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Hollywood Losing $10B in Potential Annual Revenue From Black Inequity, Says McKinsey Report Rebecca Sun Black Inclusion in Hollywood As Hollywood companies and affiliated organizations scramble to hire diversity experts and strategists as part of their public commitments to inclusion, management consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. has applied its analytic expertise to the industry as a whole in a report diagnosing the experience of Black professionals working in entertainment. Penned by McKinsey partners Jonathan Dunn, Sheldon Lyn and Ammanuel Zegeye and consultant Nony Onye...

Florida State University News Faculty and Staff Briefs: February 2021 Published: HONORS AND AWARDS The FSU Alumni Association was recognized with a 2021 CASE District III award and received Grand Gold in the category of Alumni/General Interest Magazines produced two times per year for its biannual alumni publication, VIRES magazine. Mackenzie Alston, Ph.D. (Department of Economics) was selected for a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to support diversity in economics. The one-year fellowship is open to early-career economists from historically unde...

Minority representation on the rise in 'most diverse city in Northern Kentucky' Minority representation on the rise in 'most diverse city in Northern Kentucky' and last updated 2021-02-24 18:02:06-05 COVINGTON, Ky. — Covington is considered the most diverse city in Northern Kentucky and now, representation in local political positions is finally beginning to reflect that. Ron Washington, vice mayor of Covington said he remembers when "the city was separated by Madison Avenue, east and west." The eastern side of the city, he said, was predominantly populated by African Americans. Miche...

  Inviting feedback from college students doesn’t necessarily mean they feel heard -- just as spelling out campus department functions online doesn’t guarantee students know whom to turn to when an issue arises. With higher ed financial models relying on satisfied students who stay and complete their studies, those realities spell trouble. Add COVID-19 to the mix, and there's even more reason for concern. Although higher ed institutions transitioned quickly last year to teaching and supporting students from a distance as COVID kept them apart -- and continued to enhance their offerings ...

Previous image Next image In a new study by MIT professors Esther Duflo, Ben Olken, and Abhijit Banerjee, and physicians Marcella Alsan and Fatima Cody Stanford, along with other doctors and economists, public health video messages featuring a racially diverse set of physicians were found to decrease knowledge gaps about Covid-19 symptoms and transmission — generating important lessons about how we communicate about, and work to mitigate the effects of, the virus. Study results also indicated that, for Black individuals, watching a video with a racially concordant (Black) physician increase...