Diversity Management, News and Updates
Transgender students in the Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District are protected for now. They can continue to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear the case. The conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom represented a group of students in the casesaying…
Henry Montgomery, now 72, was convicted in 1963 for killing an East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy named Charles Hurt. Montgomery, who was 17 at the time, was caught skipping school by Hurt. Montgomery was sentenced to death until the Louisiana Supreme Court said he didn’t get a fair trial. His…
North Carolina, a state with its own long history of racism, has just sworn in Cheri Beasley, the first female Black Chief Justice on the State Supreme court. Beasley hopes her appointment will bring “a lot of hope and promise” to the state and to young people, since the bench…
In four states Illinois, Florida, Texas, Virginiaattorneys reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent their clients, who are accused of being in the country illegally, an official Notice to Appear (NTA) in court on Jan. 31. Hundreds showed up, only to learn it was a fake court date. A…
The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to move forward with his ban of transgender people from military service, as the case continues to make its way through lower courts. The nation’s highest court ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing the ban to take effect. Conservatives voted in favor of…
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Jazmine Headley, age 23, would not face charges related to her Friday arrest, and called for her immediate release. Justice Craig S. Walker of the State Supreme Court ordered her release. Headley was arrested after the NYPD ripped her infant son from her…
When the Supreme Court supported laws in North Dakota that require IDs must display a “current residential street address,” about 70,000 Native American voices that could’ve been silenced. But The Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Standing Rock Sioux, Spirit Lake Sioux and Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota all have helped provide…
In her race for re-election, North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, is trailing her Republican opponent, Rep. Kevin Cramer. Native Americans are a key demographic in the state and tend to vote for Democrats. But the Supreme Court decided last week not to block the state’s restrictive voter ID…
For every woman of color who watched the hearing today, or has followed any of the drama up to this point, our backs are heavy. We sit here and watch accommodations made for Christine Blasey Ford, who bravely went up before a predominantly white and male Senate Judiciary Committee to…
Senators Orrin Hatch and Charles Grassley, both now in their mid 80s, were there for the Clarence Thomas hearings, and they bullied Anita Hill. Forty-one Republicans and 11 Democrats voted to give Clarence Thomas a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Now, they’re bullying Christine Blasey Ford. In addition to…
