The battle to make the State Department more diverse

The US Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, removed a large banner for the Black Lives Matter movement and a rainbow flag that celebrates LGBTQ pride after a request from State Department leadership in June 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

The Black diplomat who was handed a set of keys in the State Department parking garage by a White colleague who seemed to assume he worked there, not in the offices above, and could fetch her car. The young Latina in…