Diversity Management, News and Updates
Six months after major social media channels such as YouTube and Twitter banned Alex Jones’ Infowars, Roku, a streaming service, added a channel for the show’s 24 million users. Apparently, there has been a channel for the show on Roku for years, according to Roku spokesman Eric Savitz. Infowars, a…
For the new year, somebody got a #WhileBlack lesson. A white male customer at McDonald’s in St. Petersburg, Fla., violently grabbed and pulled a Black female employee over the counter, and met her fist. A video has gone viral with more than 1 million views and counting of this woman…
At a Walmart in West Monroe, La., two white men, Dylan Reynolds, 22, and Michael Walters, 24, followed a Black female shopper to her car. When she was approached, she quickly threw her groceries in her car, as the men shouted racial slurs, including the n-word. As she drove away,…
Miriam and Carlita Alejandro, Latinx sisters, shopping at The Children’s Place in Camp Hill, Pa., got harassed by a nosey store clerk when they ask to price match clothes. A sales associate said the women were angry because they’re on welfare. Miriam said she was there to help a family…
A white man screamed racist hateful speech out of his car window at Janet Sabriu, a citizen and Houston voter on her way to the polls. Alongside Sabriu on the road in the Spring Branch neighborhood, the white man criticized Sabriu’s driving and yelled, “That’s not how we drive in…
Lisa Benson Cooper, a Black TV reporter, was fired from her job for making her white female colleagues feel uncomfortable about their privilege. Ruby Hamad, author of The Guardian article, “How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour,” heard that Cooper was suspended, then fired, for sharing…
