This has been a challenging year for our country. Amidst the already unprecedented pandemic and stress of an election year, racial injustice and unrest culminating in protests and riots over the summer shined a spotlight on longtime disparities in our society.
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As citizens across the nation voice their frustration and anger in the wake of civil unrest, we have heard from Memphis Business Leaders who want to create safe spaces for meaningful dialogue inside their organizations. In response, the Greater Memphis Chamber has created a list of resources for employers to use to help engage with employees to hold productive conversations and create opportunities to help build an anti-racist workplace culture.
Below is a list of resources business leaders can use to navigate this work inside their businesses.
On Wednesday, June 5th, Sephora closed its stores nationwide to provide diversity training for all 16,000 of the company’s employees. The temporary closure and training protocol were implemented after singer SZA publicly shared an experience in which she reported being racial profiled during a trip to the company’s Calabasas, California store. The singer posted on social media that a Sephora employee called security on her to “make sure she wasn’t stealing” while she was shopping for cosmetics.
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Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on racial bias. She is a professor of psychology at Stanford and a recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “genius” grant. Dr. Eberhardt has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
It is almost axiomatic in the 21st Century that workplace diversity is not merely a good thing but that it is nearly a mandatory component of running a successful business. That said, what does “diversity” mean? For some employers, it’s ensuring that a workplace is composed of people from a variety of backgrounds. For others, it simply means having policies against jokes about race, gender or physical disability.
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