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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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Continue reading →: DACA: Dreamers Deferred?I can’t imagine fleeing from my home in terror. Nor can I fathom being forced to acclimate to a completely new environment, feeling that the only way to provide for my family, to ensure my children’s survival, is to uproot them from all that’s familiar. That is an immigrant’s tale,…
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Continue reading →: Ladies, There’s More Than One Way to Beat Sexism.So, I was watching the movie Hidden Figures, again. I love that film. It’s so, relevant. I even blogged about it. It’s technically an homage to events that happened in the early 1960s. But its triumvirate of smart, embattled women struggling to get their due in the workplace could be…
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Continue reading →: No One Really Wants To Talk About DiversityDiversity is a complicated word. It always has been. But lately, this buzzword has taken on a whole new luster. By turns shiny and positive, and then in practically the same breath, tarnished and chipped, diversity is an idea, a construct, that I would venture to say few people actually…
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Continue reading →: President Trump, Global Business Leaders Have SpokenThere’s nothing worse than a bad leader. Have I said that before? I’m pretty sure I have. But it’s a perennial truth. Any working person knows it firsthand. There’s nothing worse than a bad leader. But when you have a good one. Well. Let’s just say following is not only…
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Continue reading →: Google Was Right to Fire James DamoreIf you didn’t know that Google recently fired senior engineer James Damore after his controversial diversity manifesto went viral, now you do. It didn’t bother me that it happened. That Damore wrote those things, or felt a certain way. I live in the world. I know there are people who…
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