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Black Women Are Dope-Remixed
Black Women Are Dope-Remixed

Black women are dope. Period.

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The 3 Critical Questions Every Company & Organization Must Answer Before Even Thinking About Leading an Implicit Bias & Diversity Training.
The 3 Critical Questions Every Company & Organization Must Answer Before Even Thinking About Leading an Implicit Bias & Diversity Training.

A few years after I had started teaching, my school district held its first diversity& bias training….

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Blurring reality. The Dystopian Narrative of Black Males In Research and the Media. How it Impacts our Perception of Boys and Men of Color.
Blurring reality. The Dystopian Narrative of Black Males In Research and the Media. How it Impacts our Perception of Boys and Men of Color.

How can we ever know the greatness in Black boys if our cultural lens is solely focused on perceiving our young men as one monolithic group?

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A Hidden Pandemic: Mental Health,Trauma & Racial Healing
A Hidden Pandemic: Mental Health,Trauma & Racial Healing

At the intersection of a worsening COVID pandemic and the birth of a new civil rights era, we are also experiencing a shadow mental health pandemic in our communities. Our panelist will discuss trauma and racial healing in these times.

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Here’s Why It Hurts When People Say “All Lives Matter”
Here’s Why It Hurts When People Say “All Lives Matter”

On July 19th, 2016 Vanity Fair Magazine published my article on why African Americans were hurt regarding the “All Lives Matter” movement. This is the article and it is even more relevant 4 years later than it was when it was first written.

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