Diversity Management, News and Updates
Fourteen-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta was laid to rest on Monday, Jan. 10, after being accidentally shot by police during part of a tragic retail store shoot-out. Christopher Weber of The Associated Press reported that Orellana-Peralta “was killed when a Los Angeles police officer fired at a suspect at a clothing store…
In a historic moment of representation for both Black women and the people of New York City as a whole, Long Island police official and Queens, New York native Keechant Sewell has been named by New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams as the city’s next police commissioner. She will become…
Two years after her son died tragically at the hands of police officers, a mom in Louisiana is still demanding answers and justice. Jim Mustian of the Associated Press reported that “Ronald Greene’s mother chastised Louisiana lawmakers on Monday, Dec. 13, for not acting quickly enough to hold state troopers…
The family of a transgender woman in Georgia who was sent to a men’s prison and then routinely taunted by guards until she took her own life will be receiving a $2.2-million wrongful-death settlement from the state’s prison system. Trudy Ring of The Advocate reported that the settlement, which is…
While the trials involving Ahmaud Arbery and Kyle Rittenhouse continue to take up the bulk of evening news coverage, there’s a bit of good news breaking in the case of another race-based murder that has received far less media attention. Heather Hollingsworth of the Associated Press reported that “a judge…
A Black North Carolina man has been freed after being wrongfully imprisoned behind bars for 24 years. Bryan Anderson of the Associated Press reported that on Friday, Nov. 12, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper pardoned Dontae Sharpe, “who spent 24 years behind bars for a murder he has long said…
Black Americans have a long history of being over-policed and charged with crimes at a disproportionately higher rate than whites — and nowhere in the United States does that appear truer than in the state of Wisconsin. Deon J. Hampton of NBC News has reported that “years of housing segregation…
In a police blunder of enormous proportions, U.S. Marshals in Bradenton, Florida, pulled their weapons on an unexpecting young mother after they got confused and attempted a raid on the wrong apartment. Fortunately, no one was physically hurt, and a recording of the ordeal has since gone viral on social…
While ride-sharing services remain one of the most popular ways to get around in large cities, the public is getting one of its first-ever looks at the prevalence of sexual assaults within the industry — and it isn’t pretty. CNN’s Sara Ashley O’Brien reported that “ride-hail company Lyft released its…
New research reveals that the American justice system continues to be a highly racist and discriminatory world, with Black men and women significantly more likely to be sentenced to time behind bars than whites. CNN’s Christina Carrega reported on a new study by The Sentencing Project published on Oct. 13.,…
