Diversity Management, News and Updates
Two white University of Connecticut students were caught on video, yelling the N-word outside of on-campus apartments. After student-led protests calling out the issue of race at the predominantly white institution, the men have been arrested. Students protested the incident on campus Monday morning, saying the men’s behavior called attention…
Mark Allen Bartlett of Hollywood Beach, Fla., pulled a gun on several Black teens, repeatedly calling them the n-word, as they were taking part in a “Bikes Up Guns Down” event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Brickell. “Get the fk out of here fking stupid ners!” Bartlett shouts….
Jeffersontown police have released the names of both victims in Wednesday’s shooting: Maurice E. Stallard, 69, and Vicki Lee Jones, 67 were identified by the coroner’s office. Stallard was the father of Louisville’s Chief Racial Equity Officer, and Jones was a woman on her way from her home, just blocks…
After a report was released detailing racist incidents in the Haverford, Pa., school district and town, leadership in one of the most affluent regions in the country, with a predominantly white population, decided that diversity is not a priority. Maureen Reusche, the superintendent of the Haverford Township school district said…
Frederick Joseph, creator of the #BlackPantherChallenge, walked around New York City with a “Caucasians” T-shirt this week to experiment with white people’s hypocrisy. Joseph also intended to increase pressure on the NFL to change the Washington Redskins’ racist name as pre-season begins. “The word ‘Caucasian’ is not a derogatory term…
Netflix waited three months after two instances of the racial slur drop and an offended Black ERG before firing Communications Chief Jonathan Friedland. “We hoped this was an awful anomaly never to be repeated,” Reed Hastings, CEO, wrote in a statement as an explanation for the delay in the termination….
Symbols of Black Lives Matter and the “Black Panther” movie on Hubert Roberts’ truck made it a target for vandals on Juneteenth in Clio, Mich. The N-word was painted in white on one side, “Wite Pride” on the other side, swastikas spread around, tires slashed and red shoelaces hung from…
By Chris Hoenig An Ohio news anchor somehow managed to use a racial slur on-air without even knowing it was a word. Not just once, but twice. Or at least that’s what she said. Kristi Capel, a former Miss USA pageant winner and current morning-show anchor for Cleveland’s FOX 8…
By Chris Hoenig Photo by Shutterstock From Richie Incognito and the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal to Paula Deen’s lawsuit and very public descent, a number of news stories have recently brought the use and perception of the N-word into public debate. It’s been debated by readers of this website. Even…