Diversity Management, News and Updates
Social media isn’t just a cesspool of hate and bigotry for people of color or members of the LGBTQ community. It’s also filled with hateful content for people of varying religions — content that is posted and reshared and becomes close to impossible to remove. According to a new study…
Following news in June that conservative opinion outlet Fox News had been fined a record $1 million by the New York City Commission on Human Rights for repeated worksite sexual harassment of female employees and rampant job retaliation, the cable station is now embroiled in another workplace controversy. The Associated…
Last month, we reported on Rep. Joyce Beatty, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, being arrested during a peaceful protest for voting rights reform. A few days later, Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia was arrested in a similar protest. And now, less than two weeks after that, a third Black…
In a disturbing new trend nobody wanted to see coming, public health officials in Florida revealed that hospitals in the state broke the record for new COVID-19 hospitalizations on Sunday, Aug. 1, with more men and women hospitalized for the illness now than at the height of the pandemic in…
For any Black man or woman who has ever been pulled over for speeding or a traffic infraction, it’s not just your imagination that police officers are more condescending, aggressive and less respectful. New research from the American Psychological Association confirms that the average police officer speaks to Black drivers…
Jay Anderson Jr. was asleep in a parked car in 2016 when police officer Joseph Mensah approached to ask him what he was doing. Anderson, who was intoxicated, was slow to reply and struggled to follow the officer’s orders as he was waking up. Instead of waiting for backup to…
While the United States is baking from this summer’s unprecedented heatwave, new research from the University of California, San Diego has revealed a disparity between how people of color and white Americans endure the record-breaking temperatures. According to a report from NPR’s Deepa Shivaram, “as record-high heat hammers much of…
Even with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) reveals that CEO salaries continue to soar while compensation for the people working for these individuals remains stagnant. Moira Ritter of CNN Business has reported that “the average S&P…
The County Sheriff in Pasquotank, North Carolina has been hit with a $30-million civil rights lawsuit following the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. — the father of seven — earlier this year. Joe Jurado of The Root reported that “Brown, 42, died on April 21 when his BMW was…
Cuba has entered its third day of intense civil turmoil following anti-government protests erupting across the country on Sunday, July 11. CNN’s Patrick Oppmann and Al Goodman have reported that more than 100 individuals, including a number of reporters and civic leaders, have been arrested or are now missing. According…
