Gold medal-winning high jumper Roderick Townsend and U.S. flag bearer and sitting volleyball star Nicky Nieves took different routes to the Paris Paralympics.
With just over a month before the Paris Olympics, Louis Vuitton celebrated the beauty of humans and their skin in a star-studded menswear showcase at the headquarters of U.N. cultural agency UNESCO in Paris.
Venus DeMilo Thomas is a working director/producer/writer who voices the character Tina in Netflix’s “Good Times.”
Proponents say the growing use of AI in fashion modeling showcases diversity in all shapes and sizes, allowing consumers to make more tailored purchase decisions that in turn reduces fashion waste from product returns. And digital modeling saves money for companies and creates opportunities for people who want to work with the technology.
Despite gains in faculty diversity at American universities over the last two decades, Black and Hispanic professors remain underrepresented compared to their students and to professionals with advanced degrees in other fields, according to a federal report released Tuesday.
Ricky Hill packed his bags and prepared to uproot his life again. Next stop: Chicago. The former England international soccer player is accustomed to making sacrifices and traveling far to build his coaching career, an effort he says has been stymied because he is Black.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Commission for Women held its 39th Annual Women of the Year Awards and Commemorative Celebration on March 18. The program was aptly themed “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.”
Erin M. Smith, senior vice president, Chief Talent, Culture, and Operations Support Officer, explains how SoCalGas champions communities by advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its business practices.
On behalf of Bakewell Media and the L.A. Sentinel, six outstanding women will be honored at the “Power, Leadership and Influence of the Black Woman” event on Saturday, April 13, at the Fairmont Century Plaza.
Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) has continued to align with music companies and industry professionals to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion by hosting a slate of event programming during 2024’s Grammy week.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that colleges cannot implement race-conscious admissions policies to help build diversity on their campuses.
The stereotype of the absent Black dad remains quite ubiquitous in popular culture. It often takes the form of a dysfunctional family unit, but in recent years, studies have proven that the stereotype is nothing more than a myth. That legend is further vaporized in the new children’s book, “I Love My Daddy,” by Maryland social worker and military veteran Juanita Banks Whittington.
Educators, policymakers, K-12 leaders, higher education leaders, non-profit leaders, researchers, and advocates from across California recently gathered to develop a shared understanding of the root causes of why educators of color and multilingual educators enter, stay, and leave the profession and co-create a road map for building and supporting a diverse and sustainable teacher workforce in California.
Children’s Bureau is one of the largest private, non-profit adoption agencies in California and one of the few that is nationally accredited by the Child Welfare League of America. In Los Angeles County alone, the foster care population exceeds 33,000 children with 200 of those foster children waiting for an adoptive family.
Cal State LA has been awarded an $880,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to increase diversity in STEM fields through recruiting and training the next generation of molecular simulation scientists.