Diversity Management, News and Updates
In Virginia, Loudoun County introduced “diverse classroom libraries” at the start of the school year in elementary and high schools with books about LGBTQ people to increase students’ understanding and improve diversity and inclusion. To activists, it was a victory. For some parents, the books about LGBTQ people are “sexual…
A Fairfax County police officer has been restored to full duty after being suspended for going against orders and turning a driver involved in a traffic accident over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Though the investigation into the matter is ongoing, Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said…
When Gavin Grimm was a sophomore student at Gloucester High School four years ago, he garnered national attention when he first transitioned and began using the boys’ restroom at school and dressing like a male, and then he alleged the county school board put in place a policy that banned…
James Alex Fields Jr. is the infamous killer who drove his car into a crowd of peaceful anti-racism protestors at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and wounding dozens of others on August 12, 2017. He has already been sentenced to life on 29 federal hate crime…
James Alex Fields Jr., 22, is the infamous white supremacist who drove his car through a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia two years ago, killing a young woman and injuring dozens. Lawyers for the staunch anti-Semite said, in a sentencing memo submitted in court…
After several months of investigating, it could not be “conclusively” determined that a racist photo on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page was him. The photo, which first surfaced in February, was of two people – one dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and…
In the wake of allegations of sexual assault and rape against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, four of his staffers have resigned. Considering that his staff is made up of only six people, Fairfax has basically lost his entire team all at once. Of the four employees, two were from…
Despite calls for his resignation, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) remains in office, following the revelation of a photo on his medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man dressed in a KKK costume. In less than a week, another Virginia official is coming forward to…
I am the same age as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. As he was selecting pictures for his medical school yearbook page, I was flying helicopters for the United States Navy. I’m not sure about blackface in Virginia in 1984. I do know I attended flight school not long after, geographically…
Danica Roem made Virginia history last night when she became the state’s first openly transgender person to be elected to the state’s legislature. And come January, she will become the first openly transgender person in the nation to be elected to and serve in a state legislature. Roem, a 33-year-old…