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Get off my lawn (or, Not all innovation is good for the collective)

June 26, 2025 by Shay
Eerie digital face with X's for eyes beneath a red hood, with hands about to draw the hood away, all against a dark nightime background

During a recent House Energy and Commerce Health subcommittee meeting, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his latest plan as part of Making America Healthy Again. And that is that in four years, he would like to see all Americans sporting a wearable. For those not in the know, a …

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Blackness isn’t a commodity; don’t let it get hijacked…oh yeah, it’s Juneteenth

June 18, 2025 by Shay

I grew up in a Black America where our history didn’t get the full coverage and respect that it was due. It was a time when too many white folks at best strived to be color blind and reduce racial differences to the cringe-inducing melting pot concept. In the 70s through the very early 90s …

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The gentrification of equity in media and content

June 16, 2025 by Shay
Money fanned out in front of a white person's face

My writing for the last several months has focused more on political and current events, but today I need to take a detour back to my lane of anti-racism work, because there is something that has been gnawing at me that I finally can put into words. Over the last year, the world has been …

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