Even though there are many states that have laws that prevent employers from firing employees for being gay, many LGBT individuals still do not feel comfortable being completely out at work.

A Houston school system police officer was fired this week for creating and distributing a so called "Ghetto Handbook" to fellow officers at a department meeting.

There has long been the perception that when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and their families, they are mostly affluent white individuals.

When Bobby Jindal takes office as Louisiana’s first non-white governor since reconstruction, he will have overcome a political barrier that once seemed impossible to break down. You see, Mr. Jindal is not White, as nearly all of Louisiana’s governors have been, nor is he Black or Hispanic.

Some organizations (including the US government) keep records on the race and ethnicity of their employees as they take note of the level of diversity in their workplaces.

Women, once effectively shunned from the universe of manned spaceflight, made a giant leap on Tuesday with the historic launch of the space shuttle Discovery.

People with disabilities represent the largest American minority group, yet they still suffer an astonishingly high rate of unemployment (65 percent).

Despite this seemingly endless housing slump, Black buyers in Maryland continued to buy homes in 2006. In fact, Black homebuyers took out slightly more loans for home purchases in 2006 than they did in 2005.

I received an interesting email this week from someone who argued that diversity is more divisive than it is uniting.

In today’s diverse workplace, more and more employees are seeking to bring their "whole selves" into the workplace. No one really wants to be identified just by their work and nothing else— each person has a given individuality that they want to bring to the workplace.