ESPN says they’ve been working on their diversity record for decades
Tonya Cornelius, vice president of development, inclusion and wellness at ESPN, says there are multiple programs in place to address this very issue
Rachel Nichols, a white host, made disparaging remarks directed at a fellow Black host,
Maria Taylor.
“I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world she covers football, she covers basketball. If you need to give her more things to do because you are feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity which, by the way, I know personally from the female side of it like, go for it. Just find it somewhere else. You are not going to find it from me or taking my thing away,” said Nichols, who was on the phone with another coworker. She didn’t realize that she was being recorded at the time.
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Teaching the history of inequality and injustice in America and having students âreally engage with the lived experience of people who arenât white, who arenât male, who arenât straightâ are essential, said Karine Schaeffer, Scarsdale High Schoolâs English department chair, describing the thinking behind the selection of texts and literature being taught by the SHS English department.
Schaeffer was one of several teachers and students who joined Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Edgar McIntosh during the virtual school board meeting Dec. 21 to present details of the districtâs ongoing efforts to build a more âculturally responsiveâ curriculum.