Why Corporate Leadership Remains Overwhelmingly White

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 29, 2016

Journalist Ellen McGirt and Richard Gray, director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, discuss her article, “Leading While Black: Why Race and Culture Matter in the C-Suite” published in the February issue of Fortune magazine. McGirt examines what factors contribute to the lack of racial diversity in corporate America and why black men and women make up less than 5% of the executives in the Fortune 100. 

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