Diversity Management, News and Updates
The city of Montgomery, Ala., dedicated a statue to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Sunday afternoon, presented by the city’s first Black mayor, Steven Reed. Sunday was the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama and also marked 64 years to the day Parks was arrested for sitting in…
Montgomery, Ala., now has its first Black mayor in history after Steven Reed was sworn into office on Tuesday morning in the city that birthed the civil rights movement. Reed was sworn into office at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre, the Montgomery Advertiser reported, because so many people wanted to…
Montgomery, Ala., a city known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, just elected its first Black mayor, Judge Steven Reed. Montgomery is a majority-black city but had been one of three cities with a population over 100,000 in the Deep South that had never elected a Black mayor,…