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A director at LEADERSHIP Media Group, Mr Abraham Nda-Isaiah, has urged Africans to embrace cultural diversity, mutual respect, and unity as tools to strengthen relationships and overcome divisions across the continent.

The participants at a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum debate last week on “diversity” and “pluralism” in higher education were clearly suitably matched.

Kevin Roberts is president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank. His group published Project 2025, a 900-page policy document that has heavily influenced President Trump’s second-term agenda and pushed for the end of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

A new Statistics Canada report says Canada is becoming less accepting of gender diversity.

In 2025, 77 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men surveyed said they agreed or strongly agreed that people should be free to express their gender however they choose.

That’s a drop from 2018, when 85 per cent of women and 78 per cent of men agreed.

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Starbucks (SBUX.O), opens new tab agreed on Thursday to settle a discrimination lawsuit by the state of Florida, pledging not to ​adopt race- or sex-based quotas or preferences in hiring, ‌promotion and pay decisions.

Starbucks and Florida's Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier jointly announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the state last ​December.