Diversity Management, News and Updates
Days before what is arguably the biggest eating holiday of the year, hunger in the U.S. has surged to record numbers. Projections show 50 million people are facing food insecurity in 2020, and many will be waiting on long food-pantry lines to fill their tables for Thanksgiving dinner. According to…
Some of the challenges Indigenous Peoples face — like derogatory sports mascots and natural resource exploitation — have made the headlines lately, but many remain underreported. These problems are connected to a host of other crises that challenge Native communities, many due to ongoing racism and a desire to erase…
Richfield Public Schools in Minnesota has received more than $22,800 in donations as of Tuesday after a video surfaced of workers throwing away kids’ hot lunches if the students owed more than $15, according to CNN. CNN reported that hundreds of people have donated in order to raise the thousands…
A report by the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University (CCEAL) and the Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative revealed that Native American boys are suspended and expelled at higher rates than students from other demographics in both the Sacramento area and throughout the entire state…
A nonprofit called Springboard to Opportunities, is giving 20 Black single mothers a year of universal basic income, $1,000 a month – and it has helped support major improvements to their lives. The program is in Jackson, Mississippi. It originally helped low-income people write resumes and workforce development, but Aisha…
Newark, New Jersey — a city that is over 50% Black — has even more lead in its water than Flint, Michigan did at the height of its water crisis, according to the most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lead samples from June. Flint’s water quality is improving. The most…
The U.S. Census Bureau has been facing harsh criticism for its plans to try to accurately count people of color for the 2020 Census. The agency is planning internet and telephone questionnaires – which are pretty useless for people in rural areas without reliable communication infrastructure, such as tribal communities….
Forest Hills Elementary is an underfunded school, where bullying prevention is non-existent. Raniya Wright, a fifth-grader at Forest Hills Elementary School in Walterboro, S.C., died two days after getting into a fight with a another fifth-grade girl. Weeks before Raniya’s death, she kept asking her mom if she could stay home…
Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, said on Tuesday that she would stop prosecuting marijuana possession cases regardless of quantity or prior criminal record. Mosby also urged state legislators to support a bill allowing her to vacate almost 5,000 criminal convictions, including corrupt police cases. “For far too long,…
The opening experiment to universal basic income might be underway. The community of Stockton, Calif., is planning to hand out $500 a month to 100 citizens. This project is being funded by the cofounder of Silicon Valley giant Facebook, Chris Hughes, and his firm, the Economic Security Project. For a…