Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a truly shocking display, a woman in Philadelphia was recently raped on a train filled with commuters — and nobody did anything to stop the attack. Claudia Lauer of the Associated Press reported that “a man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia…
School board officials in the south-central Pennsylvania town of York have backed down on their original plan to ban all books about race, social justice and racial history from libraries in the school district. The Hill’s Joseph Choi reported that the “all-white Pennsylvania school board this week voted to rescind…
In a fitting resolution to a story that shocked the nation last year as the United States was entering COVID-19 lockdown, a Pennsylvania woman who purposely coughed on food while yelling that she had the coronavirus has been sentenced to a minimum of at least one year in jail. The…
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jim Struzzi, R-Indiana, is trying to stir some momentum behind a bill, known as Cody’s Law, that, if it becomes law, would charge any individual who afflicts bodily harm to a person with a physical or intellectual disability with a second-degree felony. Currently in Pennsylvania, in order…
A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that young people who had experienced gun violence had increased risks of post-traumatic stress disorder, unemployment and substance abuse. The study, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Surgery, looked at 183 young adult patients with a median age…
Renee Greeley, a teacher at the Drexel Hill Middle School in Upper Darby, Penn., was caught on video in the midst of a racist rant after she got into a fender bender in the parking lot with a Black parent, Rasheed Noel. The incident occurred Oct. 10, and Noel posted…
Pennsylvania Senator Michael Folmer was allowed to resign on Wednesday after being accused by police of having child pornography on his phone. Investigators found child pornography on Folmer’s phone while executing a search warrant at his Lebanon, Pennsylvania home, according to CNN. Law enforcement started investigating him after a tip…
Contractors with white ancestry earned $311,000 two years ago — as a minority-owned company, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the St. Louis, Missouri mayor announced the contract the town made with a Native American-owned company to demolish an old shoe factory, the community welcomed it. The area was still…
The Bon Air Fire Company in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania will reopen after finally accepting the resignation of a volunteer firefighter found to be a member of an extremist group, the Proud Boys. Haverford Township shut down the Bon Air Fire Company last week when the company refused to cut ties…
Transgender students in the Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District are protected for now. They can continue to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear the case. The conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom represented a group of students in the casesaying…
