Was Barack Obama really America’s first Black president? There have been questions swirling for decades that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s mother was half-Black. Across the pond, people were celebrating that Meghan Markle’s son would be the first baby of...
If you are thinking you might not vote in the upcoming general election, the question is, why not? “My vote doesn’t matter” is often a response. If this is you, you are not alone. 41.3% of those eligible did not vote in the 2016 presidential election. The current...
When hiring, companies often talk about finding a candidate who is a “good fit.” In the context of Diversity and Inclusion, many--or more specifically women and people of color--think of this as a euphemism to exclude people based on gender, race, and ethnicity....
We are at a tipping point in the United States. The push-back against the lack of human rights and injustices for people of color has been building since it came to the forefront, yet again, in 2016. That’s when Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem to...
I often tell people that when I travel abroad to Europe that I feel more comfortable and welcomed than I do in my home country. This is because Europeans, for the most part, don’t bear the scars and experiences of American racism. Not that racism doesn’t exist in...
House Bill HR 40, calling for reparations, has been introduced to every sitting Congress since 1989—where it has subsequently died in committee. It was only last summer that the 2019 edition of the bill, introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, finally made it all the...
The first Women’s Rights Convention in the US took place in 1848. 75 years later, in 1923, women began the fight for an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA finally passed the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1971 and ‘72 respectively. It then went out for...
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aside, the vast majority of America’s top CEO’s have a bachelor’s degree. They likely have a graduate degree as well. Where they went to college and what they studied varies. But nearly all launched their path to the executive...
Global communities continue to struggle with the challenge of integrating new populations into their societies. And there are no signs of slowing down. The naïve expectation that cultural groups must or will assimilate and gravitate to the locally dominant cultural...