Diversity Management, News and Updates
School board officials in the south-central Pennsylvania town of York have backed down on their original plan to ban all books about race, social justice and racial history from libraries in the school district. The Hill’s Joseph Choi reported that the “all-white Pennsylvania school board this week voted to rescind…
Justice has been served for a Georgia teenager whose violent high school attack was captured on video and has since gone viral on social media. According to reports, the culprit faces juvenile charges for attacking another student wearing an LGBTQ Pride flag after being egged on by peers with a…
When school board members in Newberg, Oregon, decided to ban all displays of LGBTQ Pride, Black Lives Matter and other signs with supposed “political” meaning, a couple living on a farm nearby decided it was up to them to stand up for and support the rights and identities of impacted…
In one of the worst ways imaginable to welcome in the new school year, thousands of students in a single Florida school district are now isolating or quarantining due to possible COVID-19 exposure, just days after schools opened in the state. Tim Fitzsimons of NBC News reported that “over 5,000…
Following a number of disturbing recent stories about school-age children getting expelled for their natural Black hairstyles, bullied by peers, or even having teachers step in and attempt to cut or “redo” their hair, legislators in Illinois have decided it was time to step in and end the madness. The…
Following more than a year of biased attacks and increased discrimination against Asian American individuals, groups on the state and national level are continuing to step up and look for new ways to end the violence while increasing inclusion, representation and awareness for the AAPI community. The latest effort? Illinois…
With her successful spelling of the word “murraya,” a type of tropical Asiatic and Australian tree, Zaila Avant-garde from Harvey, Louisana won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the event’s first-ever African American winner and the second Black winner in the competition’s 96-year history, after Jamaica’s Jody-Anne Maxwell won…
Texas lawmakers continue to astound with the number of racist, transphobic laws they are willing to try to write into law. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen Texas lawmakers draft legislation that would penalize parents who support and help their transgender children access gender-affirming care with jail time…
Despite the many hardships that graduating classes of 2021 all across the country have had to endure, finishing school in the midst of a pandemic, high school officials in at least two states couldn’t resist blemishing what should be a moment of celebration with some tired, racist antics — including…
In a twist that’s appropriate for a long-running star of reality TV, transgender activist and Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Caitlyn Jenner is being sharply criticized both on social media and in the press for a comment she made attacking trans athletes — a group that she is perhaps ironically the…
