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To my white professional peers…

July 22, 2020 by Heather Denkmire

Each time I’m given the opportunity to share thoughts and information in this space, I’m struck by how wrong it feels to be putting myself (what I’ve learned from others) in the spotlight. I’m a white woman who grew up among professional middle- and owning-class people and my extended family falls somewhere on this area …

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Categories Activism, class, Commentary, White folks 2 Comments

Why is your Colin making you Uncomfortable

May 7, 2020September 3, 2016 by Guest Poster

Today’s post is written by a very special contributor, L. David Stewart, MBA, MSRE, a Black man who also happens to be my brother. As a Black man, he has words that I believe need to be heard.  Race is for me is never as simply as the proverbial “black and white.” Folks I know on …

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Categories class, Commentary, Racial and Cultural

Feeling the economic legacy of racism or what we don’t talk about in polite company

May 23, 2017June 25, 2015 by Shay

Despite the fact that I am Black, I was born Black and I probably will be Black until the day that I die (can I do the Rachel Dolezal and identify as someone else?) and while I  understood since childhood that there were people who didn’t like Black people, it took a lot of years …

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Categories class, Racial and Cultural 11 Comments
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