Conventional wisdom says that the more diverse the teams in terms of age, ethnicity, and gender, the more creative and productive they are likely to be. But that’s just not true. What really counts is cognitive diversity.
A senior executive at Marvel Comics has claimed that the company’s recent focus on creating diverse superheroes is a driving factor behind its declining comic book sales, arguing that loyal customers “were turning their noses up” at their efforts.
Finding ways to make baseball better has become an all-consuming topic in sports talk. Limit the number of relievers, end the intentional walk, limit the time and frequency of replays; all these issues and more have found their way to Commissioner Manfred’s desk.
Who knew TV casting directors could hold the key to ending the war on terror?
Americans support Donald Trump’s Jan. 25 comprehensive immigration reform by three to one, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports.
President Donald Trump’s new nominee to run the Department of Labor is an accomplished lawyer and a rising star in the GOP’s Hispanic and pro-diversity wing.
Citing figures that show firefighters in England are 96 per cent white and 95 per cent male, a Home Office minister slammed fire services over a “woeful” lack of ‘diversity’.
The head of Goldman Sachs is lashing out at President Trump’s immigration pause. The story from Bloomberg Markets: Goldman Sachs is pushing back against Government Sachs. In a sharply worded message to staff, Lloyd Blankfein, the bank’s long-time head, broke with
A new report from Bloomberg suggests that Facebook failed to meet its own “diversity” goals because of the role of white and Asian engineers in final hiring decisions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined the challenge in a lawsuit that is fighting against what Paxton calls “unconstitutional racial and sex-based quotas.”
Two of the main British Film Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) awards will only be awarded to films which meet diversity targets, the British Film Institute (BFI) has announced. From 2019 onwards, nominations for the awards of ‘outstanding
Teachers went on strike Tuesday to protest plans which will see their school merged with another in Paris’s 18th arrondissement in order to make them more ‘socially diverse’.
Prominent Catholic scholar of Renaissance literature Anthony Esolen is under attack for daring to talk openly about the teachings of the Catholic faith.
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has said British theatre is “hideously white” and will not survive unless more resources are funnelled to black and Asian drama students and performers.
Breitbart London editor in chief has told Ireland’s national broadcaster that the Breitbart News Network has “effortless diversity” within its ranks, as the establishment media continues to attack the company as a “white nationalist” site. From an interview with Radio RTE: “Brexit
Wikileaks released a new batch of emails on Thursday that were sent by then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Leon Podesta when he was preparing for his transition to the presidency. One email, from senior Citigroup executive Michael Froman, included lists of candidates for presidential appointment, evidently prepared at Obama’s request, focusing on women and minorities.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended venture capitalist Peter Thiel on Tuesday from a Silicon Valley backlash against him for donating money to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama is urging U.S. security agencies to diversify their federal workforce by hiring more minorities while “cultivating talent consistent with merit system principles,” according to a presidential memo.
The BBC has let go a long-standing, award winning comedian from Radio 4 because he was “white and male” and therefore didn’t fit in with diversity targets, he has claimed. Jon Holmes has appeared on Radio 4’s The Now Show
Director Tim Burton slammed political correctness in his response to criticism about the “lack of diversity” in his films, claiming that he is far more offended when producers cast minority actors in their projects for the sole reason of diversity.
Hollywood trade publication Variety will host its first conference on diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry in November, the outlet announced Monday.
Music mogul-turned Hollywood producer Russell Simmons slammed so-called “progressive activists” in Hollywood for turning the entertainment business into a racially segregated industry.
Some of Britain’s best-loved and most watched programmes, including EastEnders and Coronation Street, are to be monitored for their ethnic, gender and sexual orientation diversity as part of a new scheme to be rolled out eventually across the whole of
Hollywood director Tyler Perry is defending the decision to cast predominantly white actors to star in his new TLC drama series Too Close to Home.
Good Morning America host Amy Robach has apologized for making a reference to “colored people” on Monday’s broadcast of the ABC program.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey and movie director Ava DuVernay shared their thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, telling the outlet that the movement is more than a “slogan and the hashtag and the protest” and that “inclusion” is a better barometer for racial progress in the entertainment industry than the often-used term “diversity.”
CBS Entertainment President Glenn Geller was repeatedly forced to defend his network from reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills Wednesday over the network’s lack of racial diversity in its primetime programming.
A British police force has revealed a new rainbow flag decorated patrol car in “a sign of solidarity” with the “LGBT+ community”.
Donald Trump’s National Diversity Coalition adviser Dr. Lisa Shin heralded her parents’ story of immigrating to the United States, slammed Hillary Clinton as a threat to and pointed to Donald Trump as preserver of the American Dream.
A North African football team has been sent home from the Gothia World Youth Cup tournament in Sweden after members sexually assaulted three teenagers at the event’s opening ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited a record 683 new members this year in an effort to increase the diversity of its membership and avoid a repeat of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy the organization has endured for the past two years.
Whether he knows it or not, Donald Trump’s “Pocahontas” criticism of Elizabeth Warren shows how diversity has paralyzed the Democrat Party.
The editor of the Journal of American Greatness wrote the following on the recent controversy surround Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump and the judge in the Trump University case.
Steven Moffat, the executive producer of hit BBC programme Dr. Who, has said that he intends to “lie” to his audiences and revise history to include more black people in the show’s episodes. Speaking to BBC journalists about positive discrimination
Australia’s national women’s soccer team – hotly tipped for a medal at the Rio Olympics – has been thrashed 7-0 by a team of under-15-year-old boys. Students at Yale University have petitioned their English Department for a change of curriculum. They
At least 10 percent of BBC employees should be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transsexual (LGBT), a government policy paper has said. The target is nearly twice that of broadcasting rival Channel 4, which, as a broadcaster tasked with promoting diversity,
Comedian Sir Lenny Henry has labeled the BBC an “oppressive institution” and “very, very white”, urging it to change and diversify. The BAFTA winning founder of Comic Relief also said black actors who do progress in the media and show business stop
The BBC has concluded Christianity features too prominently in its religious output in an internal review, insisting other faiths be given more airtime and resources. Both the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – who are
While delivering a commencement address Wednesday at Florida International University in Miami, Obama administration National Security Adviser Susan Rice lamented what she sees as the lack of “diversity in the realm of foreign policy and national security.”
The founding chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission under Tony Blair has warned that UK is about to “sleepwalk to catastrophe” because it’s leaders too “complacent” and “squeamish” to talk about mass migration. “Rome may not yet be in
