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Continue reading →: Do All Female Lives Matter?So Kevin Spacey has been roasting on the bonfire of public opinion this week. His career has been in freefall since the first allegations of abuse with an underage boy came to light. His popular show House of Cards has been shelved, and director Ridley Scott has decreed the soon-to-be-released…
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Continue reading →: 11 Minutes on Twitter that Rocked the WorldTwitter used to be different. It was nicer, more educational. It was fun. I can still remember the challenge in crafting a 140-character message. If I didn’t have a clear idea what I wanted to blog about that week, I could pop #diversity into the search bar, and any number…
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Continue reading →: What’s Worse, Being Black or Being a Woman?For the past few years I’ve kicked around possible answers to a very personal question: What’s worse, being black or being a woman? The answer? Being a woman. Race is not a small issue by any means. But since most white people aren’t secretly white nationalists, you can win them…
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Continue reading →: Is Denise Young Smith Ready to Handle Diversity at Apple?I walked past the new Apple store yesterday. It’s beautiful, a rather old-fashioned front but glass everywhere looking out over the Chicago River. It was a pleasure to see since for months all we saw was this clunky barricade. There was writing on the barricade, some long, inspiring quote that…
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Continue reading →: To Unmask a Sexual Predator at WorkI wasn’t surprised when the charges and accusations piled up for Hollywood producer and former film studio executive Harvey Weinstein this past week. The rumblings have been circulating for years, decades even. The New York Times cleverly dubbed him Hollywood’s Oldest Horror Story. But most of the women affected were…
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Continue reading →: Where Are The Black Female Leaders In Your Company?When I was younger I remember trying to separate female traits from black female traits. My purpose was not that to say there is no overlap. Of course there is. But I was fighting for my specific identity. I was fighting for Kellye Whitney’s right to exist, to work, to…
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Continue reading →: #Takeaknee? You Sons of Bitches Should Be FiredWell, all I can say is, thank goodness the NFL isn’t an episode of The Apprentice. Otherwise football season would be a bust this year. Every black and white player and staff member participating in the #takeaknee protest would be out of a job, fired by Presidential decree, er, tweet.…
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Continue reading →: Love Is Not the Best Cure for RacismYou know how you feel when something you know and believe is validated by someone you think is smart? That’s how I felt when I read Lonnae O’Neal’s “Ibram Kendi, One of the Nation’s Leading Scholars of Racism, says Education and Love are not the Answer.” I was like, yes! Good…
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Continue reading →: You Can Call the President a White Supremacist and Not Lose Your JobSo, earlier this week ESPN sports anchor Jemele Hill tweeted: “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” Her employer did not fire her. On the one hand, I had to tip my hat to her. She’s got a tremendous amount of nerve for…
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