This week, black industry leaders representing destinations around the United States released an open letter to their colleagues and the world reflecting on systemic racism in the travel industry and beyond.

During yesterday’s Community Conversation, PCMA board members led a thoughtful discussion around the national Black Lives Matter movement and how the business events industry can address systemic racism and promote diversity and inclusivity.

There has been a lot of talk about why all-male panels are a problem, Ruchika Tulshyan, the founder and CEO of Candour, a diversity consulting company, wrote last fall. “But less attention has been paid to how too many events also lack racial diversity.”

The most obvious way to make your digital event more diverse and inclusive is in your speaker lineup. But there are other simple things to keep in mind as well.

Five thinkers, scholars, and advocates for racial justice who are leading the way toward change.

A University of Georgia grad student was motivated to launch a weeklong digital event for Black birders after a video altercation went viral.

Author and business professor Dolly Chugh on how thinking of ourselves as ‘good’ people can hold us back from growth, and why we need both light and heat in social movements.

Jason Dunn used the current historic moment of social unrest to spotlight how the economic fallout from COVID-19 has pushed off to the side the industry’s diversity efforts.

Cisco, Sony, and Electronic Arts are some of the companies that have decided to put digital conferences and product launches on hold to show support for the movement to fight racism.

The senseless murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis is a barbaric example of the continued injustice and discrimination that must stop. Now.

The pandemic may have made it feel like the world is upside down, but that doesn’t mean conferences should go backwards in terms of equity and inclusion.

Here are five characteristics that distinguish successful leadership conferences for women from other kinds of events.