Our Latest Call to Action: Confronting Racial Inequality
August 06, 2020Not only are we as HR professionals managing the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are managing what some have called the “pandemic within a pandemic”. This is the racial and social injustice pandemic that has inundated our nation since the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. As an African American woman, these events have left me emotionally wounded… As a Human Resources professional these events have triggered a calling within to do more. Yet, there is the relentless question of “What can lil’ ole me in Jonesboro, Arkansas do?”
