Demonstrators denouncing systemic racism in law enforcement and the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer gather at a press conference in Brooklyn, New York City, calling for the passing of bills to increase police accountability throughout New York state on June 4, 2020. Scott Heins/Getty Images
In the early 2000s, two economic researchers conducted a simple yet revealing experiment. They submitted nearly 5,000 fictitious resumés to help wanted ads posted in Chicago and Boston newspapers. The jobs were for entry-level positions in sales, administrative support, clerical and customer service.
The resumés were all nearly identical same levels of education, work experience, etc. except for one difference: Half of the job applicants were given stereotypically Black names like Lakisha and Jamal, while the other half were given whiter-sounding names like Emily and Greg.
At the New York Botanical Garden, I was awed at the glorious lilac bush in the hills of daffodils. Hundreds of bees were dancing and humming within the bush, making me feel so small in a world so big. (Courtesy of Maddie Thompson)
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New York In all honesty, I didn t fully believe in diversity, equity and inclusion work before coming into my service year. Throughout my time at university, I didn t think about the demographics of the university s student body or staff. Every day, walking through campus, I saw people of all ethnicities, religions and backgrounds, all united with a coffee in one hand and textbooks in the other. I grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in the suburbs of Connecticut, and moving to St. John s U
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Kathy Townsend (far left) and JaKaye Garth (in the foreground), seen speaking here at this yearâs Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in Somerset, are two of the founders of the Lake Cumberland Diversity Council, along with Rikiyah Pryor. File
In his 1963 commencement address at American University, the late President John F. Kennedy famously said, âIf we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.â
Here in Somerset â thanks to the tumultuous summer of 2020 â local people are working on making this community at least, if not the world itself, safer for its own diversity to flourish.
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President Trump has decided to move forward with plans to visit Kenosha Tuesday even as local officials have urged him to reconsider while the city continues to see protests and division following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer. “If I didn’t INSIST on having the National Guard activate and go into Kenosha, Wisconsin, there would be. Kenosha Sep 1, 2020
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