Pamela Newkirk

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

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Brian Flores' Lawsuit Shows the Limits of the Rooney Rule

While mountains of studies and the paucity of African Americans in most professions have long signaled the prevalence of hiring discrimination, the insidiousness of the practice typically makes it difficult to prove. It’s why the...

By Pamela Newkirk

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

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
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