Six Black women have landed the covers of major mainstream publications this month. The saga continues in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
Marvel has reinvented Moon Boy and the Devil and the Dinosaur with a new young Black woman named Moon Girl.
NewsOne continues our weekly events calendar for Chicagoans looking to network with tech professionals or meet a legend in food franchising
NewsOne continues our weekly events calendar for Chicagoans looking to hone their entrepreneurial or coding skills.
NewsOne continues our weekly events calendar for Chicagoans making it happen with events for IT professionals and Hispanic business owners.
In response to complaints that New York City’s police force fails to reflect the city’s multiculturalism, the department on Wednesday welcomed about 1,217 recruits to the ranks in one of “the most diverse” classes in recent history, according to The New York Daily News. Of the recruits, 78 percent are men and 22 percent are […]
At a time when the nation is riveted by racial imbalances in the criminal justice system after dozens of high-profile police-related deaths of Blacks, a new study reveals a paucity of diversity in the ranks of elected prosecutors who bring criminal charges and negotiate prison sentences, according to The New York Times. The study, scheduled […]
Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports. That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted […]
Amid demands by civil rights leaders and others for employers to improve foundering diversity on Silicon Valley, Facebook has been slow to build a workforce that mirrors its 1.4 billion users around the globe, according to the Guardian. Despite repeated promises by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chairman and chief executive, to build a less homogenous workforce, […]
Silicon Valley‘s diversity problem is well-known. As Bloomberg reported last fall, Black and Hispanic people combined only had 6 percent of the tech jobs at four industry giants: Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter. If you want to know why it’s been so difficult to diversify the workforce in Silicon Valley to include more Black and Hispanic […]
One thing civil rights activists must do is keep the public’s attention on serious matters. Still, even they have a sense of humor. One would argue that they must in order to keep fighting. So, there was this time at a hunger strike…. In a moment of levity during an interview at First Annual Diversity […]
On Tuesday Johnny C. Taylor, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, stopped by “NewsOne Now” to make a major announcement that could literally change the lives of thousands of HBCU students across the country. Fresh off the heels of its Apple Watch announcement, Apple released a statement through Fortune Magazine stating that […]
