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Shaquille O'Neal Co-Founds Agency for Diversity
One of business' biggest champions of diversity and former NBA player, Shaquille O'Neal, is taking on his latest venture with Majority, an ad agency that O'Neal wants to use to diversify the world of advertising. Recently becoming a co-founder and investor in the agency, O'Neal will be working with the agency to change the standards of representation. Most agencies still struggle to meet a 25% diversity target, according to O'Neal, We want to flip that diversity ratio to turn the minority into the majority. To achieve this goal, Chief Executive, Omid Farhang plans to hire individuals that represent communities of various races, genders and sexualities. Diversity is a competitive advantage, Farhang said, Diversity leads to different kinds of ideas that create different types of cultural discussions.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Juneteenth Signed into Law as Federal Holiday
History was made Thursday, June 17, 2021 when President Joe Biden formally signed legislation recognizing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal U.S. holiday commemorating the date that the last slaves were notified of their freedom in Galveston, Texas in 1865. It is the first new federal holiday since the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. The legislation went into effect immediately, causing ascrambleamongstcertainfederalandmanystateicestobeprepared to close Friday, the day after the signing was complete, as Juneteenth fell on that Saturday. I have to say to you, Ive only been president for several months, but I think this will go down, for me, as one of the greatest honors I will have as president, Biden said.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris and Opal Lee (2nd L), the activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, watch as US President Joe Biden holds the signed Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, June 17, 2021.
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