Diversity Management, News and Updates
Snap Inc. has released a report called “Citizen Snap” that contains its workforce demographics, and the findings reflect a diversity issue prevalent in much of the tech industry: In the U.S., where the majority of Snap’s employees work, 51% of employees are white, 33% are Asian, 6.8% are Latinx, and…
Channing Smith, a 16-year-old junior at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tenn., died by suicide on Sept. 22 after classmates outed him as LGBTQ on social media by sharing screenshots of intimate text messages he sent to another boy. The two classmates — the boy who received the…
On Monday, a Hillcrest High School student in Greenwood County, S.C., was filmed holding what appeared to be a rifle in her left hand and in her right hand a poster with a threatening message which targeted African-Americans written in large letters reading, “We hang ******* for free.” The post…
A Snapchat video went viral over the weekend showing male teenagers who attend Homewood-Flossmoor High School, in the Chicago metropolitan area, wearing blackface, shouting profanities while driving, and harassing a female cashier at a McDonald’s by making disparaging remarks about Black girls. One of the boy’s mothers tried to defend…
Four white University of Georgia Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members have been expelled from the organization after a racist video surfaced. In the grainy video, the four students are shown mocking slavery and using racist slurs. The first part shows a student jokingly hitting a person under a blanket and saying…
“Former police officer Steele has lost the trust of those he served,” Detroit police chief said.
A Missouri waitress has been fired after a video of her after-work activities went viral. In a Snapchat video uploaded to Facebook, Tabitha “Tabbie” Duncan is riding in a pick-up truck with two men who talk about going “n***er hunting.” “You get them n***ers,” the 20-year-old tells the men. Duncan…
Another case of big business and police perpetuating racism on the job. Dr. Covey Banks and her family, on an Orlando vacation, were swimming in the Omni Hotel pool, until a member of the Clampett family, a white woman, instructed her daughter to pee in the pool, splash the family,…
With the driver present at the scene of the crime, and the police “confident” that the same person posted racist Snapchats about the killing, no arrest has been made. Sherrell Lewis Jr., 31, was killed last week in Louisiana while helping clear debris from a highway by the truck Matthew…
(REUTERS) — Time Warner Inc (No. 37 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) and Snap Inc said on Monday they had entered into an agreement to develop original shows for messaging service Snapchat over the next two years. The companies did not disclose the financial terms but a source…