Pamela Newkirk

Newkirk is the author of Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business

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Corporations Say 'Black Lives Matter.' Here's What They Need to Do to Show They Mean It

For 8 min. 46 sec., "I can't breathe," the plaintive refrain of a prone and pleading George Floyd, commanded the screen of a ViacomCBS video. Amid nationwide protests after Floyd's death and polls showing widespread...

By Pamela Newkirk June 25, 2020

Diversity Has Become a Booming Business. So Where Are the Results?

Facing backlash in February over a sweater that looked like blackface, Gucci followed a now predictable course. Company officials apologized for appearing to mine demeaning imagery from the past; hired a global diversity czar, who...

By Pamela Newkirk October 10, 2019
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