Articles filed under Diversity
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Officials face antisemitic attacks over Hurricane Helene responseOct 08, 2024 7:36 am - Top officials in North Carolina and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency responding to Helene are being subjected to a flurry of antisemitic attacks, causing some o...
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More Black and Latina women are leading unions — and transforming how they workOct 07, 2024 2:14 pm - Women make up roughly half of U.S. labor union membership, but representation in top level union leadership positions has lagged, even in female-dominated industries and ...
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For Pittsburgh Jews, attack anniversary adds to an already grim OctoberOct 06, 2024 6:00 am - Jewish communities everywhere reacted with horror at last year's Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, but the approaching one-year commemoration of the assault hits home particularly hard in Pittsburgh's Jewish community, which already marks a grim anniversary each October.
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Job rate for women in tech has hardly budged since 2005, EEOC findsSep 15, 2024 5:58 am - The share of women in the high-tech industry has barely budged over the past two decades even as the number of lucrative jobs in the field has soared in that time, accord...
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How to talk politics at work without upsetting anyoneSep 15, 2024 5:27 am - Can you believe what happened during the presidential debate? If the idea of that question popping up at work makes you cringe, you’re not alone. As the race for the Whit...
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‘A vibrant hub’: $4.2 million Korean performing arts center opens in WheelingSep 14, 2024 8:15 pm - Dignitaries cut the ribbon Saturday at the Korean Cultural Center of Chicago’s $4.2 million BISCO Hall Performing Arts Center.
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Geneva HS grad publishes debut novel described as a ‘queer rom-com’Sep 13, 2024 3:30 am - Becca Grischow, a 2013 graduate of Geneva High School, launches her writing career with “I’ll Get Back to You,” a novel she describes as a “queer rom-com.”
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With their massive resources, corporations could be champions of racial equity but often waverAug 25, 2024 7:30 am - A Missouri nonprofit founded in 2015 to help address the issues that contributed to the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. and the riots that followed has faced the same lament many philanthropies face.
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5 takeaways from the Democratic National ConventionAug 23, 2024 11:15 pm - How abortion, young voters, door-knocking, and Gaza matter in the November election.
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School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schoolsAug 22, 2024 7:16 am - MADISON, Fla. — Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive expansion in school choice. Now, districts large and sm...