Diversity Management, News and Updates
A report by ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News reveals criminals are being hired as police officers in rural Alaska villages with mainly Indigenous populations. Kyle Hopkins, the Anchorage Daily News reporter who broke the story with ProPublica, described the situation to NPR as part of a “two-tiered justice…
Maine is stepping up to be the first state to ban the use of Native American mascots, names and imagery in public schools. Using mascots and other caricatures of Native American symbols and imagery has long been seen as offensive to cultures that were largely destroyed by white settlers. The…
The white-led Aloha Poke Company of Chicago has sent via its white-led law firm, trademark infringement letters to Hawaiian businesses demanding cease and desist of using “Aloha” and “poke”— staples of Hawaiian culture — to market their Hawaiian restaurants. Social media users have expressed disgust with a #NoAlohaPokeCo campaign and…
