Despite a 2009 executive order by Governor Jack Markell to increase the diversity of the state workforce a new report says that it has declined over the years.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that black state officials and administrators have declined from 21 percent six years ago to 20 percent.
A group of African American leaders including those from the NAACP of Delaware and the Interdenominational Ministers Action Council say they will organize an effort to confront discrimination in state government.
The Reverend Christopher Curry, a pastor with the Ezion Fair Baptist Church in Wilmington, told the News Journal that much of this is the result of a culture that exists inside state government.
