‘I’m trying not to cry!’ Britain’s Got Talent fans are left in awe as Diversity storm the stage with a raw Black Lives Matter-inspired performance By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 22:22 BST, 5 September 2020 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 5 September 2020 Britain’s Got Talent fans were moved to tears on Saturday night as … Read more
Jobs should be given on merit and not as part of hitting diversity quotas, says veteran broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald Sir Trevor McDonald has said that he favours people being given jobs on merit He also said he struggled with the fame of being such a prominent journalist He said when he joined ITN he … Read more
Junior soldiers risk punishment if they don’t repeat ‘mantras’ on diversity and inclusion in annual assessment forms Soldiers have been told to pledge what their main objective is for the next year Told to say it will be to contribute towards an ‘inclusive culture’ within regiment Intended to help troops of different ethnic, religious or … Read more
Diversity ‘underpins EVERY conversation at the BBC’ and is a ‘non-negotiable’ part of making programmes, head of comedy reveals BBC head of comedy Shane Allen says diversity is constantly discussed He says director of content Charlotte Moore keeps telling staff to factor it in Mr Allen said: ‘With Charlotte it’s non-negotiable, it’s a thing that … Read more
BBC staff will be given diversity lessons to stop ‘microaggessions’ in bid to make corporation more welcoming to black programme makers Piers Wenger has been in ‘discussion’ about how to remove ‘unconscious bias’ £250k-a-year Drama Commissioning Controller said it was now ‘ground zero’ Told Edinburgh TV Festival now is ‘the moment where we have to get it … Read more
Prison diversity officer, 51, ‘had inappropriate relationship with inmate and failed to report he had mobile phone behind bars’ Former HMP Wormwood Scrubs officer Pamela Belonwu, 51, is set to go on trial She is accused of having ‘inappropriate’ relationship with inmate Clifton Thomas Alleged relationship said to have taken place between January and March 2019 … Read more
Lewis Hamilton insists he would give up equalling Michael Schumacher’s record of seven titles in exchange for improving diversity in F1 – and he says he is ‘seeing people change already’ and ‘an awakening’ amid his strong fight against racism Lewis Hamilton has leding the fight against racial discrimination in Formula One The world champion … Read more
From Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adam’s strange Bachelorette season to the bungled announcement of Matt James as the Bachelor, the franchise has been a whirlwind recently. And alum Mike Johnson, 32, who appeared on Hannah Brown’s season 15 of the show, blasted the franchise over its diversity efforts in a new interview with Variety. Speaking … Read more
Bachelor In Paradise’s Mary Viturino calls out the lack of diversity on the Australian dating franchise… as fans petition for Niranga Amarasinghe to be the next Bachelor By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 16:58 BST, 30 July 2020 | Updated: 18:40 BST, 30 July 2020 Bachelor In Paradise‘s Mary Viturino has called out … Read more
An FDNY diversity official has said that it’s ‘most definitely’ acceptable to keep a white firefighter off a ceremonial color guard so the flag bearers could all be black, according to a new report. White firefighter Lt. Daniel McWilliams filed a lawsuit claiming racial bias after he was removed from a flag-bearing unit at a … Read more