Diversity Management, News and Updates
Over the long Independence Day holiday weekend, a memorial statue of MLK in Long Beach, California’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park was vandalized with spray paint, swastikas and other Nazi-related symbols. Local authorities are now investigating the incident as a hate crime. NPR’s Sharon Pruitt-Young reported that “the Long Beach…
In Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday night, another shooting left three men dead and nine people injured at what may have been a Halloween party at a private residence. All nine injured people were taken to hospitals nearby, including two men and seven women with ages between 20 and 49….
A cellphone video taken by a passenger on a commuter train in Long Beach, Calif., shows a white man in a suit dragging an unconscious, partially naked Black passenger out of the train car and onto the platform because he didn’t want to wait for the paramedics to respond. A…
Frederick Taft celebrated with 40 to 50 of his relatives during a family reunion at Pan American Park in Long Beach, Calif., not knowing that it would be the last time. Taft was shot and killed inside a restroom that afternoon. His relatives said a white man murdered him because…
