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Study: Gender hiring up, number of Black players fall in MLB
A study examining diversity hiring practices finds Major League Baseball with rising gender scores but also a three-decade low for Black players on opening day rosters. Wednesday’s report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at Central Florida issued an overall...
As diversity rises, US boards still disproportionately white
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be. Boards of directors at publicly traded U.S. companies are much more white and much less diverse than the...
NFL gives defense against Black coaches' discrimination suit
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is telling a judge there are multiple reasons why a lawsuit brought against it by three Black coaches who allege racist hiring practices should fail. In the letter released Thursday in advance of an initial hearing before a Manhattan federal judge, the...
Strong influences help mold 2022 US Teacher of the Year
OBERLIN, Ohio (AP) — It hardly seems a stretch to say Kurt Russell was born to be a history teacher. Raised on his mother's stories about segregation and the civil rights movement in Alabama and influenced by teachers from his childhood, the 50-year-old Russell has spent the last...
McDonald's investors will consider civil rights audit
McDonald’s investors will consider a proposal for a civil rights audit of the company after the federal government denied McDonald’s request to remove the proposal from the agenda at its annual meeting. SOC Investment Group, a shareholder advocacy group that supports union...
California corporate diversity law ruled unconstitutional
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional. The brief ruling granted summary judgment to Judicial Watch, a...
All-female Decatur fire chief team blazes trail of diversity
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The Decatur Fire Department touts itself as a bastion of progressiveness, pushing boundaries in an arena of public safety that tends to be entrenched in tradition. It was the first and remains the only fire department in the United States with an all-female...
Fed's rate hikes threaten its goal of narrowing racial gaps
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment. Yet the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes — shaping up to be the steepest in 15 years — threaten to reverse that progress. The Fed's rate hikes will mean...
Union representing Southern Poverty Law Center protests
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The union representing workers at the Southern Poverty Law Center protested Monday in front of the civil rights group's headquarters, saying there are racial disparities in the organization's plans to return to the office after pandemic restrictions are eased. ...
101-year-old broke barriers at national security complex
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — She’s Black history and women’s history all by herself, and when you sit down with “Mother Clara” you sort of feel like you’ve known her forever. She serves warm hugs and a smile and can tell you her life story like anyone half her age. ...
