How do Tulsa business leaders increase diversity throughout their employee ranks? That was the question at the center of the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s annual state of inclusion event Thursday.
It came two weeks after the city released its equality indicator report, which tracks how the city is closing disparities between different racial, economic and geographic groups. Tulsa boasted its highest score since the report’s inception, but the unemployment rate for Black Tulsans is nearly double that of white residents.
Tawanna A. Black, founder of the Minnesota-based leadership group Center for Economic Inclusion, put it bluntly…