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Learning Leadership From the New York Yankees

Leslie Grossman | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Yankees, Leadership, Small Business, Baseball, World Series, Financial District, Parade, Derek Jeter, Business, New York, Joe Girardi, Diversity, New York News

I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees.

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Obama Year One: Good for the Journalists? A Story of Fear and Hope.

Farai Chideya | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Media, Chideya, Barack Obama, Diversity, Media News

One year has passed since a new President was elected. We are less flush and less frivolous. But we are finding the joy in the struggle, and that is a beautiful thing to see.

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An Entire Generation at Stake

Janet Murguía | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Population Reference Bureau, Poverty, Latinos, Children, Credit Programs, Economic Health, Early Childhood Education Programs, Opportunities, Obese-Children, Social Well-Being, Hispanic Children, Congress, Immigration System, Juvenile Justice System, U.S. Citizens, American Dream, Reformed Juvenile Justice System, Success, Education, Graduate From High School, U.S. Population, Health Insurance, Adult Jails, Political Power, Health Care, Fair Housing, Diversity, Politics News

Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.

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Questions on Diversity

Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Colors Theater Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Diversity, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

When large, white organizations produce minority works they typically select the "low hanging fruit," the most popular works featuring the most famous minority performers. This invariably hurts minority arts organizations.

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It's Not OK: A Black Girl 101

Angela Tucker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Black Women, Good Hair, African American Women, Diversity, Comedy, Comedy News

It's not OK to confuse me with another black girl. It's not OK even if the girl bears a passing resemblance to me. I don't care if you feel bad. You should feel bad.

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Diversity: Why Do We Have Such A Hard Time Walking Our Talk?

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Racism, Obama, Hate Crimes, Melting Pot, Pluralism, Diversity, Sexism, Workplace Diversity, The Balanced Life, Living News

I sometimes wonder whether the diversity movement isn't just the latest manifestation of our national schizophrenia - the schism between what we believe as idealists and what we do as realists.

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Reviving the Neighborhood -- At What Expense?

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Denver Hotspots, Latinos, Lower Highland, Denver Neighborhoods, Immigrants, Real Estate, Diversity, Culture, Italians, Highlands, Development, Denver News

How long before Lower Highland becomes the neighborhood equivalent of a tourist trap where long-time Latino locals can't afford to live?

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EQ Deficit Threatens Health Care Reform

Deborah Plummer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Diversity, Emotional Intelligence, Rep. Joe Wilson, Politics News

Whatever the details of the health care bill, our ability to shape the future will be determined by how we interact and treat those with whom we most vehemently disagree.

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Joe Wilson -- This One's Too Easy

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Diversity, Race, Politics, Joe Wilson, Politics News

A South Carolina talk show host said it best, "Joe Wilson didn't lose himself. He was just being himself."

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gop, Reagan Administration, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Satan, Change, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Bailout, Conservatives, Condoleezza Rice, Climate Change, Single Payer, Abraham Lincoln, Fatal Attraction, Polar Bears, Mount Rushmore, Health Care, Michael Steele, Michelle Obama, Elephants, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Moderates, Bush Administration, Health Care Reform, Afghanistan, Bipartisanship, Republicans, Partisanship, Diversity, Republican National Convention, Comedy News

Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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Today's Lesson: Undermining a Black Man's Authority in 2009

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Texas, Obama, Race, Diversity, Obama School Speech, Politics News

Refusing to air the president's speech and pulling a child from school are brazen acts that, in essence, put the President Obama in his place.

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No, Not My America, You Mean Our America

2morrowknight | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict, Diversity, Race, Culture, Gender, Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution, America, Demographics, Living News

Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.

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Uh Oh, Here We Go Again with Ebonics 2.0

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher U, Black Children, Education, Teach for America, Ebonics, Race, Diversity, Inner City Schools, Inner City Culture, Media News

A collaboration of teaching organizations made a frail attempt to exhume the 1990's Ebonics debacle by acknowledging African American English in their training curriculum.

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When Comedy Meets Workplace Diversity

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Abercrombie & Fitch, Insensitivity, Business, Workplace, Comedy, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Ruben Navarrette, Workplace Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, George Lopez, N-Word, Comedy Central, Stand-Up Comedy, Dave Chappelle, Workplace Taboos, Entertainment News

The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings.

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What Affirmative Action Babies Can Give Back

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, Giving Back, Volunteerism, Affirmative Action, Diversity, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Too often, those of us who have benefited from affirmative action forget how and when to give back.

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Mel Martinez and the Last Nail in the Republican Diversity Coffin

John Ridley | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Baggers, Sotomayor Confirmation, Mel Martinez, Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Mel Martinez, Mel Martinez Retiring, Hispanic Voters, Hispanics, Republican Party, Diversity, White Voters, Republicans, Politics News

Martínez's move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."

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Sotomayor and Our Changing Demography

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, GOP Race, Sotomayor Confirmation, Sonia Sotomayor, Hispanic Voters, Gop, Hispanics, Diversity, Politics News

Lack of diversity and a long history of racial intolerance has taken its toll on the Republican brand with the fastest growing non-white part of the population: Hispanics.

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California GOP Now 79% White As State Gets More Diverse: Poll

AP | TOM VERDIN | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Field Poll, Alifornia Republican Party, California Republicans, Diversity, Republicans, Politics News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Republican Party has failed to keep pace with the state's evolving demographics over the past 30 years, sign...

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Why Women of Color Can't Pull a Sarah Palin

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Law, Women, Disparities, Business, Palin, Diversity, Donny Deutsch, Sarah Palin, Deutsch, Business News

What if white women are given preferences and breaks -- where women of color are not -- because white men are attracted to them?

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Diversity is the Key to Profitability

Chloe Drew | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Business Management, Economic Crisis, Women in Business, Post-Racial, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Business News

Is it fair or even appropriate to demand that business leaders focus on diversity rather than solely profitability? Yes -- in fact, you cannot divorce the two.

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Workplace Diversity: What Happens When White Men Don't Want It

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Preference, Race, Business, Workplace, Identity Politics, Bias, Diversity, Racial Preferences, Business News

Until senior-level white men take a stake in the success of their employees of color, their organizations' retention and promotion efforts will fail.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Umpires, Perspective, and the Supreme Court

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

The claim that any human is able to remain unaffected by their background or have a purely objective view of any case is to claim a quality that belongs only to God: omniscience.

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Senator, Would You Be Ok With an All White Court? Really?

David Weinberger | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Wise Latina Woman, Scotus, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Wise Latina, Diversity, Politics News

If all else were equal, would you prefer to have a Court made up of nine white men from similar backgrounds, or a Court that includes men and women of various hues and from a variety of backgrounds?

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