Foley & Lardner hosted firmwide virtual program featuring Michelle Silverthorn in honor of Black History Month 2023. Silverthorn laid out some reasons why it’s hard to talk about race and why we must talk about race.
Diversity and inclusion have completely replaced the Gospel as the raison d'être of many protestant denominations, and that ideology threatens to infect Catholicism as well.
As the fallout from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah last month continues, news outlets have beenreporting that the royal family is considering bringing on a diversity chief. You have to imagine Henry VIII never dealt with this sort of thing (as interesting as
that would have been), so there’s virtually no precedent for what a diversity program inside the palace might actually look like. Are we talking about Queen Elizabeth clicking through an e-learning module on an iPad? Prince Charles doing role-playing exercises?
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If the reports are true and the palace really is hiring a diversity czar, that person will face quite a challenge. Where would the work even begin? Slate posed these questions to some diversity and inclusion experts. None of them had ever attempted to bring diversity to an institution associated with a literal colonial empire, but they were kind enough to share some thoughts regardless.