Race & Equity

Supporting Black Entrepreneurship, Leveling the Playing Field

California recently passed a Bill requiring venture capital (VC) firms to disclose diversity data about their portfolio…

Why Racial Healing Is A Must for Everyone

Last week, we honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and National Day of Racial…

Christina Applegate’s Emmy’s appearance is an invitation to bring disability to the forefront in more spaces

Christina Applegate’s Emmy appearance, wherein she walked onstage using a cane and spoke openly about…

Strong Enough: Respect The Physical Space of Black Women

Black women have been subjected to unfair scrutiny in multiple spaces for too long. Physical limitations are often imposed on women of color based on societal biases and…

Diversity has become a dirty word, and not because it deserves to be.

The new year started with this lesson. Claudine Gay, the first Black woman president of…

Charity begins at home

Members of Congress just agreed to spend nearly 95 million dollars in humanitarian relief to victims of…

The language of humanity

It was the spring of 1978, I had just finished kindergarten and our family went…

Imposter Syndrome, Like the “Strong Black Woman” Trope, Hurts Us.

Imposter Syndrome (IS), is a term initially meant to deconstruct erroneous feelings of inadequacy, often…

OpenAI’s Lack of Gender Diversity on its Corporate Board Could Be an Existential Threat to Humanity

Sam Altman was recently fired as CEO of OpenAI by a board of directors that…

Same Song, Different Dance: Name, Image, and Likeness Disguised as College Athlete Empowerment

As Sunday night football returns to television sets and streaming platforms, football has seen a dramatic…

Will the UN ever be able to eradicate systemic racism within?

In the midst of the Israel-Hamas conflagration, a significant anniversary at the United Nations –October…

What Senator Cory Booker gets wrong about Black people and AI

Recently, Senator Cory Booker sat down with tech insiders to discuss equity, discrimination, and Blackness, as…

Affirmative Action Reboot: Make Admissions More Fair This Year

Just over 20 years ago as a new Cambridge University graduate, I got on a…

For anyone who loves picture books!

As a child, I hardly ever read a book that had a main (or even…

Cultural Competency in Special Education is Needed to Handle Differing Cultural Assumptions Around Disability

At my sons’ annual school planning meeting 20 years ago, I sat quietly as the…