Earlier this month, Charles Sheppard, the St. Clair, Michigan County Human Resources Director, received a disturbing letter. The letter was addressed to Sheppard, who is Black, and while it contained no threats, it spoke in detail about black men and "the crimes they’ve committed."

According the nation’s first multilingual poll of Asian Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics, the predominantly immigrant populations of Hispanics and Asians in the United States are far more optimistic about their lives than are African Americans.

By 2010, middle-aged and older workers are expected to outnumber their younger colleagues in the US workforce. As a result, the physical and emotional well being of older workers has become a growing concern for U.S. employers.

Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and affirmative action laws were passed, Black, Hispanic, Female, Asian American, LGBT, Disabled, and other diversity employees, have not only found entrance in the workplace to be easier, but more opportunities for upward mobility within their companies have also presented themselves to diversity employees.

It’s no secret that women and men have different ways or negotiating. But these differences can be a problem when they cause women to make mistakes that cost them certain fruits of their negotiations.

Older workers face many challenges and obstacles when they are searching for a new job, but it is important that older workers do their best to avoid building personal barriers to their own success in a job search.

Mental health issues such as depression have been slowly but steadily rising, so much so that many businesses are actively trying to find ways to fight against workplace depression. But workplace depression does not affect all employees equally— it affects Black women at a disproportionate rate.

Pregnant women and new mothers face different challenges than single women, men (in general), and even working mothers face in the workplace.

A diversity consultant out of Oregon recently delivered what may seem to some as an outrageous proposal: that white men should be involved in workplace diversity decisions.

Earlier this week, Stan O'Neal, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of titan investment bank Merrill Lynch resigned. O'Neal, a graduate of Harvard Business School’s MBA class of 1978, was one of the only Black CEOs of a Wall Street investment firm.