Diversity Management, News and Updates
James Harris Jackson, 28, left his home in Baltimore, Md., March 17 and took the bus to New York City with the intent to harm Black men. On March 20, he murdered a 66-year-old Black man, Timothy Caughman. Prosecutors charged Jackson with murder as an act of terrorism in court…
During a time of despair in London, Donald Trump Jr. used his father’s favorite means of communication, Twitter, to attack the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who is the first Muslim to govern the capital of a major Western country. In London on Wednesday fivepeople were killed and about 40 were…
Still convinced that terrorists equate to Muslims, Trump once again called for racial profiling of immigrants “from that part of the world” after a series of attacks this weekend in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota. On television interviews and campaign rallies yesterday, Trump said police are afraid to racially…
One day after a twice-suspected terrorist killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday refused to allow any discussion calling for legislation barring suspected terrorists and individuals convicted of hate crimes from buying guns. Ryan’s refusal to even allow discussion on the House…
In the immediate aftermath of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, described by the president as “an act of terror and an act of hate,” there was finger-pointing and gloating, as well as disparaging remarks about religion, calls for more gun control and calls for more guns. But in…
Five protesters were shot near a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Minneapolis on Monday night. The shootings follow nine days of peaceful demonstrations outside the city’s Fourth Precinct in response to police-related death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on Nov. 15. Witnesses say Clark was unarmed and handcuffed when he was…
A grand jury in Georgia last week indicted 15 people on terror-related charges for purposely driving past a Black child’s birthday party in July where many of the attendees were Black waving large Confederate flags, brandishing weapons and yelling threats and racial epithets. The grand jury indictments in Douglas County,…
