Starting Sunday, December 10, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team published a seven-part series examining the city’s pervasive and persistent national image as a place unwelcoming to black people. The team attempts to answer an important question: Is this reputation still deserved? Read the series from the Boston Globe >
Facebook has shared part of its managing bias training to achieve broader recognition of the hidden biases we all hold and to highlight ways to counteract bias in the workplace. Follow the link to view the video modules and other resources they have made available. View managing bias training >
It shouldn’t be surprising that most diversity programs aren’t increasing diversity. Despite a few new bells and whistles, courtesy of big data, companies are basically doubling down on the same approaches they’ve used since the 1960s—which often make things worse, not better. Firms have long relied on diversity training to reduce bias on the job, […]
Tim Ryan, Senior Partner and Chairman of PwC US, along with 175 CEOs, has created the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion. This cohort is the largest “CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.” In Tim’s words: “Having difficult conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion won’t do any good if you don’t […]
What do you wish people at work understood about you? How are you invisible to them? What do people get wrong about you? When Accenture asked these and other important questions of their employees in a series of workshops, they took the answers seriously. “Frankly, I was blown away,” Ellyn Shook, chief leadership and human […]
On Monday, Aug. 1, NESRI and dozens of other organizations, working beneath the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL), debuted a six-piece platform that outlines what the United States should do to address the well-documented disparities faced by black communities in health, employment, education, criminal justice and housing. Read more >
The Metro Monitor measures the performance of the nation’s major metropolitan economies in three critical areas for economic development: growth, prosperity, and inclusion. Read More >
A new report from the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) highlights the critical conditions of Ohio’s small and mid-sized older industrial cities* and their regions in the wake of the Great Recession and decades of population and manufacturing job loss. Read More >
Our Teaching Tolerance project combats prejudice among our nation’s youth while promoting equality, inclusiveness and equitable learning environments in the classroom. Read More >
This is a guest post by Sarah Treuhaft. This post is the third installment in a series focused on NLC’s 2015 Cities and Unequal Recovery report, which highlights the findings of our 2015 Local Economic Conditions survey. Read More >
