Dear NAMIC Supporter:
Happy Holidays!
Let me begin by wishing you a happy new year marked by good health, happiness and prosperity. Today's Diversity Digest will be the final edition for 2016. On behalf of the NAMIC staff, our Board of Directors and Chapter Leaders, I want to extend our warmest regards and appreciation for your invaluable support.
In 2016, NAMIC's membership grew to over 3,000 members. In the coming year, we look forward to continue serving and engaging with our members and supporters while working to advance our shared mission of increasing multi-ethnic diversity and inclusion. As always, should you have questions, concerns or ideas that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to contact me. I can be reached at the NAMIC headquarters by telephone at 212-594-5985 or via email at
[email protected].
Eglon E. Simons
President and CEO, NAMIC
NAMIC Holiday Membership Drive Prize Winners Announced!
- NAMIC-New York member, Tsunehiko Takeuchi, Vice President, Business Development & Distribution, NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc. | TV JAPAN Channel - Grand Prize Winner of American Express Gift Card valued at $1,000
- NAMIC-Southern California member, Donald Shrope, Digital Marketing Specialist, Walt Disney Studios - Second Prize Winner of Playstation 3: Harry Potter - 3D Movie Pack
- NAMIC-Chicago member, Valentina Zurawel, Administrative Assistant, Comcast - Third Prize Winner of Game of Thrones Gift Basket
Thanks to all who joined NAMIC or renewed as part of the Holiday Membership Drive. Also, appreciation is extended to the NAMIC Holiday Membership Drive prize sponsors, TV One and HBO.
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Diversity Digest Top News Picks from 2016
Four of sports' biggest stars used the opening moments of Wednesday night's ESPYS broadcast as a call to promote social change. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James took the stage together at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles and urged their fellow athletes to be active socially.
New York Times
Gwen Ifill, a groundbreaking journalist who covered the White House, Congress and national campaigns during three decades for The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC and, most prominently, PBS, died on Monday at a hospice in Washington. She was 61.
The group - two black women, a Latina and two white women - reflect the rich diversity that surrounds us here, a diversity that, too often, we are loath to acknowledge. The five women are a microcosm of America, a rainbow of skin colors and ethnicity that is unmistakably an American thing.
African-Americans are exuberant and reflective-optimistic about present-day advances in income, education, entrepreneurship and health care, and determined to forge a better future as influential leaders and catalysts of social awareness against discrimination and social injustice.
The long-standing digital divide in internet use between Latinos and whites is now at its narrowest point since 2009 as immigrant Latinos and Spanish-dominant Latinos make big strides in going online, according to newly released results from Pew Research Center's 2015 National Survey of Latinos. Meanwhile, broadband use among Latinos is little changed since 2010.
In this installment of our "Conversations on Race" series for Op-Docs, Asian-Americans talk about how stereotypes unfairly confine them - particularly the one that brands them a "model minority."
What is a surprise, and a problematic one at that, is that so few minority actors seem to be making the same amount of money as their white counterparts in data uncovered by Variety.
Los Angeles Times
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2016 Oscar nominees, only white actors and actresses were among the chosen few in the top four categories -- for the second year in a row -- resulting in the resurgence of the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite and a bevy of concerns about diversity in Hollywood. Here, we keep a running list of the latest in the conversation, and the Academy's recent response.
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