Jobs should be given on merit and not as part of hitting diversity quotas, says veteran broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald Sir Trevor McDonald has said that he favours people being given jobs on merit He also said he struggled with the fame of being such a prominent journalist He said when he joined ITN he … Read more
Junior soldiers risk punishment if they don’t repeat ‘mantras’ on diversity and inclusion in annual assessment forms Soldiers have been told to pledge what their main objective is for the next year Told to say it will be to contribute towards an ‘inclusive culture’ within regiment Intended to help troops of different ethnic, religious or … Read more
BBC staff will be given diversity lessons to stop ‘microaggessions’ in bid to make corporation more welcoming to black programme makers Piers Wenger has been in ‘discussion’ about how to remove ‘unconscious bias’ £250k-a-year Drama Commissioning Controller said it was now ‘ground zero’ Told Edinburgh TV Festival now is ‘the moment where we have to get it … Read more
Prison diversity officer, 51, ‘had inappropriate relationship with inmate and failed to report he had mobile phone behind bars’ Former HMP Wormwood Scrubs officer Pamela Belonwu, 51, is set to go on trial She is accused of having ‘inappropriate’ relationship with inmate Clifton Thomas Alleged relationship said to have taken place between January and March 2019 … Read more
BBC diversity boss June Sarpong admits corporation is ‘nowhere near’ hitting its own targets and says it will ‘take longer than we hoped’ to reach them June Sarpong said BBC not diverse enough at ‘mid-level and senior leadership’ She added it will take ‘longer than hoped’ to reach its BAME leadership target The 43-year-old was … Read more
Lewis Hamilton insists he would give up equalling Michael Schumacher’s record of seven titles in exchange for improving diversity in F1 – and he says he is ‘seeing people change already’ and ‘an awakening’ amid his strong fight against racism Lewis Hamilton has leding the fight against racial discrimination in Formula One The world champion … Read more
From Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adam’s strange Bachelorette season to the bungled announcement of Matt James as the Bachelor, the franchise has been a whirlwind recently. And alum Mike Johnson, 32, who appeared on Hannah Brown’s season 15 of the show, blasted the franchise over its diversity efforts in a new interview with Variety. Speaking … Read more
Before the letter arrived informing neurosurgeon’s daughter Anna Jellinek that she was no longer a welcome member of the cathedral choir where she has sung for more than two years, the teenager thought this year could not get any worse. With her private school closed since March because of coronavirus — and GCSEs, prom and end-of-year … Read more
Bella Hadid has called for more diversity backstage at fashion shows. The 23-year-old supermodel insisted that, while there are black models on the runway, there aren’t enough people working behind the scenes who understand how to work with ‘all different skin types.’ ‘Going into the next season, my fear is having to see another one … Read more
An FDNY diversity official has said that it’s ‘most definitely’ acceptable to keep a white firefighter off a ceremonial color guard so the flag bearers could all be black, according to a new report. White firefighter Lt. Daniel McWilliams filed a lawsuit claiming racial bias after he was removed from a flag-bearing unit at a … Read more