold the moral high ground in responding to Covid-19 and racism, yet they lack resources compared to predominantly white institutions

Today is Tourettes Awareness day (June 7). I have seen lots of great engagement and information circulating. However, as is standard with social media these days not all content is accurate or even helpful so I thought I would write this week about this much misunderstood condition.

If you are queer and black at this moment in American history, you are experiencing a unique and possibly confusing set of realities.

The American Medical Association Sunday pledged “to confront systemic racism and police brutality” at a special virtual meeting of the group's policy-making body.

“This is a thing people have been saying for a very long time, and it’s news to a certain segment of America. And those are white people, for the most part.”

With a need for human contact and guidance outside, blind people have had their world turned upside down by the requirements of social distancing and now risk becoming isolated and marginalized.

Some recent Tweets by the best-selling author are a stark reminder of the need to create inclusive communities, not just on the basis of race, but of gender as well.

AI is giving resource-strapped public defenders a helping hand. The Tubman project provides an augmented intelligence capability to assist public defenders offices by giving them analytics, document analysis, and other AI-enabled capabilities to chronically under-resourced public defenders.