Diversity Management, News and Updates
In not necessarily surprising but still disturbing news, a new study from the University of Virginia reveals that locations with a greater number of Confederate monuments tended to have a more extensive history of public lynchings of Black men and women. Kynala Phillips of NBC News reported that the study,…
A noose found in a white lieutenant’s locker in a Hattiesburg, Miss., fire department has caused a rift between Black and white firefighters and has resulted in the resignation of the station’s lieutenant. According to the Associated Press, Shelton Russell, a 22-year veteran with the fire department, left his position…
For every woman of color who watched the hearing today, or has followed any of the drama up to this point, our backs are heavy. We sit here and watch accommodations made for Christine Blasey Ford, who bravely went up before a predominantly white and male Senate Judiciary Committee to…
A South Carolina man has been arrested after he attempted to solicit a white supremacist group to murder his Black neighbor and have him hanged from a tree. The disturbing request represents a modern-day attempt at lynching. Brandon Cory Lecroy, 25, reached out to a white supremacist organization to enlist…
