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Continue reading →: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on #feminism #gender #diversity #change
Beyonce turned me on to this lady in her song Flawless. I finally got a chance to listen to the speech from which some of the song lyrics came while editing, serendipitously enough, work for @DiversityExec magazine. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is funny and engaging, but it is her message about…
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Continue reading →: Playing The Race Card…and doing videos badly. #myownworstcritic #diversity
Zerlina Maxwell I am not. I forgot to mention a key piece of info, that this topic was sparked by Sarah Palin’s comment to President Obama on MLK Day. And don’t get me started on my hair. It actually looks like I have a headache, and I did. 🙂 BTW,…
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Continue reading →: Should We Get Rid of the Term #Minority? #diversity #language
I got a tweet from Patricia Duarte last week. She read my last blog on using social media to reach minorities, and suggested that we “start by nixing the term “minorities” from your vocabulary. It’s pejorative and increasingly inaccurate.” Well, Patricia, I agree. It will soon be completely inaccurate thanks…
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Continue reading →: “Black Twitter” Equals Big Business
Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal released “Twitter Users’ Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point” featuring new data from Pew Research Center. It’s official: Social media is a veritable treasure trove for those who want to sell products and services to minorities. According to Twitter’s new multicultural strategist Nuria…
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Continue reading →: When Art Masks – Actually It Kicks the Cover Off – #Racism and #Gender Issues #Diversity
You may have already seen this image of Dasha Zhukova, editor-in-chief of Garage Magazine. If not, gird your loins. It’s real. The photo was used in an editorial on Buro 24/7, a site run by fashion darling Miroslava Duma, that was released on the Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday. Of…
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Continue reading →: Sasheer Zamata: SNL’s Black, Female Unicorn #diversity #race #gender @thesheertruth
This week Saturday Night Live announced that Sasheer Zamata joined its cast. Zamata is SNL’s first black female cast member since 2007. Most people are thrilled with Zamata’s appointment. But everyone is making a huge issue out of her race and gender, as though that played a significant part in…
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Continue reading →: Santa Claus Doesn’t Have to Be White @craftingmystyle #diversity
Slate culture blogger Aisha Harris found herself in the middle of a little kerfuffle recently over Santa Claus, of all things. Harris wrote a piece suggesting the traditional white Santa might better serve the world today as a penguin. Before you go off the rails, she makes a valid argument…
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