Diversity Management, News and Updates
A photograph of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has been archived at the Library of Congress in Washington. The dramatic black-and-white image by photographer Shane Balkowitsch shows Thunberg at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation during her trip to the U.S. in October. Balkowitsch created the photograph using a more…
People with mental illnesses are 16 times more likely to be killed in encounters with police, according to a study by the Treatment Advocacy Center. The community in Eugene, Ore., is working to change that statistic with its use of Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS), a specialized…
NFL offensive tackle Trent Williams, a seven-time Pro Bowler for Washington’s football team, has publicly blamed the team for not taking his cancer scare seriously. On Thursday, Williams spoke publicly for the first time since the end of the 2018 season. In speaking to a group of reporters in front…
The elite Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., has had to face an ugly side of its past after research revealed that the founding nuns of the school didn’t teach slaves to read, as the legend goes – the nuns actually sold slaves. It was the 1820s and debt…
The Washington State Supreme Court has declared it illegal to not offer an employee a job because of their weight. The court ruled the state’s definition of disability applies to obesity. Federal laws do not explicitly protect against discrimination based on obesity. Under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights…
The Yard, a historic cultural hub at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is being disrespected by neighborhood gentrifiers who are using it as a spot to walk their dogs or as an outdoor gym, students say. One of the main quads on the campus of Howard, a 152-year-old HBCU, The Yard is the…
UPDATE: Nov. 24, 2018 at 10:44 a.m. EST Follow up: Black Veteran Racially Profiled in a Yogurt Shop, Cops Offer Canned Apology ORIGINAL STORY Published Nov. 19, 2018 Byron Ragland was sitting in Menchie’s, a frozen yogurt shop in Kirkland, Wash., when police arrived and told him to leave. Ragland,…
The white officer who shot and killed Cedric Pritchard during a traffic stop has been placed on administrative leave pending a state investigation of his death. The North Carolina police officer shot Pritchard who stepped out of his vehicle with a gun during a traffic stop, authorities said Monday. The…
Four dollars can buy you four items at a dollar store (not including tax), or maybe even lunch off of a value menu at a fast food restaurant. To suggest that $4 covers a family’s pain and suffering and funeral expenses for a 30-year-old Black man shot in the head…
Amid almost daily reports from across the country of white people calling the cops on Blacks for activities like napping and buying prom outfits, a Black father claims that security was notified of a “‘suspicious man’ walking on the bike path with a baby” while he pushed his son in…