Diversity Management, News and Updates
Despite Walmart’s ongoing commitment to diversity as an organization, employees at one store in Georgia have been accused of racially profiling one of their customers. Monique Beals of The Hill reported that “David Conners, a Clayton County corrections officer, was stopped and handcuffed by a Fayetteville police officer while he…
In a case combining mistaken identity, incredibly poor judgment and racial profiling, Las Vegas police are accused of “confusing” a 23-year-old Black man for a white man twice his age simply because they share a similar name. And now that wrongfully detained man is filing suit against the police department…
A residential neighborhood in Miami Beach, home to a large Jewish community, is under attack from an unknown racist bigot. Mychael Schnell of The Hill reported that “antisemitic fliers were left at hundreds of homes in Miami Beach overnight on Sunday, Jan. 23 [in] the latest incident against the Jewish…
After years of protests against its presence in front of New York’s American Museum of Natural History, a controversial statue of President Teddy Roosevelt on horseback surrounded by Native Americans has finally been taken down. The bronze sculpture, which included Roosevelt on horseback and Native American and Black figures on…
As the battle to protect voting rights continues in the nation’s capital — sadly with little success — veteran politician and minority leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, has come under fire for a statement he made that implied Black Americans were not “full” Americans. Bruce Schreiner of The…
As we enter the fourth week of 2022, hate crimes across the country are continuing at an alarming rate for people of all races and religions, including individuals of the Sikh faith. Based on FBI data from October 2021, hate crimes in the country are at their highest level…
In an ordeal no parent would want their child to experience, a 4-year-old girl in Rochester, New York, recently revealed to her mother that her daycare van driver had forgotten her, leaving her stranded alone in a freezing van for nine hours. Jasmine Alyce of the Atlanta Black Star reported,…
In a horrible example of rude, sexist and thoroughly discriminatory behavior, two radio announcers in Maine were fired for openly mocking members of a girl’s high school basketball team during a live broadcast. The Associated Press reported that “the comments were made by two broadcasters on the Houlton radio station…
The price of a college education continues to be a stumbling block to many across the country. According to the Education Data Initiative, an estimated 43.2 million individuals are currently paying off loans with an average value of more than $39,000. Of that group, Black students and college graduates are…
Fourteen-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta was laid to rest on Monday, Jan. 10, after being accidentally shot by police during part of a tragic retail store shoot-out. Christopher Weber of The Associated Press reported that Orellana-Peralta “was killed when a Los Angeles police officer fired at a suspect at a clothing store…
