Just 6% of S&P 500 companies have a woman CEO, according to a new report assessing the country’s top public companies on measures of workplace equality as of this past March. That makes the 40 chief executives named Michael or James more common than the 31 women CEOs, found the …
Read More »Key Words: Knicks owner James Dolan on George Floyd silence — ‘We are not any more qualified than anyone else to offer our opinion on social matters.’
The New York Knicks, a basketball franchise with mostly black players in a city that’s about 25% African-American, has been one of only two NBA teams silent over the killing of George Floyd. A leaked email explains why, according to an ESPN report. “ “We at Madison Square Garden stand …
Read More »The Margin: ‘This…Is Why’ — LeBron James, Jamie Foxx react to George Floyd’s death with images of Colin Kaepernick kneeling
“Do you understand NOW!!??!!?? Or is it still blurred to you??” That was LeBron James, one of many people outraged by the death of a black man in Minneapolis police custody on Monday, after a video went viral showing a white officer kneeling on the man’s neck for several minutes …
Read More »Key Words: James Carville is ‘scared to death’ the Democratic presidential hopefuls won’t fulfill their ‘one moral imperative’
James Carville’s famed Clinton-era catch phrase “It’s the economy, stupid,” was meant to serve as a constant reminder to the 1992 presidential campaign he managed to center its appeal to voters on the premise that widespread economic dissatisfaction would be remedied under the leadership of Bill Clinton. Twenty-eight years later, …
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