Also in the news today, companies show little progress on diversity a year after committing to the BlackNorth Initiative
Companies show little progress on diversity a year after committing to BlackNorth Initiative
A vast majority of companies that made a high-profile public commitment last July to combat anti-Black systemic racism by boosting diversity within their ranks and elevating Black people to leadership rolesStory continues below advertisementRogers Communications, Air Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and many more, signed on to the BlackNorth Initiative, created by Bay Street entrepreneur and philanthropist Wes Hall last summer at the height of Black Lives Matter protests across North America.
But a Globe survey of responses from 105 of the 209 companies has found a substantial number of them have neither increased the number of Black employees in their work force nor elevated Black people to executive roles or to the board level during the first year of the commitment. This is the daily Evening Update newsletter. If you’re reading this on the web, or it was sent to you as a forward, you can sign up for Evening Update and more than 20 more Globe newslettersAmazon founder Jeff Bezos returns safely from space on first passenger flight
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