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A new study is shedding light on how racism shows up in the workplace and what organizations can do about it.

Leaders emerge as 'instigators' of racist acts: global report

Leaders emerge as 'instigators' of racist acts: global report

Catalyst surveyed 66% of women, men, transgender and nonbinary employees from marginalized racial and ethnic groups in Australia, Canada, New […] The post Survey: Two-thirds of employees from marginalized groups say they experience racism in the workplace appeared first on TheGrio.

David Ball: Racism and Dr. Seuss Published: 4/23/2021 12:36:05 PM We can feel the pain in the guest column by Jennifer Page, Joy Ohm, Megan Paik and Mia Kim Sullivan (‘So much more than any caricature,’ April 17) criticizing my recent letter to the paper. Using an image the authors found “strangely intimate,” my letter said the writer of a Gazette op-ed was obviously not a racist, yet he read Dr. Seuss as a child. No one became a racist by reading Dr. Seuss, but four years of listening...

Guest columnists Jennifer Page, Joy Ohm, Megan Paik, and Mia Kim Sullivan: ‘So much more than any caricature’ Published: 4/16/2021 5:06:37 PM We are writing in response to the letter from Northampton resident David Ball jeering at a recent op-ed in which the author, a white man, recounted what caricatures of Asian people taught him when he was young (“Nobody ever became a racist by reading Dr. Seuss,” April 7). Like many, we are still mourning the Korean and Chinese American women who ...

Over Half of Indigenous Peoples in Canada are On Guard to Experiences of Bias News provided by Share this article TORONTO, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A study from Catalyst, , found 52% of Indigenous Peoples working in Canada said they are regularly on guard to experiences of bias, a hallmark of emotional tax, with women on guard (67%) significantly more than men (38%). The new research shows that in addition to paying an Emotional Tax – the combination of being on guard to protect again...