Diversity Management, News and Updates
By Sheryl Estrada Prairie View Councilman Jonathan Miller. UPDATE:Jan. 25, 2016 A grand jury has indicted Prairie View officer Michael Kelley after he used a stun gun on a City Council member Jonathan Miller. Following the incident, which occurred in October, Miller was charged with resisting arrest and interference with…
By Sheryl Estrada Photo by Shutterstock Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams denied the request of defense attorneys on Thursday morning to change the venue for thetrials of the six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Their fates will be determined in Baltimore. Lawyers for the officers…
By Sheryl Estrada (YouTube) We live in a world where an “educational” video game that depicts the 18th-century slave trade included a mini game, “Slave Tetris,” in which one had to stack Black slaves in a ship to win points, like Tetris the puzzle video game from the ’80s. Serious…
By Sheryl Estrada Photo by Shutterstock Saturday will mark 10 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the U.S. on Aug. 29, 2005. It is estimated1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods, and of that total, approximately 1,577 people in Louisiana perished. When the levees failed,…
By Sheryl Estrada In May, a plaque was installed where Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo. A small, predominantly black St. Louis suburb, Ferguson, Mo., has been at the heart of national debates on race and sparked civil unrest against police brutality following the killing of unarmed…
By Sheryl Estrada Clockwise from top left: Samuel DuBose, Kelly Brinson, Lorenzo Collins, Everette Howard Two University of Cincinnati police officers who verified former officer Ray Tensing’s accounts of the shooting death of Black motorist Samuel DuBose, Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd, were also involved in the death of Kelly…
By Sheryl Estrada University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing stopped Samuel DuBose, an unarmed Black man, off campus just after 6 p.m. on July 19 because his front license plate was missing. The encounter ended with DuBose being shot in the head. During a press conference on Wednesday afternoon,…
By Sheryl Estrada “Black Lives Matter” has been the theme of protests against the police-related deaths of Black males in many cities, including Ferguson, New York and now Baltimore, following the death of Freddie Gray. Alicia Garza, a 34-year-old community organizer and one of the co-founders of the Black Lives…
A recent Social Mobility Memo of The Brookings Institution indicates a large percentage of Black women with college degrees remain unmarried because they seek to only wed a Black, educated man. “Single black female BA seeks educated husband: Race, assortative mating and inequality,” published April 9, offers that the current…
