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Running a small business is hard. Those challenges are compounded for Black small business owners. WCBU Student Reporter Jordan Mead explores how local entrepreneurs are breaking down those barriers.
The Peoria area touts hundreds of Black entrepreneurs. But Black-owned businesses cannot thrive without the support of their surrounding communities.
Monica Arbuckle is executive managing partner for AFE Construction, and a board member of the Black Business Alliance. She says that a lack of startup resources, capital, and mentorship are all major challenges facing Black entrepreneurs in particular. But it s especially harder for minority contractors, just to build the trust, Arbuckle said. The other challenge (is) trying to build the relationships within the community to do the business.
An intensive scare for the industry: Admitting to painful truths about racial inequality a big step towards healing it
Why there is no quick fix to improve diversity
Investment Week editor Lauren Mason
Lauren Mason
This past year has seen a huge transformation in how the asset management industry discusses racial diversity in the workplace.
It is refreshing, and a relief, to see such a rapid progression, with reams of asset management firms - including the likes of Aegon, Federated Hermes and J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management - hiring.
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Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut said the company has work to do on pay equity.
The emails came in response to claims of sexism and bullying by Kelly Ellis, who quit Wednesday.
Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut responded on Friday to allegations of gender discrimination and harassment at the company, telling employees in an email that we have work to do on pay equity and inclusion.
Chestnut s email, which was seen by Insider, appeared to contradict internal messaging the company had sent just a day earlier.
Mailchimp chief people and culture officer Robin White told employees in an email Thursday the company has made its hiring, promotion, and pay processes more equitable over the years.
The Livermore Shakespeare Festival has commissioned California playwright and actress Diana Burbano to create an original play focusing on local scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The play is part of the nonprofit Shakespeare Festival’s yearlong Science@Play initiative “to bring the scientific process to life through literature and performance” and “to highlight and provide opportunities for writers, directors, actors and scientists, especially of color,” according to organization’s website.
âDiversity is nothing that can ever be wished away, driven away, or washed away,â said Michael Wayne Rice, the Shakespeare Festivalâs resident director. âIt is baked into the very nature of our nation and the world. We are at a point in history where taking a stand and moving into action is the answer to creating a more just, empathetic and representative world.â
February 26, 2021 at 10:43 AM
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Biglaw firms across the country are implementing all manner of initiatives to bring attention to the importance of diversity and inclusion among their ranks. We’ve previously acknowledged Dorsey & Whitney, Hogan Lovells, Reed Smith, Cooley, and Baker McKenzie as firms where approved diversity and inclusion-related work will be billable for attorneys and will count toward bonus thresholds. We’ve just received word that yet another leading law firm has had a successful program like this that’s been quietly running since 2020 and this firm is offering one of the highest number of billable diversity and inclusion hours we’ve heard of yet.