Diversity Management, News and Updates
Wisconsin teenager Duaa Ahmad, 17, helped around 100 of her fellow Oshkosh West High School students take shelter at the nearby mosque where she and her family worship after a school stabbing and shooting on Tuesday. The incident began when a 16-year-old student stabbed a law enforcement officer and the…
Black shoppers at Menlo Park Mall in Middlesex County, N.J., were spared from a savage machete attack, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Richard Tobin, 18, reportedly devised a plan and even sat in the mall’s parking lot obsessing over the violent idea to “let loose” on black patrons with a…
Marlon Anderson, a longtime Black security guard in the Madison Metropolitan School District, will be reinstated after being fired for telling a student not to call him the N-word, the district announced Monday in a press release. “I’m thankful. I’m blessed, and I’m so happy to be going back and…
Republican Assemblymen are playing hardball with Wisconsin State Rep. Jimmy Anderson (D), who is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, over whether he should be allowed to call into committee meetings. Due to his caretakers’ schedules, it is easier to call into meetings rather than driving to the chambers. The feud…
Wisconsin bucked the trend of recent conservative victories by raising the LGBTQ pride flag this past weekend. Governor Tony Evers signed an executive order demanding that the flag be flown over the Capitol Building in Madison. In the order, Evers stated, “Publicly displaying the Rainbow Pride Flag sends a clear…
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele signed a resolution on Monday declaring racism and discrimination a public health crisis in the area. “Everybody has been reading and hearing about the same set of statistics in Milwaukee for decades,” Abele said. “We lead in an unfortunate way the racial disparities in employment,…
Lessons on racism have a whole new meaning in public schools, and they’re popular among white educators. A Shorewood Intermediate School teacher was instructing seventh-graders about games from around the world and separated the students by race. One of the Black students, MaHailey Stephens, said she and her Black classmates…
Concerns about privacy surface with this potentially life-saving bill. The Green Alert is issued in the same way Amber and Silver alerts are — on billboards or text messages. The criteria: a physical or mental health condition related to one’s service, whether veteran or active member of the armed forces,…
Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick is so “controversial” to GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin that they refused to include his name in a resolution to honor prominent Black Americans during February. But for members of the Legislature’s Black caucus, Kaepernick, who was born in Wisconsin, is anything but controversial. The former…
Sheila Stubbs was canvassing a predominantly white neighborhood in her jurisdiction of Madison, Wisc., when the police showed up to question her. They asked how Stubbs knew what houses to approach, and for her materials, which she provided. Then police apologized, saying, “I’m sorry this happened to you.” The 911…