Diversity Management, News and Updates
Akbar Cook continues to exemplify leadership by example as the principal of West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. The beloved administrator launched “The Lights On” program four years ago. The program is an intentional effort to protect students in his community. On Friday nights from 6-11 p.m., Principal…
Vincent Serpico, a teacher who taught at Piscataway High School since 2009, heard music on a boom box in a boys’ bathroom. He deemed the lyrics “offensive” and ended up going off on special education students citing the song by yelling the the N-word and profanities. He has been fired….
A scandal touches Trenton, as the former chief of staff of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, Albert J. Alvarez, steps down from his $140,000-a-year job after being accused of sexual assault. Katie Brennan, age 31, chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing Mortgage and Finance Agency, gave a…
A sheriff in Bergen County, N.J., resigned on Friday after racist comments he made about Black people, and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, were released to the public. Following New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s inauguration on Jan. 16, Michael Saudino, who attended, can be heard in audio clips, released by WNYC…
Akbar Cook is the principal of West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey and he takes his job and responsibilities as an educator and administrator seriously. In a school where 81% of the students come from low-income homes, it isn’t difficult for a student to become another statistic when…
An employee at the Jenkinson’s Aquarium gift shop on the Jersey Shore, who told a group of young Black girls to leave, is now out of a job. Jenkinson’s Boardwalk management said in a press release issued on Tuesday, “as a result of this investigation, the gift shop employee has…
WKXW-FM hosts Dennis Malloy and Judi Franco have been suspended for 10 days on Thursday for calling the nation’s first Sikh attorney general “turban man.” The slur was used to describe New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal while the bigoted pair was on air on Wednesday. The offensive comment was…
Black Lives Matter protesters and a man’s loved ones are looking for answers after an unidentified female police officer shot an unarmed Black man in the abdomen on Saturday night.The mansurvived the shooting and was in critical condition over the weekend. According to the victim’s girlfriend, Tasha Wade, the officer…
Black and Hispanic minors in New Jersey are far more likely to be prosecuted as adults than those in other groups, according to anewanalysis of court records by WNYC. Further, far more Black and Hispanic youths are given adult sentences or, in some cases, sent to adult prisons. Over the…
A house in Camden, New Jersey, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once lived will be preserved as a historic landmark. The address, 753 Walnut Street, was listed on a police report by Dr. King in 1950, at which time he and his friends were refused service at a restaurant….
