Diversity Management, News and Updates
By Chris Hoenig Photo by Shutterstock Football fans might hear CBS commentators calling the Washington football team the Redskins on the air. Or they might not. With pressure mounting for team owner Daniel Snyder to change the team’s name—50 U.S. senators have called for the team name to change and…
By Chris Hoenig Mike Priefer The Minnesota Vikings have suspended Special Teams Coordinator Mike Priefer three games without pay for making homophobic remarks in the locker room. Independent investigators confirmed allegations by former Viking Chris Kluwe that Priefer, whose attitude toward Kluwe reportedly changed after the punter began his outspoken…
By Chris Hoenig There is only one professional sports league in the United States in which at least 50 percent of the players are not of a single race or ethnicity. And no, it’s not one of the so-called “Big Four.” It’s Major League Soccer. In every other major sports…
By Julissa Catalan V. Stiviano, the woman who secretly recorded Donald Sterling making racist remarks, is now coming under fire for making racist remarks of her own. In a newly surfaced video recording from three years ago, Stiviano is seen criticizing and stereotyping Blacks. More shocking is that Stiviano was…
By Chris Hoenig Donald Sterling prayed this weekend at a mostly Black church. No, this is not a satire piece. The 80-year-old, whose wife has agreed to a $2 billion deal to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after Sterling’s racist attitudes were made even more public with a secretly taped…
By Chris Hoenig Donald Sterling, the racist owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, stands to rake in a huge profit after former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer agreed to a record $2 billion deal to purchase the franchise. Ballmer and Sterling’s wife, Shelly, signed the sale papers late Thursday night…
By Chris Hoenig Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is fighting to keep his team, despite a deal with his wife to sell the club after being charged by the NBA for his recorded racist comments. After sending a 32-page response to the league ahead of his hearing next week,…
By Albert Lin Turns out Donald Sterling’s shot at Magic Johnson in early excerpts from his interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper was just the tip of the iceberg. In the extended interview, which aired Monday night, Sterling repeatedly attacked the NBA legend, accusing him of being “all talk” and taking…
In his first interview since recordings surfaced of him making racist comments, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he was set up. “I don’t know why the girl had me say those things,” Sterling says in the interview, which ran Monday night on Anderson Cooper…
