Diversity Management, News and Updates
By Sheryl Estrada Brian D. Agnew, Ph.D. It’s not surprising that in his spare time, Brian D. Agnew, Ph.D. is a volunteer firefighter lieutenant in Piscataway, N.J., since in his professional career he works to impact thousands of lives each day. Agnew, 34, is the senior vice president for development…
By Sheryl Estrada An educational video, which has been shown thousands of times nationally, has outraged some parents in Virginia for perpetuating “white guilt.” The video has been banned by the Henrico County school board. During the first-ever Black History Month program at Glen Allen High School last week, Professor…
Frederick Douglass (1818 1895), an influential figure in American history, escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist, formative writer, stirring orator, statesman and photography theorist. Douglass experienced the discovery of photography in 1839 and followed its development throughout the century. A visionary, he saw photography as a valuable form of…
UPDATED: Feb. 11, 2016 at 1:35 p.m. EST The dashboard cam footage was made publicon Thursdayconfirming that Perry was speeding and shows the male officer explaining to her standard procedures. Though the pat down cannot be seen in the video, audio of the male officer and Perry can be heard….
By Sheryl Estrada Lt. Gen. Nadja West was formally promoted to three-star general in the United States Army on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Photos courtesy of Office of the Surgeon General/U.S. Army Medical Command. Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West is a trailblazer in the U.S. Army health care system. West, the…
By Sheryl Estrada DeRay Mckesson during an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Minutes before the deadline to file for Baltimore mayoral candidacy lastWednesdaynight, popular Black rights activist DeRay Mckessonjumped into the race. Mckesson, 30, became the 13th and final candidate for the Democratic nomination in the April 26…
Boston Latin School students Maggie Noel, 17, and Kylie Webster-Cazeau, 18,have leveraged social media to bring attention to what they describe as ahostile racial environment forBlack studentsat theprestigious exam school. On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the high school seniors, who serve as leaders of the student organization…
By Sheryl Estrada Six girls at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix thought it would be a good idea on Friday to take a group photo with “N-I-*-*-E-R” spelled out in individual gold letters across their Black shirts and post it to social media. What began Friday with hundreds of…
By Sheryl Estrada Due to new guidelines of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), by the start of the Summer Olympics this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, restrictions for transgender athletes in regards to their ability to compete willbe removed. Female-to-male transgender athletes are eligible to compete in the men’s…
By Sheryl Estrada An illustration from “A Birthday Cake for George Washington.” Scholastic Publishing is stopping the distribution of a controversial children’s book about George Washington’s enslaved cook, Hercules, and his daughter, Delia, after being highly criticized for illustrating slavery as joyful. “A Birthday Cake for George Washington,” released on…
