Cleveland Business Mag Admits Diversity Problem

By Carla Murphy Apr 16, 2014

In a January story featuring 2014 predictions from 32 community leaders, Crain’s Cleveland Business profiled no African-Americans or Asian-Americans. There was one Latino. And 30 of the 32 leaders whose views were published were men. How do those erasures happen in a city where more than half of the population is black and one third of its businesses are owned by women?

Crain’s Cleveland with the help of concerned community members is apparently trying to figure that out.

Whites comprise about one third of Cleveland’s population, Latinos are at 10 percent and Asian-Americans, just under 2 percent. Asian-American business owners account for 3 percent of the city’s firms and African-Americans, roughly 25 percent.

(h/t Crain’s Cleveland)