A Voice With Radical Honesty
Today, International Women’s Day, the jazz great Nina Simone is on my mind. The fearless Simone was the consummate musical storyteller,...
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- Aug 4, 2022
BIG government
The Kansas vote implies that people in 40 to of 50 states support abortion rights. Yet we have laws allowing government officials to...
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- Apr 7, 2022
Persevere
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will join the United States Supreme Court as the first Black woman in the court’s 233-year history. She...
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- Apr 6, 2022
Silence Is No Longer An Option
A raft of new laws are impacting women’s ability to function as full and equal citizens, including a bill that was approved yesterday in...
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- Feb 23, 2022
Hail Queen Rapinoe
For the past 21 years the U.S. women’s soccer team has won four Olympic gold medals and four World Cups. The men’s team has won none. Men...
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- Feb 1, 2022
ALL THAT SHE CARRIED
Tiya Miles’s ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, is a masterpiece. I thought I had a grasp on...
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- Nov 3, 2021
Shine On
The 3% Movement just wrapped up it’s 10th anniversary conference in Atlanta. Another amazing performance by Kat Gordon and her team. I’m...
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- Oct 10, 2021
First Nations
Milwaukee, where I live, sits on unceded territory in the traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest...
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- Sep 28, 2021
I See You
It was a relief when the jury convicted R. Kelly. It took just nine hours. But really, it took thirty years. Why?
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- Aug 15, 2021
When Will It End?
My heart breaks for Afghan women and the men whom they love. When will we see the end of patriarchal violence, often perpetrated in the...
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- Aug 12, 2021
Data Speaks Truth
The 2020 census data is a startling surprise to many. For others the data are confirmation of reality. We are a multiracial nation....
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- Aug 11, 2021
No Excuses
He said: “In my mind I’ve never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. There...
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- Jul 7, 2021
A Lighter Burden
I watched the racism, the sexism, and the hypocrisy around Nikole Hannah-Jones and her tenure battle at UNC. The halls of power have a...
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- Jun 19, 2021
Happy Juneteenth!
In celebration of Juneteenth – I invited you to learn more about scholarship focusing on Race in the Marketplace (RIM). RIM’s Geraldine...
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- Jun 9, 2021
Graduation
Graduates are beginning internships, jobs or awaiting the start of grad school. Or not. It’s the not category that interests me. Yes,...
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- May 25, 2021
One LONG Year
It has been one year since George Floyd was murdered. According to Statista “the ‘trend of fatal police shootings’ in the United States...
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- Apr 22, 2021
SSSSSSSHHHHHHH
In support of LGBTQ youth. The Day of Silence is a student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies around the country—and the...
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- Apr 18, 2021
Inclusivity Has No Boundaries
Take a listen to International Perspectives as Chris Arming, Dr. Marta Mensa and I explore perspectives from beyond the United States, as...
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- Apr 13, 2021
DWB
Driving is not a crime. Murder is. I am exhausted by the excuses made for police officers who murder Black people. I am nauseated by the...
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- Mar 26, 2021
They Got It Wrong
Recently a great Creative Director from in our local ad community died. He was just 60 and died not of COVID but of a different, terrible...
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