Diversity Management, News and Updates
By Sheryl Estrada President Obama speaks at the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia in July 2015. “There has been an awakening around the country to some problems in race relations and police-community relations that date back for decades,”President Obamasaid last week in an interview with NPR just days…
By Sheryl Estrada Demonstrators amongst Obama supporters in Oklahoma City. Demonstrations this week in Oklahoma and the racist insults made by the mayor of Airway Heights, a small city in Washington, illustrate the lack of respect President Barack Obama, as well as First Lady Michelle Obama, have received during two…
By Sheryl Estrada President Barack Obama sent the first tweet of the official Twitter account @POTUS on Monday, which simultaneously broke a Guinness World Record and elicited racist responses. According to White House Deputy Director of Online Engagement for the Office of Digital Strategy Alex Wall’s blog post, @POTUStweets will…
Michelle Obama spoke candidly about her experience as the first Black First Lady of the United States to Tuskegee University graduates onSaturday. During her commencement address at the Historically Black College and University in Alabama, Mrs. Obama explained how she eventually realized “the chatter, the name calling, the doubting” she…
UPDATE: March 13, 2015 at 11:07 a.m. EST Rodner Figueroa, former Univision host, has written an open letterapologizing to First Lady Michelle Obama. Our original story continues: March 12, 2015 By Sheryl Estrada Fashion critic Rodner Figueroa, a frequent contributor on Univision’s entertainment news show El Gordo y La Flaca,…
By Sheryl Estrada According to First Lady Michelle Obama, education in America should be viewed as a civil-rights issue. On Feb. 20, Mrs. Obama hosted “Celebrating Women of the Movement,” a Black History Month panel discussion in the East Room of the White House. “Like many of you, I believe…
In the wake of the well-publicized and, many believe, racially motivated deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice—unarmed Blacks killed by white police officers—President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama shared their own encounters with racism in an interview in the latest issue of People magazine. The story…
By Chris Hoenig As First Lady Michelle Obama ramps up her Reach Higher education initiative, Rutgers Future Scholars is one of the programs getting to demonstrate first-hand the success of inspiring young students to succeed. Rutgers Future Scholars is one of less than 20 programs invited to the National Summer…
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer and largest purveyor of groceries, is stepping into the fight against obesity and food security in a big way. Organizations that advocate for local businesses, like the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, say that Walmart’s two-year-old healthier-food program, endorsed by First Lady Michelle Obama, is a…
