States across the country are enacting increasingly harsh penalties for undocumented immigrants and their employers. Which states have the harshest laws? Which states protect undocumented children? Here's a look at immigration legislation in most of the 50 states. How does your state measure up? (more)
Today's Features
Is Black Income Declining? Our Baloney Meter Checks It Out A study says blacks born into middle-class households following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s actually earn less than their segregation-era parents. Is it possible? That's what a new study is stating—but do they have it right? (more)
What Killed Kanye West's Mother? Today's Headlines (11/13): What Killed Kanye West's Mother? Undocumented Immigrants Not Getting Mortgagegs; Healthcare Changes Would Hurt People With Disabilities; BET Adds a Little 'Idol'; Are Racial Differences Real? Calif.'s 1st Black Congressman Dies (more)
This Week's Most Read Stories on DiversityInc!
Dick Parsons to Step Down, 2nd Black CEO to Resign in a Week! The number of black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies will fall to four as Dick Parsons announces his exit from Time Warner's CEO post. He's the second high-profile black CEO to step down in a week. What's going on? (more)
Why Are So Few CEOs People of Color and Women? The resignation of Merrill Lynch's CEO E. Stanley O'Neal and the impending exit of Time Warner's CEO Richard Parsons, both of whom are black, have people wondering why there are so few CEOs of color at the helm of Fortune 500 companies—and why there are so few women CEOs. (more)
No More 'Housewives' or 'Grey's Anatomy'? Striking Writers Almost All White Watch the lines of striking writers walking with picket signs in New York and Los Angeles and you will not see many faces of color, revealing Hollywood's need to diversify the people who create the television shows we watch. What's really going on behind the scenes? Watch the video on DiversityInc. (more)
