Diversity

Eyes in My Eyes

Terry Marotta | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Boston, New Orleans, Dialects, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Katrina, Accents, Diversity, Regional Dialects, Living News
Terry Marotta

I had a lesson in diversity last week in New Orleans, where I found myself so completely out of my element that when a couple of young women kept calling me "Ma'am" I took their tone for sarcastic.

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Why Are Many Americans Looking for Change?

Rick Smolan | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Photography, Dwellings, Change, Collaborative Events, Diversity, Home, America, Family, Living News
Rick Smolan

Those who fear we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves; it's this complexity that determines who we are.

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Russert's Legacy: A Woman Meeting the Press?

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary, Politics, Obama, Diversity of Pundits, Russert, Diversity, Gender, Meet the Press, Women and Media, Women and Politics, Meet the Press Replacement, John Edwards Meet the Press, Media News
Marie Wilson

Visibility is viability, and wouldn't it be great to have Meet the Press, the most prestigious and hard hitting show on the Sunday circuit, feature a woman host?

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White Male Pundit Power

Ari Melber | Posted 06.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Black Media, Michael Kinsley, Women Media, Women Op-Ed, Susan Estrich, Nick Kristoff, Fred Hiatt, Op-Ed, Media Diversity, Diversity, Media News
Ari Melber

The elite opinion media continues to employ, groom and promote a commentators corps that is disproportionately white and male.

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DNC Thinks LGBT Has Too Many Letters?

Bil Browning | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogger Credentials, Pam's House Blend, Democratic National Convention, The Bilerico Project, Diversity, Towleroad, Media News
Bil Browning

The list of credentialed blogs to cover the Democratic National Convention was released this evening and Bilerico Project was denied credentials. Con...

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The Israel I Was Fighting For

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Israeli-Arabs, Jewish Culture, Statehood, Israel, Nations, Diversity, Israelis Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Sixty years ago, when I was fighting for Israel during its war of independence, I won a lot of respect. Now many of my liberal colleagues, including Jewish ones, raise their eyebrows.

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Ivan Katz | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Arts Council, Timesonline, Racial Diversity, Diversity, Grants, Sexual Orientation, Living News
Ivan Katz

Arts organizations in Britain applying for grants from the Arts Council "are being asked to state how many board members are bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian or whose inclinations are 'not known.'"

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Native Plants Belong in Native Habitats

Paige Donner | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Land Use, Baby Bird Food, Birds, Beverly Hills, Susan Gottlieb, Rainfall, Theodore Payne, Theodore Payne Foundation, Native Plants, Caterpillars, California Native Plant Gardens, Garden Tour, Extinction, California Oak Tree, Biodiversity, Butterflies, Ecosystem, Insects, Water Conservation, Diversity, Native Plant Gardens, Living News
Paige Donner

Only 7% of insects can eat non-native plants. Without insects to convert plant material to proteins most higher land animal life forms will go extinct.A California native oak tree can support over 400 different kinds of insects. A Norway maple, for example, supports nothing.

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Diversity: Is It A Bad Thing?

Newsweek | Eboo Patel | Posted 04.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Diversity Good, Birds of a Feather, Diversity Bad, Bowling Alone Robert Putnam, Robert Putnam, Michael Jonas, Bowling Alone, Social Capital, Diversity, Living News

The first thing my wife and I comment on when we go to a restaurant or a park is the diversity. We generally want more. We're part of a generation of ...

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Forty Years On: Kerner and the Liberal Media

John Ridley | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Asne, New York Times Diversity, Liberal Media Bias, Ational Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Kerner Report, Racism, New York Times, Otto Kerner Jr., American Society of Newspaper Editors, Newsroom Diversity, Lbj, Diversity, Media Bias, Diversity in the Workplace, Media News
John Ridley

For all the areas of society in which blacks -- and by extension all minorities -- have enjoyed some measure of parity, there is one glaring and ironic omission: the very media which is so often accused of having a liberal bias.

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Why Are So Many Bigshot Political Reporters Apologizing Now?

Eric Deggans | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Elections, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Media, Apology, Mark Halperin, Diversity, Journalism, Hillary Clinton, David Shuster, Cable News, Ed Rendell and Race, David Shuster Chelsea Clinton, Mark Halperin Pussy, Ed Rendell Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Race, David Shuster Pimp, Ed Rendell, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Ed Rendell and Obama, Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews Apology, Media News
Eric Deggans

The presence of a black man and woman as important presidential candidates is forcing these guys to rethink how they talk about politics. And some of them are failing miserably.

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Christmas Does Not Belong in the Workplace

Penelope Trunk | Posted 12.16.2007 | Business

Read More: Religion, Religion and Work, War on Christmas, Holiday Season, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Christmas, Business News
Penelope Trunk

Those of us who have no reason to celebrate it have to spend a month between Thanksgiving and New Year's dealing with Christmas at work.

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FCC Chairman Martin Maintains That he is Only Interested in Creating More Media Competition, Diversity, and Localism

Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.03.2007 | Home

Read More: Competition, And Localism, Diversity, Home News
Norman Horowitz

Before you do anything else check out this link. Now please read .the following: This has been excerpted from Chairman Martin's recent address ...

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What Studies Might Show

Ed Whitfield | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Education, Black Children and Learning, Race and Education, Race, Segregation, Diversity, Middle Class, Politics News
Ed Whitfield

Claims are made that the cause of black student underachievement is the imbalance of school populations. This doesn't make any sense to me, and no study could show otherwise.

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