Diversity Management, News and Updates
The conservative anti-LGBTQ hate organization known as One Million Moms is at it again, this time protesting a TV commercial from the bedding company Avocado Green Mattress, which features a number of couples relaxing on their mattresses, including what the group considers an “offensive” lesbian couple. The Advocate’s Trudy Ring…
Holding true to threats he has made in the past, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has officially signed into Texas state law a rule that would restrict transgender students from participating in high school sports consistent with their gender identity. ESPN’s Katie Barnes reported that following Abbott’s action, Texas has become…
We’ve known anti-Asian sentiment increased dramatically in the U.S. since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but new government data quantifies just how shockingly severe that jump has been. Based on recently released FBI data, Sakshi Venkatraman of NBC News reported that “anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73% in…
An Iowa Democrat has been threatened with violence simply for writing an opinion piece critical of the former president. Brianne Pfannenstiel of the Des Moines Register has reported that “Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of…
Just days after Dr. Rachel Levine made LGBTQ history by becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer to earn a position in one of the nation’s eight uniformed services, a conservative lawmaker has taken to social media to make anti-trans remarks concerning her appointment. Ben Kesslen of NBC News reported…
The fight against the concept of critical race theory and the “danger” it supposedly poses to American schools continues, this time with a new ACLU lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma. CNN’s Madeline Holcombe has reported that “a group of students and educators have filed a complaint challenging an Oklahoma…
In the latest flagrant display of white police officers using excessive force on Black men during an arrest, an Indianapolis police sergeant has been charged with kicking an emotionally disturbed and handcuffed man in the head — and the whole event was captured in his body camera footage. CNN’s Amir…
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has already signed some of the most outrageous and offensive anti-inclusion laws in existence over the past year, from approving a ban on discussions of race and racism in schools to restricting medical treatment for transgender children to endorsing a law allowing social workers to…
A Black paraplegic man in Dayton, Ohio, was violently pulled from his car by police, even after he repeatedly told the officers who pulled him over that he could not walk. The entire incident was captured in incredibly graphic and hard-to-watch bodycam footage that has since been released to the…
Yesterday we told you about the disturbing news involving NFL coach Jon Gruden and the racist emails he sent a decade ago. And now, following the discovery of even more racist, sexist, and homophobic messages, the pro football veteran has been forced to resign from his position as head coach…
