So Much To Be Thankful For
I love the Thanksgiving holiday. I love cooking great food, sharing tall tales with loved ones, and having nothing but big fun. I always use this day to reflect on where I am personally and professionally.
I love the Thanksgiving holiday. I love cooking great food, sharing tall tales with loved ones, and having nothing but big fun. I always use this day to reflect on where I am personally and professionally.
Donna Henes | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
By incorporating what is truly meaningful to us, we take a tradition and make it our own. Thanksgiving is a perfect example. It is the great All-American adaptable ritual.
Laura Liswood | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.
Matt Farmer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
CPS CEO Ron Huberman knows there is very little racial or economic diversity in our public schools. There is also very little Huberman and his team can do about that.
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.
Leslie Grossman | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
I am obsessed with always looking at why and how people lead. Small businesses and corporations alike might consider looking at the success of the Yankees.
Farai Chideya | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
One year has passed since a new President was elected. We are less flush and less frivolous. But we are finding the joy in the struggle, and that is a beautiful thing to see.
Janet Murguía | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment
When large, white organizations produce minority works they typically select the "low hanging fruit," the most popular works featuring the most famous minority performers. This invariably hurts minority arts organizations.
Angela Tucker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy
It's not OK to confuse me with another black girl. It's not OK even if the girl bears a passing resemblance to me. I don't care if you feel bad. You should feel bad.
BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I sometimes wonder whether the diversity movement isn't just the latest manifestation of our national schizophrenia - the schism between what we believe as idealists and what we do as realists.
Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver
How long before Lower Highland becomes the neighborhood equivalent of a tourist trap where long-time Latino locals can't afford to live?
Deborah Plummer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Whatever the details of the health care bill, our ability to shape the future will be determined by how we interact and treat those with whom we most vehemently disagree.
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
A South Carolina talk show host said it best, "Joe Wilson didn't lose himself. He was just being himself."
Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy
Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Refusing to air the president's speech and pulling a child from school are brazen acts that, in essence, put the President Obama in his place.
2morrowknight | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
A collaboration of teaching organizations made a frail attempt to exhume the 1990's Ebonics debacle by acknowledging African American English in their training curriculum.
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings.
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Too often, those of us who have benefited from affirmative action forget how and when to give back.
John Ridley | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
Martínez's move can been seen as another accomplished person of color flipping a metaphorical middle finger at all the Republicans have devolved into: The party of the "angry white voter."
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Lack of diversity and a long history of racial intolerance has taken its toll on the Republican brand with the fastest growing non-white part of the population: Hispanics.
AP | TOM VERDIN | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Republican Party has failed to keep pace with the state's evolving demographics over the past 30 years, sign...
Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
What if white women are given preferences and breaks -- where women of color are not -- because white men are attracted to them?
Chloe Drew | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
Is it fair or even appropriate to demand that business leaders focus on diversity rather than solely profitability? Yes -- in fact, you cannot divorce the two.
2morrowknight | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living