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  • NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 01: LDF President and Director Sherrilyn Ifill speaks onstage at the NAACP LDF 32nd National Equal Justice Awards Dinner at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on November 1, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for NAACP LDF)Newsletters

    Former NAACP legal defense chief says businesses are not living up to racial equity promises

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • Serena and Venus Williams playing Tennis during the Ladies Doubles Quarter Finals matchNewsletters

    Why Jane Campion’s dismissal of Venus and Serena Williams is a teachable moment for allies

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    As long as today’s conversations shape tomorrow’s policies, we will always need to talk about race

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • Teenagers in face masks making signs for a women's rights marchNewsletters

    Gender equity gains hang in the balance as COVID-19 pandemic enters third year

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  • Young African American woman working on her laptop in an office.Newsletters

    How companies can use benefits to address the racial wealth gap

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • People coming from Ukraine descend from a ferry boat to enter Romania after crossing the Danube river at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing between Romania and Ukraine on February 26, 2022, as Ukrainians flee their country following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Newsletters

    Empathizing with Ukrainian refugees: Is it because they’re white?

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    Don’t hide behind your diversity data

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • Young woman talking with team in a meeting. People having planning meeting in hybrid office, with colleagues joing via video call.Newsletters

    How to tell if you’re hitting your Black representation goals

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  • Joy Buolamwini, founder of Algorithmic Justice League, speaking on stage at the Bloomberg Equality SummitNewsletters

    A strategy to minimize bias in A.I. that any company can use

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • Young african woman working at a standing desk in office. Female employee working on computer at ergonomic standing desk.Newsletters

    Where are all the Black people in venture capital?

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  • A Black man working on a laptop at a server stack.Newsletters

    Why companies committed to diversity in tech are still selecting from the same talent pool

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores before a game against the New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium on Jan. 9, 2022, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (John McCall/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Why Brian Flores will never coach in the NFL again

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  • Jennifer Tejada, chief executive officer and chairperson of PagerDuty Inc., speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. TechCrunch Disrupt, the world’s leading authority in debuting revolutionary startups, gathers the brightest entrepreneurs, investors, hackers, and tech fans for on-stage interviews. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    There are smarter ways to think about board diversity, and the pressure is on companies to figure them out

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian
  • INFO FROM WIKI: AND LOC:<br /> During the dawning of the twentieth century, it was widely-presumed that people of African descent had little history besides the subjugation of slavery. Of course, it is obvious today that Africans have significantly impacted the development of the social, political and economic structures of not just the United States but also the world. Credit for the evolving awareness of the true place of blacks in history can, in large part, be bestowed upon one man, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Woodson&#8217;s parents had been enslaved, so he understood the importance of a proper education. Though he didn&#8217;t begin his formal education until the age of 20, he earned his high school diploma, bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in the span of a few years. Then, in 1912, he became the second African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and was the first person of enslaved parents to earn a PhD in history<br /> Public Domainview terms<br /> File:Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, 1915. (18f7565bf62142c0ad7fff83701ca5f6).jpg<br /> Created: Taken on 19 December 1915Newsletters

    Why everyone should be concerned about the miseducation of Black history

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    The new way tech workers of color are protecting themselves when speaking out in the workplace

    By Ellen McGirt and Jonathan Vanian