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Continue reading →: Poetic Justice – Women are taught to absorb. Men to emit… #diversity
A colleague passed along this video, and man is it powerful. In less than four minutes this young woman nails one of the main issues that contribute to women’s problems in the workplace: our inherited insistence on making ourselves smaller and less visible. It’s a poem, and I’m not a poetry…
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Continue reading →: India Arie Does much to Promote Black Beauty in New Video
Her lyrics say create the game and you create the rules, and I couldn’t agree more. It may be a struggle; but we who are different than the norms society puts forward – despite increasing levels of diversity in all realms of engagement – are up for the challenge. With…
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Continue reading →: Miss America Is a Terrorist…Because She’s Not White @StephenAtHome #racism
Want to know the best way to respond to racism on the Internet, or to racism in general? Take a lesson from Stephen Colbert – laugh. He had a good time with the Twitter backlash that followed the crowning of new Miss America Nina Davuluri, who is of Indian decent.…
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Continue reading →: “I got $30 cash; makin’ it rain!” – Love More (Explicit)
Hate the star or love him, @chrisbrown’s Love More song and video are pop culture perfect. Twitter mentions, all the latest movies, cheap product placements, @NICKIMINAJ is beautiful and absolutely vulgar, we even get a lil’ irreverent slamming of a racially motivated bent. It’s young and edgy, rude and silly…
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Continue reading →: Leave #BlackHair Alone #diversity
I am so tired of white people getting on Black people about our hair. I am truly, undeniably sick of it. It’s rude, it’s boring, and frankly, it’s ridiculous. Black hair is different. It requires different care, and because of its texture, it is suitable for different, and perhaps unfamiliar,…
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Continue reading →: Ignore Little Slights and Focus on the Real Problems
Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” is a box office hit for the second week in a row. I saw the film, and thought it exceedingly well done. High praise from me since, as a rule, I’m never first in line to see any film – or anything for that matter –…
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Continue reading →: Judging One Book’s Cover – #Racism Has No Economic Cap
Oprah’s in the news this week. A shop girl who’s probably still kicking herself wouldn’t show her a purse while she was visiting Zurich for Tina Turner’s wedding last month. Apparently she asked to see the purse and was told no; that she couldn’t afford it. Some reports say she…
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