Diversity Management, News and Updates
In a truly shocking display, a woman in Philadelphia was recently raped on a train filled with commuters — and nobody did anything to stop the attack. Claudia Lauer of the Associated Press reported that “a man charged with raping a woman on a commuter train just outside of Philadelphia…
A man from Long Island, New York, is under arrest following a disturbing series of hate crimes targeting Latino men he committed over the weekend. Tim Stelloh of NBC News has reported that 19-year-old Christopher Cella stands accused of first targeting and then attacking three different Latinx men in a…
In a record no one wanted to see broken, the FBI has reported that the number of hate crimes in the United States has reached its highest point in more than a decade, with the majority of reported attacks targeting Black and Asian Americans. The finding comes from a newly…
In a senseless act of violence and tragic loss of life, Alvin Motley Jr., 48, was shot and killed while fueling up his car — because a white security guard thought he was playing his music too loudly. David K. Li of NBC News has reported that Motley, who lived…
Although media coverage of anti-Asian attacks in America seems to have slowed over the last few months as the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has taken over the headlines, that doesn’t mean the violence has gone away. Despite Congress passing legislation to combat anti-Asian hate crimes, it has, unfortunately,…
An Iowa man has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for shooting a 15-year-old Black girl. The incident took place following a pro-Trump political rally he attended late last year. The Associated Press reported that “Michael McKinney, 26, of St. Charles, pleaded guilty in June to intimidation…
Michelle A. Avan, the Senior Vice President and Head of Global Women’s and Underrepresented Talent Strategy for Bank of America, was found dead on August 5, and Los Angeles police believe the high-profile executive was murdered. Robert J. Lopez of the Los Angeles Times reported that the investigation into Avan’s…
Following months of increased hate crimes involving Asian Americans and increased anti-Asian sentiment on the whole towards the AAPI community, a new Gallup Poll reveals that dissatisfaction with the way Asian Americans are treated in the United States has reached an all-time high. Based on Gallup’s new data, Bianca Brutus…
On Tuesday, July 27, justice was partially served when a Cherokee County courthouse sentenced Robert Aaron Long, the shooter in the March 2021 Atlanta-area spa attacks that left eight people dead (six of whom were women of Asian descent), to four consecutive life sentences after he pleaded guilty to all…
Lisa Michelle O’Quinn of Greenville, North Carolina was arrested after hitting two Black women with her car during an otherwise nonviolent protest over the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in April. Elizabeth City has been the site of near-daily protests for weeks, and tensions in the city grew…
