At its second annual roundtable with chief diversity officers, just
before President Obama issued an executive order to rebalance the makeup
of a federal workforce in which white men held more than 61 percent of
senior-pay positions as recently as fiscal year 2009, The Network
Journal got an in-depth look at the state of workplace and supplier
diversity at leading corporations
If you believe the mainstream media in this country, Nigerians are among
the most corrupt people in the world,” says Olakunle O. Akinboboye,
M.D. “But that’s a terrible stereotype without an iota of truth.”
Nigerians should have their own newspapers, magazines, radio stations,
television and Internet outlets “to showcase our best and brightest,” he
declares.
In my childhood I learned “variety is the spice of life.” Because I was born into a culture in which spicy food is revered, variety, to me, was a good thing. I spent my entire childhood in what wa
With the United States topping the world’s obesity charts — the most
current figures of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development show 30.6 percent of the U.S. population is “obese” — U.S.
Bancorp Community Development Corp. says it will allocate some of its
New Markets Tax Credit investments to projects that increase the
availability of healthy, affordable food in high-need urban and rural
communities. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than
23 million people currently live in low-income communities that do not
have access to a supermarket or a large grocery store within one mile of
their home.
Globalization, the “Great Recession” and increases in the cost of health
care are among the most popular topics dominating U.S. headlines. It
should come as no surprise, therefore, that these very issues also have a
huge impact on the American workplace and the human resource
professional.
The Executive Leadership Council, which helps to develop and groom
African-American corporate leaders, celebrates its 25th anniversary this
year. On the heels of the organization’s Black Women Manager’s
Symposium in July, and as it prepares for its Annual Recognition Gala on
Oct. 20, The Network Journal spoke with its president and CEO, Arnold
W. Donald, about The ELC’s efforts to see a fair number of Blacks in the
corporate executive pipeline.
On a sweltering July afternoon of 2011 at the 13th annual Harlem Book
Fair in New York City, as booklovers strolled along 135th Street
perusing the tables of the latest offerings by participating authors and
a selection of recently released books, there was scant representation
of “serious literature.” The scene was a hard-hitting reminder that
urban-themed fiction and dramatic love stories have come to overshadow
quality literature by Black authors — not only at book-related events
but also in bookstores. Much of that upstaging has not settled well with
many authors, critics, editors and publishers in the Black literary
community.
