Diversity Management, News and Updates
Jay Anderson Jr. was asleep in a parked car in 2016 when police officer Joseph Mensah approached to ask him what he was doing. Anderson, who was intoxicated, was slow to reply and struggled to follow the officer’s orders as he was waking up. Instead of waiting for backup to…
Protests continue across the nation’s capital in an effort to rein in racist anti-voter legislation taking place in states such as Texas, Florida, and Georgia. And now, those efforts have progressed to the level where elected officials are getting arrested for supporting every American citizen’s right to fairly and legally…
The Sunshine State is a little bit safer today after more than a dozen members of a local white supremacist gang have been indicted for a variety of charges. Tom Winter of NBC News has reported that “16 members of a Florida-based white supremacist group — who went by names…
A mass shooting may have been averted in California after police arrested a highly armed man who had intentions of “wiping out” Black, Hispanic and Jewish populations. CNN’s Cheri Mossburg reported that “a California man is in custody after police found a cache of weapons, ammunition and racist writings in…
The County Sheriff in Pasquotank, North Carolina has been hit with a $30-million civil rights lawsuit following the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. — the father of seven — earlier this year. Joe Jurado of The Root reported that “Brown, 42, died on April 21 when his BMW was…
Matt Martel, a 29-year-old man from Villa Rica, Georgia, has been arrested and charged with a number of offenses for attempting to beat his Black neighbor’s 15-year-old son with a belt because he didn’t like the language the teenager was using. Zack Linly of The Root reported that Maliyk Sim…
Cuba has entered its third day of intense civil turmoil following anti-government protests erupting across the country on Sunday, July 11. CNN’s Patrick Oppmann and Al Goodman have reported that more than 100 individuals, including a number of reporters and civic leaders, have been arrested or are now missing. According…
Virginia resident Monica Cromartie was simply going about her day on Feb. 12, 2015, when Petersburg Police Officer Brian Lee Billings noticed she was speeding and decided to pull her over to give her a ticket. What followed was a textbook example of a white police officer using excessive force…
The battle for justice for Breonna Taylor, the young Black woman killed during a no-knock raid on her apartment in Louisville in 2020, continues. In the latest twist in the case, Kiara Brantley-Jones and Sabina Ghebremedhin of ABC News have reported that an attorney representing the family of Breonna Taylor…
Just weeks after being awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize for documenting the murder of George Floyd, a recording that was seen around the world and helped to reignite a new wave of the Civil Rights Movement in America, Darnella Frazier has suffered another terrible blow at the hands of the…
