Diversity Management, News and Updates
Indiana University business and economics professor Eric Rasmusen has come under fire for posting tweets labeled as racist, sexist and homophobic. Last week, Lauren Robel, the university’s executive vice president and provost, condemned his beliefs in a statement but said based on the First Amendment, the university would not fire him….
Rakevion White, a 21-year-old Black Arizona State University (ASU) student, was subjected to racial targeting at his job as a server at the Breakfast Club in Phoenix, according to a BuzzFeed News article published Tuesday. After initially saying it wouldn’t terminate the employee responsible for targeting White, the Breakfast Club…
A memorial has been rededicated to Emmett Till just outside of Glendora, Miss. The new marker was dedicated to the slain 14-year-old Black teen from Chicago this past Saturday. His tragic and brutal murder jumpstarted the civil rights movement more than six decades ago. In 1955, Till was visiting family…
A Miami-Dade Police aide was placed on administrative duty after he was investigated for reportedly saying a Black female sergeant looked “like a monkey”, according to a report from the Miami Herald. Pablo Espinoza, who works as a public service aide for the Miami-Dade Police Department, allegedly made the racist…
Renee Greeley, a teacher at the Drexel Hill Middle School in Upper Darby, Penn., was caught on video in the midst of a racist rant after she got into a fender bender in the parking lot with a Black parent, Rasheed Noel. The incident occurred Oct. 10, and Noel posted…
The video of a woman, dubbed #KuKluxKaren, screaming racial slurs and threats against Black people at a CVS in Los Angeles this week has been viewed over 2 million times and shared over 20,000 times since it was first posted on Sept. 25. In the footage, the woman is seen…
Federal agent Bradford Devlin, a senior supervisor in the Seattle Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is facing a lawsuit filed by Cheryl Bishop alleging years of racist attacks and discrimination. Devlin has a Nazi tattoo on his arm from years working undercover with…
Earlier this month, a Boston tow truck driver named “Jeff” hurled racist insults at a Black customer as he serviced a man and his wife. The woman, NeNe Judge’Mayo, recorded the incident and shared it on her Facebook page as well as on Youtube, according to Bossip. The verbal altercation…
Alan Maloney, the racist wrestling referee who cut a young Black wrestler’s locs before a match, has been suspended from refereeing matches for two years. On Wednesday, the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJIAA) and The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) announced the “punishment” rendered upon Maloney via…
Choptank, a soon-to-open Baltimore restaurant came under fire for discrimination after a photo of their dress code posted outside their building went viral. They have since revised their dress code, which prohibited styles frequently worn by Black people. “Excessively baggy clothing,” pants worn low, shorts that hang below the knees,…