Diversity Management, News and Updates
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…
A mayoral debate in St. Petersburg, Fla., took a turn for the worse whenPaul Congemi, aRepublican candidate and supporter of President Donald Trump,told his opponent’s African American supporters to take a plane from Tampa airport and “Go back to Africa.” Congemi, 60, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2009 and…
What started off as a heartwarming, energetic meet and greet at an area elementary school quickly turned into a pep talk that excluded many students in the room. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston last month was speaking to a group of third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students at a St….
Following an internal investigation, Pinellas County Deputy Wayne Wagner has been fired for using excessive force on Paige Taylor during a traffic stop and falsifying a police report. Wagner’s termination was effective November 18, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in a press conference. In the parking lot of the…
