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Barbie Unveils its First-Ever Doll with Hearing Aids
Mattel’s Fashionistas line will be Barbie’s most inclusive line yet
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How Your Workplace Can Be More Inclusive to All Faiths
Muslim workers are often left out of consideration of workplace diversity initiatives, says Insider reporter Marguerite Ward. She joined LX News to share more from her recent article where Muslim leaders offered advice to CEOs on creating a more accommodating and inclusive workplace for people of all faiths.
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This Diverse Group of Environmentalists Is Making the Outdoors More Inclusive
In this edition of NBCLX’s Climate Change Survival Guide, storyteller Chase Cain talks with the three co-founders of The Outdoorist Oath, which encourages outdoorists to make the community more inclusive. Research shows white Americans are three times more likely to live somewhere with easy access to the outdoors than Americans of color. The founders share moments they’ve felt excluded in...
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How Making the Outdoors More Inclusive Can Help Fight Climate Change
How do we make the outdoors inclusive? And in doing so, how will that help us address climate change? Those were some of the questions I asked Teresa Baker as we hiked through Point Reyes National Seashore, the ancestral land of the Coast Miwok people. “I often call places like this my cathedral, because that’s what it is,” Teresa...
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How Brian Flores' Lawsuit Against the NFL Could Play Out
To win his discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores will have to prove discriminatory intent in hiring practices, says legal analyst Danny Cevallos.
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NYC Tour Company Drives Forward with Diverse Social Mission
From mutating strains to controversial vaccine mandates, the coronavirus pandemic has forced demanding questions and pressure on New York business. Small business owners are finding ways to survive the virus unknowns and look past the pressing hurdles. Over the summer, Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable conducted a survey with more than 35,000 small business leaders, across 30 countries and…
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One Step at a Time: Moving Tourism Forward When a City Shuts Down
A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019 and business was booming for Stacey Toussaint, founder of diversity and inclusion-centered Inside Out Tours. But when the coronavirus pandemic brought the city to a standstill, Toussaint was left to figure out how to keep her tourism business running when there simply were no tourists.
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Grammys Commit to More Hiring Diversity for 2022 Show
The Grammy Awards will adopt an inclusion rider that will require producers to recruit and hire more diverse candidates backstage and in front of the camera for next year’s ceremony.
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‘Friends' Co-Creator Explains the Reason Behind Show's Lack of Diversity
More than two decades after “Friends” debuted, Marta Kauffman is addressing her role in the cast’s lack of diversity.
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Racial Diversity Grows Among LGBTQ Film Characters, Study Finds
The year 2020 saw welcome growth in racial diversity of LBGTQ characters in films released by major studios, according to a new study by the advocacy group GLAAD.
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Oscars Invite Steven Yeun, Issa Rae, Others to Join Academy
Steven Yeun, Nathan Lane, Issa Rae, Robert Pattinson, Janet Jackson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Laverne Cox are among the artists being invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Australia's ‘Bachelorette' Has Cast Its First Openly Bisexual Lead
“I am so ready for this,” Brooke Blurton said about her attempt to find that special someone.
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Lucy Liu Reflects on How Her ‘Charlie's Angels' Role ‘Normalized Asian Identity' for Fans
Lucy Liu reflects on her “iconic” role as Alex Munday in “Charlie’s Angels” in an op-ed about the importance of having the AAPI community reflected in TV and movies.
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Golden Globes 2021: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Call Out HFPA's Lack of Black Members
Fey took a shot at the organization in the show opening, explaining to the two small live audiences made up of first responders and essential workers that “the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around 90 no black journalists.”
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CIA's New Recruitment Website Aims to Diversify Spy Agency
The CIA is looking for spies from all backgrounds and walks of life
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Hollywood's Inclusion Problems Still Run Deep, Study Finds
As Hollywood searches for a response to the reckoning brought on by the death of George Floyd and the Academy Awards move to make Oscar nominees more inclusive, a new study captures how the film industry has improved in diversity and how it still lags.
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NBC News Sets Goal of a Workforce That Is Half Minority
NBC Universal’s News Group’s chairman has set a bold goal of having a workforce at NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC that is 50 percent minority.
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Anthony Mackie Decries Lack of Off-Screen Diversity on Marvel Film Projects
Anthony Mackie, star of the upcoming Disney Plus television series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” said in a recent interview that Marvel movies need more off-screen diversity, adding that he believed it was “racist” that “Black Panther” is the only installment in the superhero franchise with a predominantly Black production crew.
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Pop Culture in 2010s Marked Gains in Diversity, Inclusion
When the family-friendly Hallmark Channel recently pulled, under pressure from a conservative group, a set of ads featuring a kiss between two happy brides at the altar, backlash was swift — to say the least. Within hours, stars like Ellen DeGeneres and William Shatner were tweeting in protest to their many followers, and LGBT advocates were mobilizing a boycott via…