Diversity Management, News and Updates
Syracuse University has a new development in its latest string of racist incidents. On Sunday morning, the university suspended all social activities at fraternities after a group of students, including members of the fraternity Alpha Chi Rho, called a Black female student a racial slur on Saturday night. The altercation…
This time, problematic, right-wing Fox News darling but bane of everyone else’s existence, Tucker Carlson, messed up big. The host of “The Tucker Carlson Show” struck a nerve with advertisers after he alluded to that immigration making the U.S. “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.” A series of companies immediately…
The absence of diversity in the President Trump’s administration has been a subject of ongoing debate. In an interview on Thursday with “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show based in New York City, Angela Rye, an attorney, political commentator and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, implied that…
Only one candidate directly addressed the coalition of Black, Latino and white citizens who elected Barack Obama twice — Donald Trump. We are facing the choice between two flawed candidates, but one of them is a monster. Donald Trump exploited customers, contractors, business partners, wives and the man who was…
The New York Times on Wednesday published a report in which two women said Trump touched them inappropriately without their consent — despite Trump’s insistence during last Sunday’s second presidential debate that he had never engaged in the behavior he bragged about engaging in. According to the Times, Jessica Leeds…
A Republican candidate for Kentucky’s House of Representatives has expressed no remorse for a series of racially charged posts on his Facebook page including several likening the Obamas to monkeys. Dan Johnson, the man in question, recently said he is in fact the candidate who will “make Kentucky great again.”…
During Sunday’s presidential debate, Trump denied that his leaked comments from 2005 indicated sexual assault and insisted they were nothing more than “locker room talk.” “You called what you said ‘locker room banter,’” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who moderated the debate, said to Trump. “You described kissing women without their…
Republican nominee Trump on Monday suggested to a room full of veterans that soldiers who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not “strong” and “can’t handle it.” “When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times…
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released this week found that 38 percent of Trump supporters believe minorities have too much influence in society, while only9 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters feel that way. In fact, 67percent of Clinton supporters feelminorities have too little influence, something only 17 percent of Trump…
Trump’s request to visit a civil rights museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, was rejected after the campaign was allegedly rude to museum staffers and made special requests that the museum would not accommodate. The Trump campaign contacted the International Civil Rights Center and Museum over the weekend to schedule a…