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Employers Go All-Out For Minority Undergrads
By Pepi Sappal Twenty-one-year-old Madeline Sola hasn’t graduated from college yet. But the mechanical-engineering major already has her first employer lined up. If she wants it, Sola has a job waiting for her at Pratt & Whitney, an aircraft-engine, space-propulsion-system and gas-turbine......

The Art of Diversity
Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There’s Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, co......

Ignoring Diversity, Runways Fade to White
By Guy Trebay IN the days of blithe racial assumptions, flesh crayons were the color of white people. “Invisible” makeup and nude pantyhose were colored in the hues of Caucasian skin. The decision by manufacturers to ignore whole segments of humanity went unchallenged for decades before the civil ri......

Myth of Newspaper Diversity Shattered
By Makebra M. Anderson NNPA National Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite all of the professed interest in diversifying newsrooms, almost three-fourths of American newspapers employer fewer people of color than they did in earlier years, according to a new study. An analysis done by Bill Dedman......

Is Black-and-White TV a Thing of the Past?
Networks Establish Diversity Initiatives but Still Have a Way to Go By Michelle Simonelli So many television programs. so little diversity. From sitcoms to dramas, traditional networks to cable, television shows are so heavily Caucasian that African-American activists are demanding — and start......

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