Diversity Management, News and Updates
A new hotel in Orlando, Florida, has a unique claim to fame as one of the first travel properties designed with a specific focus on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion among its guests. The Lake Nona Wave Hotel just opened in December 2021, but according to Kimberly Wilson of Essence,…
NYC Pride 2021 occurred months ago, but we are just now finding out the details of a suspected domestic terrorist attack that had been planned for the typically joyful day celebrating LGBTQ acceptance and identity. Aaron Katersky of ABC News reported that in a federal courtroom on Monday, Dec. 6,…
Just days shy of the fifth anniversary of the tragic Pulse nightclub shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, Congress has passed a measure to officially commemorate the site of the domestic terrorism attack against LGBTQ folks as a national memorial. Dan Avery of NBC News reported that the U.S. Senate passed…
Orlando Resource Officer Dennis Turner has been fired after outcry from his arrest of two six-year-olds, a boy and a girl, on the same day. The children were then charged with misdemeanor battery in separate incidents though the charges have since been dropped. Turner was initially suspended but was then…
A year ago, Orlando Police Officer Jonathan Mills was reassigned from the department’s elite tactical squad to patrol duty for making a rude, biased remark about a woman’s hair. He was also the subject of two very serious excessive force lawsuits settled in 2017 that cost the city $130,000. Mills received an oral reprimand…
Forty-nine people were killed when a man opened fire with an assault-style rifle in Pulse, an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12, 2016. Another 53 were injured. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in modern U.S. history. Forty-nine innocent people, doing nothing except…
Three Orlando police officers are on paid administrative leave pending the investigation of the shooting death of an emergency room patient who they say claimed to have a firearm. No weapon was found on the victim, who was a white male and approximately 35 years old, according to Orlando Police…
The Walt Disney Company is No. 36 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list From a toy-inspired land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios to a milestone year for Disney’s Animal Kingdom to exciting additions at Disney Springs to an encore year for an Epcot festival, there’s plenty in store for guests…
RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange, (a division of Wyndham Worldwide No. 24 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) announced an affiliation agreement with Encore Resort at Reunion to offer members a new vacation option in Orlando, Fla. The resort comprises meticulously kept individual homes and offers a…
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is investigating after a noose and several racist, threatening messages were sent to the office of a Black state prosecutor. The threats come after Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced her office would not pursue the death penalty in its cases — a…
