Diversity Management, News and Updates
A mass shooting may have been averted in California after police arrested a highly armed man who had intentions of “wiping out” Black, Hispanic and Jewish populations. CNN’s Cheri Mossburg reported that “a California man is in custody after police found a cache of weapons, ammunition and racist writings in…
Matt Martel, a 29-year-old man from Villa Rica, Georgia, has been arrested and charged with a number of offenses for attempting to beat his Black neighbor’s 15-year-old son with a belt because he didn’t like the language the teenager was using. Zack Linly of The Root reported that Maliyk Sim…
During the summer of 2020, while much of the country had turned its attention to the murder of George Floyd and the emerging Black Lives Matter Movement, Daniel Slater of Jupiter, Florida, was plotting the murder of his ex-girlfriend — a crime he later hoped to blame on Black Lives…
The Canadian public is reeling after a tragic hate crime took place over the weekend, leaving virtually an entire family dead. The Associated Press has reported that on June 6, “a driver plowed a pickup truck into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other…
Diamond Robinson was minding her own business, walking up and down the sidewalk on the street she lives on in Eastpointe, Michigan, talking on her cellphone when a neighbor, who had recently moved into the neighborhood, approached her and told her she was talking too loudly. A few minutes later,…
Walmart has revealed that an unknown hacker took over control of at least part of its website on May 24 and used the illegally gained access to send out an unknown number of racist and disturbing emails containing the N-word. Nathaniel Meyersohn of CNN Business reported that “dozens of people…
The Argueta family — 19-year-old Joe, his father Luis, mother Florinda and uncle Margarito Alcantar — claimed they were tired of their house in a suburban enclave west of Houston being vandalized. So, they set up a plot to “take care” of the situation. But instead of dealing with the…
As a new wave of gun violence continues to impact the United States, with mass shootings seemingly occurring on a daily basis, a troubling new report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) brings race into the gun ownership debate. According to the firearm industry trade association’s report, despite the…
After making history as the first-ever Indigenous Cabinet official in U.S. history, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has announced plans to aid in an issue that has long plagued the country’s Indigenous population: the growing crisis of missing and murdered Native people — particularly women. Kiara Alfonseca of ABC News has…
Atatiana Jefferson was fatally shot in her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, by a police officer in October. Her father, Marquis A. Jefferson, died of a heart attack on Saturday, less than a month later. He was taken to Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas on Friday night, the…
