Diversity Management, News and Updates
A former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger began her trial Sept. 23 for the 2018 killing of an unarmed Black man, Botham Jean, after she allegedly mistook his apartment for her own, believed he was a burglar and shot him. Guyger is white. She is claiming self-defense. A prosecutor opened…
A jury found Anwar Ghazali guilty of second-degree murder after he chased down 17-year old Dorian Harris, fatally shooting him in the street over a $2 beer. Ghazali is Yemeni, and Harris was Black. The murder took place on March 29, 2018, at Top Stop Shop in Memphis. Harris, who…
Last July, 47-year-old Michael Drejka got in a fight with Britany Jacobs, then 24, who was parked in a handicapped-accessible spot outside a grocery store. Her boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, who was only 28, walked outside after them with their five-year-old son and defended Jacobs from Drejka, who had become aggressive….
Protestors rallied outside of the Colorado Springs police headquarters Aug. 13 to protest the police shooting of 19-year-old De’Von Bailey. His family is calling for justice through an independent investigation of the incident. A white police officer shot the teen responding to a report of a robbery Aug. 3. Officers…
“It’s a testament to how we can be there for each other in these times of grief,” Ohio native and famous performer John Legend told a crowd at Blind Bob’s Bar on Sunday night in Dayton after singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Legend sang the song to the gathering of…
Chanting “gun reform now,” ″ El Paso strong” and “aquí estamos y no nos vamos” (Spanish for “here we are and we are not leaving”), over 100 protestors marched through El Paso, Tx. on Saturday after the racially-motivated mass shooting that look nearly two dozen lives last week. The protest…
Muskegon, Michigan police officer Charles Anderson is on administrative leave after a Black man was touring his home during an open house and found Ku Klux Klan memorabilia. Rob Mathis, an Army veteran and prospective homebuyer posted a photo on Facebook of a framed KKK “application for citizenship” hung on…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show Tuesday that white supremacy is a “hoax” and not a major concern in the U.S. He’s faced intense backlash, but seemingly not from his network or advertisers, who have remained largely silent on the incident. His comments came just 72 hours…
In the wake of the Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas mass shootings, President Trump visited the hospitals in both cities where injured survivors were receiving treatment. Despite Trump and his spokespeople declaring the success of the visits, none of the eight victims in the University Medical Center in El…
In order to combat the impact of the El Paso mass shooting in a Walmart over the weekend, the city opened a grief center on Tuesday. During the mass murder by a white racist, 22 people were killed, nearly all with Hispanic last names. Many others were wounded. The grief center…
