For the last two years, CNN has been investigating the hiring practices of several top Silicon Valley technology companies, and attempting to look into their workforce diversity data. But they discovered a few things: Most companies blocked their EEO information from being released The government wasn’t willing to cooperate There’s still a lack of diversity…
ABC announced Megalyn Echikunwoke and Cedric Sanders will co-star in “Influence,” a pilot centering on two polar-opposite brothers cracking cases for clients. “Influence” is slated to debut next season and will be accompanied on the primetime schedule by a NBC pilot starring Lance Gross as a secret service agent. Derek Luke has also landed a…
Despite the many articles written about the lack of diversity on the runway and even protests calling for a change, New York Fashion Week is still overwhelmingly white. Jezebel reports: This season, 151 New York designers’ shows were covered by Style.com. Those shows presented 4479 individual women’s wear “looks” to buyers and press, representing 4479…
As President Obama moves into the second term of his presidency, he says, he’s keeping his legacy in mind with each decision. In a recent interview with ABC, he revealed that he wants to be known as a president with a diverse cabinet. “One of my highest priorities as an administration, particularly in my second…
Get ready for a bit more diversity in your television news line-up. The Al-Jazeera Media Network has announced that it will be launching a new U.S-based news channel for American audiences. The network, which provides global news from a Middle Eastern perspective, recently acquired Current TV and will begin to air its English-language news programming…
Conde Nast recently made news for the hire of the first black Editor-in-Chief, Keija Minor, who will oversee Brides Magazine. On the heels of that groundbreaking achievement, we’ve learned Conde Nast has hired another woman of color, Elaine Welteroth as the new Beauty and Health Director of Teen Vogue. Welteroth, who we featured here, formerly…
When the first season of Girls premiered on HBO, Lena Dunham caught a lot of slack because of the lack of “color” in the cast. Although the series centered around young women living in Brooklyn, NY, diversity did not exist. In their version of Brooklyn, which happens to be a lot of people’s version of…
