Diversity Management, News and Updates
President Biden issued guidelines earlier this year telling employers and schools that illegal discrimination against LGBTQ individuals had no place in the country and wouldn’t be tolerated. Still, not everyone appears to believe those recommendations apply to them. The Advocate’s Trudy Ring has reported that in a new court filing,…
Lawmakers in California are taking a stand against other states it considers to be unfair, discriminatory and biased against LGBTQ citizens. California has compiled a list of U.S. states it is reluctant to do business with and has even compiled a list of places it refuses to pay state employees…
Nicole Harper was driving 84 miles per hour in a 70-mph zone last summer near Jacksonville, Arkansas when a police officer noticed her car breaking the law and decided to give her a ticket. What happened next, however, is yet another example of police officers overstepping their legal boundaries, using…
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state of Arkansas, state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and members of the Arkansas State Medical Board, arguing that a recently passed law limiting transition-related health care to minors in the state not only discriminates against transgender people but also violates…
March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Meanwhile, in a blatant show of hatred and disregard for transgender rights and freedoms, lawmakers in Arkansas have passed what the ACLU has described as the “single most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass through a state legislature.” Jo Yurcaba of NBC…
The attack on the legacy of Roe v. Wade continues. On Tuesday, March 9, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill into law that bans nearly all forms of abortions within the state. Andrew DeMillo of the Associated Press has reported that the Republican governor “had expressed reservations about the…
A grieving mother found herself in handcuffs and in the back of a police car after she was stopped by West Memphis police officers at a La Quinta Inn and Suites parking lot in Arkansas, according to Black News. On Nov. 17, surveillance video from the hotel and police dashcam…
Four Black teenagers were going door-to-door in Wynne, Ark., on August 7 to fundraise for their football team. But it all went horribly awry when they got to the door of Arkansas white woman Jerry Kelly, a white woman who proceeded to yell, curse, and force them to the ground…
White men can be allies to Black women, but not in this case. The viral video of Arkansas State Sen. Stephanie Flowers, a Democrat, telling her all-white Republican colleagues that their priorities don’t include the lives of Black children and Black men, has not changed a thing. During a…
Apparently, bullying doesn’t stop after grade school. At least that’s how the Christian conservatives see it. Evangelicals believe big businesses are bullying them into supporting what republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz refers to as “an aggressive gay marriage agenda.” He also called it “unfortunate that large companies today are…
