Diversity Management, News and Updates
Members of a local community came together recently to show their support for a Black family subjected to ongoing racist treatment from one of their neighbors. NPR’s Bill Chappell reported that “Jannique Martinez’s home sits in a tidy cul-de-sac in Virginia Beach, where she lives with her husband and kids…
In 1951, a group of Black men who came to be known as the “Martinsville Seven” were tried by a white jury and sentenced to death for their supposed role in the gang rape of a 32-year-old white woman named Ruby Stroud Floyd. Seventy years later, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam…
Virginia resident Monica Cromartie was simply going about her day on Feb. 12, 2015, when Petersburg Police Officer Brian Lee Billings noticed she was speeding and decided to pull her over to give her a ticket. What followed was a textbook example of a white police officer using excessive force…
Sidney Lanier Middle School in Fairfax County will no longer be named after the private who served in the Confederate army. On Friday, June 4, the school announced it will now be known as Katherine Johnson Middle School — the Black NASA mathematician who, along with three other Black women,…
As a growing number of states have begun prejudiced and hate-filled attempts to roll back rights for their LGBTQ citizens, the state of Virginia is moving in the opposite direction, approving a number of recent pro-LGBTQ measures into law. The latest diverse and inclusive act from state lawmakers? Virginia will…
A bill to abolish the death penalty is winding its way through the Virginia state legislature. The bill has passed the senate and is expected to soon be signed by Gov. Ralph Northam. Once approved, it would make Virginia the 23rd state in the country to ban the death penalty,…
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…
