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…
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…
In a terrible showing of managerial abuse and racism, a police chief in a small northern Ohio town is accused of leaving a racist note on a Black officer’s coat as a “joke” — seemingly oblivious to the security camera filming the entire incident. Nicole Acevedo of NBC News has…
A county commission meeting in Sevier County, Tenn., took an ugly turn on Monday when County Commissioner Warren Hurst lost it on video and let loose a racist and bigoted rant. It began when the main resolution for the evening — a measure to make the county a so-called Second…
Two New Jersey 17-year-old boys have been arrested after reportedly calling a group of Black middle school girls the N-word and urinating on them at a Lawrence High School football game Oct. 18. Police say the bias incident — the way hate crimes are referred to in New Jersey law…
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren rejected Fox News’ invitation to a town hall on the network because of the station’s “hate-for-profit” model. One of Warren’s aides told CNN that Warren is not planning on appearing on Fox News at all. Warren tweeted on Tuesday morning: Here’s one place we…
Advertisers are fleeing Fox News Channel shows featuring Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro, after both hosts made racist and bigoted statements about a range of people, races and religions. SHEEX, a bedding company, is one of several advertisers who are completely boycotting Carlson’s primetime show, according to The Washington Post. SHEEX…
A group of teen boys and young Muslim men in multiple cities are cleaning up the nation’s parks and memorials because Trump’s government shutdown over his border wall has debilitated the National Park Service. “It’s just what we do,” 23-year-old Sarmad Bhatti told The Washington Post, while emptying trash cans…
We’ve never had a POTUS and FLOTUS like the Obama’s before, and we’ve never had a Trump before. Two very different presidencies, one wrought with bigotry, racism and rampant white supremacy, and scandal, the other full of hope, unity and service. Former FLOTUS Michelle Obama says we need to pay…
A man was caught on camera in a profanity-filled rant against a couple protesting in front of a Confederate monument in Orange, Texas. The Confederate Memorial of the Wind is a nearly completed memorial, where the Sons of Confederate Veterans group are planning to add 32 flags to represent Texas…
