Ford Library Honors Juneteenth
In this blog post, Ford Library honors the Juneteenth holiday by sharing some selected e-book acquisitions and articles from our online collections and subscribed resources that focus on related timely and important topics.
Ford Library remains committed to pursuing a strong collection of resources that concentrate on the interrelationship of business with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The titles below are only a sample of our newly added holdings, and we encourage our Fuqua faculty, staff, and students to send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.
E-Books
- Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
- Organizational Justice and Organizational Change : Managing by Love
- ‘Counting Black and White Beans’ : Critical Race Theory in Accounting
- The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
– also available as an audiobook - Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
– also available as an audiobook - The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
– also available as an audiobook
Articles
All of the linked articles below require a WSJ.com account which you can create here. Ford Library and Goodson Law Library have co-funded your access to personal accounts on WSJ.com.
- CFO Journal : Racially Diverse CFOs Are in High Demand, but Challenges Persist
– While minorities already in the executive ranks are seeing more opportunities, it can be difficult for those without C-suite experience to break in, recruiters and finance professionals say. - CEO Pay Increasingly Tied to Diversity Goal
– McDonald’s and AmEx are among the companies tying executive compensation to adding women and people of color to leadership ranks - Pittsburgh Is Losing Black Residents. One Entrepreneur Is Trying to Bring Them Back.
– Venture capitalist David Motley is on a mission to help Black professionals take advantage of city’s rebirth as a center for technology, healthcare and education. - Peaches Golding Is a Pioneering Representative of the Crown
– An African-American businesswoman who serves as an official of Queen Elizabeth knows ‘the power of visibility.’ - The Daughter of a Slave Who Did the Unthinkable: Build a Bank
– The first Black woman to run a U.S. bank, Maggie Lena Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on the first floor of St. Luke Hall on November 2, 1903, in Richmond, Va..
Suggested By Faculty
New Scholarly Journal – Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: an international journal
– Many thanks to Fuqua Prof. Angelica Leigh for her recommendation!
Thank you for reading! — please send suggestions for additional new acquisitions to library-requests@fuqua.duke.edu, attention: Julie Harris.
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