Diversity Management, News and Updates
The first four months of 2021 have been among the worst on record for transgender individuals. States like Texas are threatening parents of transgender children with jail for supporting their children’s medical needs. Arkansas has passed what the ACLU has called the “single most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass…
“Gay panic” or “trans panic” is a common legal defense in many trials for violent crimes and murders where the perpetrator claims they were driven into a violent rage and temporarily went “insane” after discovering the sexuality or gender identity of the person they attacked, thereby allowing the assailant to…
The governors of 25 states and one U.S. territory have come together in a bipartisan measure to sign a letter condemning the ongoing spike in anti-Asian hate and violence ravaging America. The letter from the elected officials was released on Friday, March 26, to coincide with the Stop AAPI Hate…
Anti-Asian violence isn’t the only problem COVID-19 has amplified over the last year. The pandemic has also led to a dramatic increase in food insecurity and financial hardships. Although COVID-19 has impacted people from all walks of life, the crisis affected low-income Asian Americans disproportionately, shutting down many businesses that…
Multiple congressmen “accidentally” called Missouri’s new representative Cori Bush “Breonna” during Capitol event. Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush said she was stunned and hurt on the evening of Nov. 16, after a number of different Republicans called her “Breonna” during a new member orientation at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Bush, who…
Graham Williamson, 38, was sentenced to three years in prison this past Tuesday after he burned a cross next to the home of a Black boy in Mississippi, according to a Newsweek. The cross-burning, which occurred in October 2017, was supposed to frighten residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood named…
Brandon Lecroy of Greenwood, S.C., was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to hiring someone to murder his Black neighbor. U.S. Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, who handed Lecroy his sentence, qualified the offense as a federal hate crime. Ten years is the maximum sentence for the…
Gregory Bush, the racist murderer of two Black shoppers at a Kentucky Kroger store last month, was indicted Thursday on federal hate crime charges. Bush, 51, was charged with six counts, including two counts of a hate crime, resulting in death, one count of a hate crime with attempt to…
Samuel Corbett, 37, chased a Black teenage girl while screaming: “Bunch of, you know, N-word, racial slurs, all you guys should die, if I had a switchblade on me I’d kill you right now,” according to witnesses in the Beaverton, Ore., incident. Corbett grabbed the girl’s backpack and tried to…
The number of hate groups in the United States reached near-historic highs in 2016, rising for the second straight year, with the amount of anti-Muslim hate groups tripling from 2015, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual Year in Hate report released Wednesday. Much of the increased hate,…