Via Business Insider.  Companies like Netflix, McDonald’s, and Target are speaking out amid the George Floyd protests — and some are actually taking action Protests erupted across the US after the death of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and now … Read More

Via Stanford Social Innovation Review. The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards By Aysa Gray Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not privilege the values of white and Western employees and leave behind people of color. The standards of professionalism, according to American grassroots organizer-scholars Tema Okun and Keith Jones, are … Read More

Via The New York Times.  From Inclusion to Support: How to Build a Better Workplace Photo by Shonagh Rae By The New York Times At the New Rules Summit, hosted by The New York Times, participants working in groups proposed changes to create equitable environments in the workplace. Here are the topics, quotations from group leaders and … Read More

Via The New York Times.  The Effect of Intersectionality in the Workplace By Alina Tugend Photo by Andrea Levy The concept of intersectionality — referring to the complex and cumulative way different forms of discrimination like racism, sexism and classism overlap and affect people — seems have popped up relatively recently. But as Brittany Packnett, an … Read More