Diversity Management, News and Updates
With the backdrop of nationwide protests over police shootings last week and the tragedy in Dallas, comments over the weekend ranged from President Barack Obama saying we are not in a race war to Bill O’Reilly calling Black Lives Matter a “hate America” group. Hundreds of Protesters Arrested in Demonstrations…
UPDATE: 1 p.m. ET July 6, 2016 The Baton Rouge Police Department has identified the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling as Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II. Both officers, who work in the Uniform Patrol Division, were placed on administrative leave Tuesday morning. Lake has…
Louisiana on Thursday became the first state in the nation to include law enforcement officers as a protected class under hate-crime law, treating attacks on public safety workers the same as attacks motivated by race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. The “Blue Lives Matter” bill was signed into law…
Future Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards stated he wants to issue a protective law for LGBT employees when he takes office in January. It is currently legal to fire someone based on his or her sexual orientation in Louisiana (New Orleans and Shreveport have exceptions). Including Louisiana, it is currently…
Former Oklahoma City Officer Daniel Holtzclaw is being charged with 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, indecent exposure and forcible oral sodomy following his attacks on 13 Black women (one of these women was a teenager at the time of the alleged attack). His case is being tried in front…
By Sheryl Estrada Houses in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Shutterstock. In a column published on Thursday in the Chicago Tribune, editorial board member Kristen McQueary decided to use Hurricane Katrina as “a metaphor” for changes she thinks are needed in Chicago’s…
