Diversity Management, News and Updates
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…
With a new NFL season set to kick off this Thursday, the debate over the national anthem is still a hot topic for the Republicans. Carla Maloney, secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, Penn., has resigned after posting on Facebook an offensive statement where she refers to NFL…
During a road rage incident, Adam Kraus, a white man from Fayetteville, Penn., threatened to lynch two Black people and called them racial slurs while holding a handgun out of his car window. Authorities have charged Kraus with a felony hate crime. The incident occurred the evening of June 30…
Chad Merrill was fatally shot in the chest by another white man after he defended his friend, a Black man, Jerrell Douglas, who was being called the N-word and other racial slurs. At the Red Rose Restaurant and Lounge in Hellam Township, Penn., early Saturday morning, James Saylor, age 24,…