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DEI Insights This Week!

1. An Employer's Guide to Supporting Workers with Autism. -Harvard Business Review

2. Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net. -NPR

3. From cash stipends to 'It's OK days': The cost of child care crisis is making parental benefits the top issue for over half of companies. -Fortune

4. Jason Kelce's retirement tears hold an important lesson for men: It's OK to cry. -USA Today

5. West Haven schools to recognize Eid al-Fitr with day off in 2024-2025. -CT Insider
   

The Equal Justice Initiative has a calendar of racial justice moments n history. Here are a few for the month of February! Comment a fact that you learned about today!

February 1, 1965: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more than 200 others are arrested and jailed after a voting rights march in Selma, Alabama.

February 4, 1846: Alabama launches convict leasing by leasing Wetumpka State Penitentiary and its inmates to a private businessman.

February 5, 1917: Congress passes the Immigration Act of 1917 to bar entry of Asian, Mexican, and Mediterranean people, poor people, and those with mental or physical disabilities or criminal records.

February 8, 1968: White state troopers fire into a group of Black students at South Carolina State College who were trying to desegregate a bowling alley, killing three and injuring 28.

February 13, 1960: Nashville students launch sit-in demonstrations to demand an end to racial…

This week's edition of the Table of Diversity Weekly is here and it's all about Black History Month! I'm super excited for this year's theme and curated 15 different resources (so far!) that help illustrate the theme.

Are you a Table of Diversity Catalyst (Paid Subscriber)? If so, you get access to all 15 resources, 3 exercises, and any future resources we add to this edition!

Use the resources for your own DEI Journey or share the resources in your own Black History Month celebrations. Our goal is to support you!

Check out this edition of the Table of Diversity Weekly!

Also, learn the story behind this photo of me circa 2007!

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Today I shared an email answering the question 'who are we talking about when we say 'diversity'?'