Diversity

The Idaho State Board of Education is taking steps to ban four-year colleges and universities from requiring applicants submit a diversity statement as a condition of being hired.

Our region has some of the world's most famous ski resorts and there’s a push for more diversity on their slopes. Ski Utah has a program addressing an imbalance that shows just around 10% of the population on the mountains to be non-white.

One Idaho company is creating unique toys with the goal of spreading a very important message, which that “what makes us different makes all the difference in the world.”

University of Idaho president Scott Green made an emotional plea to lawmakers for an additional million dollars to help recover costs incurred by the school in response to the murder of four students in November and fielded questions about the school's DEI budget.

Odds are, you’ve driven by it a hundred times – a modest one bedroom, one bathroom house in Boise’s River Street neighborhood. Built in sandstone about the same time as the Idaho Statehouse (built of the same material), most people called 617 Ash Street “Erma’s place, " or the "Hayman house.”

After two years away the World Village Festival is back!

A new analysis on diversity in state supreme courts shows that many do not have a single justice identifying as a person of color. That’s the case in most of the Mountain West.

Ignoring Black and brown communities impedes durable climate policy, BIPOC leaders tell federal lawmakers.

The 2020 census showed a 5% decrease in the number of white people living in the Gem State — but is Idaho becoming more inclusive as it diversifies?

As the pandemic held the planet in its grip, there was deep concern for education, travel and government … yet there was minimal conversation about how COVID-19 had upended the literary world.