Diversity Management, News and Updates
A new study from Rutgers University-Newark has found that police are a leading cause of death among young — especially Black — men in America today. The study, which compiled data on police-involved deaths in the U.S., estimated the risks of being killed in a law enforcement encounter by age,…
Famous television astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is under fire for a tweet he made about this past weekend’s mass shootings that many are condemning for being insensitive in the wake of these tragedies. On Aug. 4, he tweeted statistics of other major, preventable causes of death in the U.S., comparing…
2020 Presidential Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, misstated the locations of two tragic shootings as he extended his sympathy on Sunday. He made the remarks while fundraising near San Diego. Biden’s comments were made at businessman Mark Arabo’s home when he erroneously stated: “the tragic events in Houston today and also…
The jury at Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan found Jeffrey Craig Ziegler, age 53, guilty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. They deliberated less than three hours on Friday after closing arguments, where the prosecutor,…
The Waffle House shooter had his guns taken away and given back to him, and the question is whether or not that would’ve happened if Travis Reinking was Black. His father, who ultimately was given the guns back by the police, promised to keep the weapons secure and out of…
Results from a private autopsy released over the weekend revealed that Stephon Clark was struck with eight bullets, six of which went in his back. Seven of the bullets struck the backside of Clark’s body, said forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. According to Omalu, any of those seven bullets could…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a press briefing chalked up fatal police shootings of Black men to a local matter” and said the president does not have to comment on them. Reporter April Ryan asked Sanders about the Alton Sterling and Stephon Clark shootings. Sanders called it a terrible incident” but…
Conservatives on social media doctored a video of Parkland survivor and activist Emma Gonzlez tearing the U.S. Constitution in half. The actual image showed Gonzlez, 17, ripping apart a gun-range target. The original video was part of a Teen Vogue digital publication, for which Gonzlez wrote an op-ed. Phillip Picardi,…
The moments leading up to the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man were captured on video by a witness to the tragedy. Danny Ray Thomas, 34, was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Houston, Texas, with his pants around his ankles. According to a press release from…