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The Squeaky Wheel: Stand out while standing up for what matters

Thursday, 29 November 2012 13:38 Julie Desmond

You arrive at work thinking you have an opinion, and by the end of the day you have caved under corporate mandates, internal emails, office politics and red tape into an agreeable, agreeing drone, spinning through another week on the corporate hamster wheel.

Big money stealing away our rights

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 00:00 Fred Easter

Nobody asked me, but when she was stumping for the Democratic Presidential nomination, back in 2008; I remember Hillary Clinton saying, “We are facing a right-wing conspiracy to take over the country”...

Artspeak: Tyra Banks, supermodel, super executive and super motivator, spreads words of Empowerment

Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:04

On March 17, 2012, in Raleigh, N.C., at the 18th annual Radio One Women’s Empowerment Expo, several thousand Black women sat enraptured with Tyra Bank’s “booty” talk. Although not as well attend...

Harrison Solo

Friday, 05 April 2013 15:16 Harrison Ford: The “42” Interview with Kam Williams

Born in Chicago on July 13, 1942, Harrison Ford was a late bloomer who only developed an interest in acting during his senior year of college. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked...

JustSpeak: Unlearning racism requires taking positive (affirmative) action

Monday, 25 February 2013 13:30 Irma McClaurin, PhD, Culture and Education Editor with Dr. Kesho Scott (Grinnell College)

The recent racist incident at Washburn High School of Minneapolis, in which a black doll was hung (lynched), is disturbing. We are living in the 21st century. And yet, not too long ago in 2003 Duluth,...

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