Good News

Zoe Terry, 11, founded the non-profit Zoe’s Dolls as an avenue to encourage Black girls to have a positive self-image.

Biz/Media

Lynette Abbott created her business Craft My Occasion to increase the racial representation in children’s party supplies.

Sports

This year's installment of the Winter Olympic Games is the most diverse its ever been.

The new plan was created after a Black sorority was targeted with bananas in nooses.

Google promoted Valeisha Butterfield Jones to head its global women and Black Community engagement initiative.

Facebook has named retiring American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault as its first African-American director after years of recruitment efforts.

H&M hires a diversity director after major controversy over a racist ad that featured a young Black male model in a "Coolest Monkey In The Jungle" hoodie.

Dana Gresham, who previously served in the Obama administration, will become Doug Jones’ chief of staff, according to reports.

Good News

Yelitsa Jean-Charles launched Healthy Roots Dolls to encourage Black girls to embrace their natural hair.

Biz/Media

Denise Young Smith, VP of Diversity and Inclusion at Apple has resigned.

The head of Yale's Pierson College comes under fire for apparently backtracking on a plan to remove portraits of his White predecessors.

Nation

Columbia University has pledged to allocate $100 million over the span of five years towards faculty diversity.