Diversity Management, News and Updates
In 1951, a group of Black men who came to be known as the “Martinsville Seven” were tried by a white jury and sentenced to death for their supposed role in the gang rape of a 32-year-old white woman named Ruby Stroud Floyd. Seventy years later, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam…
In 2015, a then 21-year-old Dylann Roof opened fire during Bible study lessons in a Charleston, South Carolina church, senselessly murdering nine Black churchgoers. The victims included three reverends (one of whom was a former state Senator), a librarian and two senior citizens, including one woman who had worked within…
In one of the most disturbing hate crimes in recent memory, a white Iowa woman has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for using her vehicle to violently plow into two children in two separate incidents based purely on their race. Minyvonne Burke of NBC News reported that…
Although media coverage of anti-Asian attacks in America seems to have slowed over the last few months as the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has taken over the headlines, that doesn’t mean the violence has gone away. Despite Congress passing legislation to combat anti-Asian hate crimes, it has, unfortunately,…
Despite recent critically acclaimed and award-winning films like Minari and The Farewell, it appears Hollywood is still woefully slow in creating diverse, inclusive and non-stereotyped roles for its Asian American and Pacific Islander actors. A new study has found that the majority of roles given to Asian actors in the…
A Black real estate agent in Wyoming, Michigan experienced a case of racial profiling at its worst. Jacqueline Francis of NBC affiliate WOOD-TV has reported that realtor Eric Brown and his client Roy Thorne, who is also Black, “were put in handcuffs during a showing Sunday [August 1] after armed…
Infamous Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans automatically won reelection on Tuesday for the state’s 5th District. He has been in the job since 1991 and has faced allegations of racial bias. Evans, who is white, came into the national spotlight for his handling of Curtis Flowers, a Black man who…
Two New Jersey 17-year-old boys have been arrested after reportedly calling a group of Black middle school girls the N-word and urinating on them at a Lawrence High School football game Oct. 18. Police say the bias incident — the way hate crimes are referred to in New Jersey law…
A white teacher at Van Asselt Elementary School in Seattle called the police on a Black student in her 5th-grade class. The instructor is a 27-year old white woman, and the boy is 11-years old. The incident happened this past May. Related Story: Disgraced Racist Teacher from the Bronx is Suing…
Sgt. Waverly Woodson Jr., also known as “Woody,” was a 21-year-old medic in an all-Black brigade during World War II when he and other Black soldiers were the first to step on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. The young soldier had been injured by shrapnel that tore through his…
