Jennifer Chayes | Inspiring through math and science

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Jennifer Chayes | Inspiring through math and science

Frederica Williams | Improving access to health care

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Frederica Williams | Improving access to health care

Carl Sciortino | Putting LGBT rights on equal footing

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Carl Sciortino | Putting LGBT rights on equal footing

Priti Rao | Bridging the gender gap in politics

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Priti Rao | Bridging the gender gap in politics

Hugh Coleman and Ed Walker | Giving back to the community

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Hugh Coleman and Ed Walker | Giving back to the community

Kelly Bates | Advocating for communities of color

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Kelly Bates | Advocating for communities of color

Rev. Eric Markman | Building a multicultural congregation

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Rev. Eric Markman | Building a multicultural congregation

Sarah Honigfeld | Uniting students of all abilities

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Sarah Honigfeld | Uniting students of all abilities

Robert F. Rivers | Bringing new voices to the boardroom

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Robert F. Rivers | Bringing new voices to the boardroom

J. Keith Motley | Forging a new model for campus inclusivity

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J. Keith Motley | Forging a new model for campus inclusivity

Michael Hyter | Developing an innovative diversity philosophy

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Michael Hyter | Developing an innovative diversity philosophy

Diversity champions

From fields as different as banking, education, politics, health care, and the clergy, these men and women are passionately committed to leveling the playing field for all in Massachusetts.

Diversity Boston | Wesley Morris

With a changing nation, why is TV still so white?
Girl Scout Andrea Davis of Raynham during an event at the Museum of Science.

Narrowing the gender gap in male-dominated industries
Mattapan Community Health Center medical assistant Lucy Dumas speaks with Yazmin Rodriguez, her son Jayden and mother Milady Diaz.

Diversity Boston

Will national health reform close ethnic and racial disparities?

Video

Diversity Boston | Roundtable

A status check on diversity in Boston

Four local leaders sit down together to share their memories of Boston’s turbulent past, views on its progress, and hopes for its future.

Left to right: Tenneh Sesay, Mussuba Samati, Shanae Saddler, Penda Seck, Shanique Lewis, Alexandra Zuluaga, Makiz Nasirahmad, Ieisha Sampson, and La’Neece Byrd.

Photos by Yoon S. Byun and Essdras M. Suarez/Globe Staff

Diversity Boston

Teen perspectives on race and ethnicity

Young writers give their thoughts on whether divisions still exist based on skin color or ethnicity and whether discrimination is a factor in their lives.

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/12/06/BostonGlobe.com/Business/Images/50932233-1731--90x90.jpg How the body politic has changed in 30 years

A lot has changed since 1985, when President Ronald Reagan was in the White House.

Maybe the real measure of change in the entertainment industry is not whether a black woman this successful continues to succeed but whether she’s permitted to fail.

Wesley Morris,  on the demographics of TV

Diversity Boston - Summer 2012

Shalise Manza Young

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The NFL and me

Shalise Manza Young, who is entering her seventh season as Patriots beat reporter, gives a different perspective on the game.

Classes are taught largely in Spanish at the Amigos School in Cambridge. The popularity of so-called immersion schools has risen in recent years, along with other methods of language instruction.

Passing down a language

While it is a priceless cultural gift, passing down a language to children can also be an exhausting challenge for parents.

Diversity Boston | Winter 2011

Diversity Boston

Boy Scouts seek to expand their membership in the inner city

Since the start of the year, the Boston Minuteman Council, a division of Boy Scouts of America, has been pressing to curb the race divide that marks its membership.

Point of View

Will post-Millennials care about race?

The post-Millennial generation — children 17 and younger — has the chance live in a time when skin color just won’t be important anymore, writes James H. Burnett III.