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Continue reading →: When Internet Trolls Attack, Who Are You Gonna Call?Free speech is a mother. Without it, the U.S. wouldn’t be the great nation that it is. But with it, well, with it, you can attack almost anyone at any time online, about anything, and escape punishment. You know what I mean. I’m talking about troll attacks. Not the hideous,…
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Continue reading →: Beware the SpilloverSometimes it really feels like the world has gone crazy. Like people have no clue anymore how to be people. We’re just so mean spirited, you know? So selfish and just plain uncaring. I mean, we’re just starting to process what happened to Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, the Dallas police…
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Continue reading →: The Unsavory Truth about Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and Dallas PD in the WorkplaceIt’s been a rough week. First there was Alton Sterling. Then there was Philando Castile. Then Dallas. Death, death, and more death, and I don’t see an end. Because in order for this cycle of murder and retaliation to end, we’re all going to have to accept some hard truths.…
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Continue reading →: We Can’t Win Without White PeopleForget the dozens of people killed and more than a 100 who were injured in the Istanbul Ataturk Airport bombing in Turkey this week. The speech actor and activist Jesse Williams gave at last Sunday’s BET Awards is still a hot topic if the plethora of posts circulating the web…
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Continue reading →: Affirmative Action Lives to Fight Another DaySo, I’ve been following the legal action around the Supreme Court’s decision for University of Texas, and when the highest court in the land voted 4 to 3 to uphold an affirmative-action ruling, I was like, phew! I confess, I had a bad moment there, and the fact that the…
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Continue reading →: There Will Be BloodI didn’t cry when I heard about the Orlando shooting. And for a minute there I was worried I’d become completely inured to this kind of cruelty. I barely reacted at all, none of my signature faces, no curled lips or disgusted head shaking. It was troubling. I never want…
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Continue reading →: How Do You Treat Young Talent?I met a fabulous young woman on a flight to New York this week. It was a quick trip to the Big Apple to accept my Folio award — I’m a top woman in media for 2016 — and I expected to sleep, but we struck up a conversation. Before…
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Continue reading →: The Cost of Free ‘Trump’ SpeechBeing an occasionally voluble person — feel free to laugh up your sleeve at that understatement — I read with interest a piece that appeared in The Economist about how our current digital age is essentially a golden era for free speech. I wholeheartedly agree, and even if you don’t,…
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Continue reading →: Business Case for Diversity, My FootI’m feeling a little mean today. I’m facing some sweeping tech system changes at work, which always puts me in a bad mood. So I thought I’d take this time to kvetch about something that just gets on my nerves. I’m talking eye rolling, lip smacking, facial expressions, the works.…
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