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Continue reading →: Caitlyn Jenner Will Be OK, But What About Her Black, Poor Counterparts?I’m thrilled for Caitlyn Jenner. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her to deny who she was her whole life. I have to give her props for accomplishing so much despite what must have been a big hole in the soul based on what I’ve read…
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Continue reading →: Abercrombie & Fitch’s ‘Look’ Loses Big With SCOTUSIt just got harder for embattled retailer Abercrombie & Fitch to protect its signature “look.” This morning The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the company’s failure to accommodate job applicant Samantha Elauf — who wore a hijab — violated civil rights law. The ruling was a long time coming. The…
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Continue reading →: Brown Ballerinas: Breaching Color BarriersThere are a lot of places in the world that are practically colorless. Of course, you know I don’t mean color as in green or blue or pink — I’m referring to skin color. In the absence of color when you do see it, initially it’s surprising, like the bleed…
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Continue reading →: New York Shows Women of Color Some LoveOn Thursday, New York City had a quiet, but notable first. New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced the Young Women’s Initiative, supposedly the first city initiative in the nation designed specifically for young women of color. “For too long, young women in New York City have experienced systemic…
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Continue reading →: Women are MIA in MBA ProgramsTo boost interest and application numbers, business schools are rolling out new programs to engage women earlier and are positioning themselves as welcoming environments for women. But is that really all it takes?
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Continue reading →: Nail Salons: Modern-Day Sweat Shops?I don’t like salons, for hair or nails. For all the times you come out looking fabulous, it’s like a house of horrors while you’re in there. The waiting, the endless stupid conversations you can’t help but hear, forced to sit in uncomfortable chairs listening to rude customers treat workers…
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Continue reading →: Diversity at Google Off to a Good StartIt’s been more than a year since Google published its diversity statistics, starting a trend amid the big Silicon Valley tech companies and confirming what women and minorities already knew: The industry is mostly populated by white and Asian men. But, unlike some of the big name tech leaders, Google…
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Continue reading →: Freddie Gray, Almost Eclipsed by the Baltimore MomI knew as soon as I saw the article that it would go viral. Angry black woman: check. Fighting: check. Child abuse — of a sort: check. How could it lose? Sure enough, the media took the image of Toya Graham, a mother at the end of her tether, and…
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Continue reading →: Did You Really Just Call Your Co-star a Slut?OK, men throw the word slut around way too easily. It is unbelievably tiresome to hear that insult used for a joke, like it has no effect on the people who hear it. Society already puts an unreasonable amount of pressure on women to behave a certain way. This is…
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