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• A great moment in the history of race relations

  Our company is celebrating "Diversity Week" this week with a host of activities and educational encounters. Today, one of our youn guys, Dan Baum, wrote the following note to all our staff. It's terrific and I wanted to share it with you: "Hi everybody, Today, while Angela, Alexi, Denise, Chris and John go visit the new Greensboro Museum, I want to remind you all to sign up for the pot luck on Friday and share with you the story of the South’s first integrated college basketball game, known now as the “Secret Game.” North Carolina is college basketball country, so it’s fitting that the South’s first integrated game would take place here. In 1944, the NCCU basketball team made... Posted Feb 03 2010, 01:18 PM by KTrapani with | with no comments Filed under: corporate social responsibility, human rights, values, racism, civil rights, social justice, race relations

• Ted Kennedy

  As you now know, Senator Edward M. Kennedy has died. As is appropriate, much is now being said of the long life of public service Ted Kennedy led, (as one example, I’ve included below the email sent by the President yesterday about his feelings for Senator Kennedy.) Fortunately, much is also being made of his unique ability to collaborate with legislators of both parties to move ahead an agenda of social justice. Over the years, he co-sponsored bills with, among others, Bob Dole, John McCain and he worked closely with President George W. Bush to develop the “No Child Left Behind” education initiative. We can only imagine that the current debate on health care access would be more civil and more... Posted Aug 27 2009, 10:17 AM by KTrapani with | with no comments Filed under: ted kennedy, social justice