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Continue reading →: Fifty Shades of Shhhh!
Any die-hard romance lover is waiting impatiently for next Friday, not because it’s Valentine’s Day weekend, but because the film adaptation of best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” will be released. It’s a major, major deal; trust me. I’ve been waiting for this with more anticipation than the Man of…
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Continue reading →: David Oyelowo Explains Why Selma Was Snubbed at the Oscars
David Oyelowo hits the nail squarely on the head in this four minute video from a Q&A at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Black people are celebrated more for subservience and being ‘less than,’ as opposed to being lauded for embodying positions of great power and authority, beauty or…
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Continue reading →: Strippers Are Employees Too
I follow a stripper on Instagram, @Cardi_BB. She’s crass, rude, swears like a sailor, is as far from politically correct as is possible for anyone to be and she’s absolutely hilarious. She makes me laugh, makes me think and occasionally, she makes me sad. She’s not a victim, whining about…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Ernie Banks, Baseball Player and Diversity Champion
Ernie Banks died last Friday at 83. Known globally as “Mr. Cub,” Banks became the Chicago Cubs’ first African-American player on Sept. 17, 1953. In his 19-year playing career and 40-plus years as an ambassador for baseball and the city of Chicago, Banks was a two-time National League Most Valuable…
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Continue reading →: You Don’t Fit Our Profile
McDonald’s is on legal fire after 10 former employees of a Boston-area franchise filed a complaint last week — they were fired for not fitting the color scheme the owner desired. Apparently “there are too many black people in the store.” Supervisors allegedly used terms like bitch, ratchet and ghetto…
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Continue reading →: 3 Leadership Challenges to Watch for in 2015
According to Joel Trammell, there are three leadership challenges to watch for in 2015. Trammel should know. His leadership as a CEO has produced successful, nine-figure acquisitions for two Fortune 500 companies. Here’s what the author of “The CEO Tightrope” and current CEO of Khorus, a business management software company, said…
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Continue reading →: 4 Ways President Obama Shows Women Love
Tuesday’s State of the Union touched on four things that may affect women in a big way going forward. One, President Obama talked up the need to make childcare affordable. “It’s time we stop treating childcare as a side issue or a women’s issue, and treat it like the national…
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Continue reading →: ‘Lady, You Are Beautiful’ Yeah, I Know
I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that compliments are mostly BS, and I ran into an interesting social experiment on Twitter this week that proves it. Instead of saying the usual variation of “thank you so much!” and/or blushing with eyelashes fluttering, 20-year-old student Claire Boniface decided to agree with…
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