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A Point of View: Who’s Fragile? Black and Brown Children are Dying

A Point of View: Who’s Fragile? Black and Brown Children are Dying

Posted by | Sep 3, 2020 | , | 0

It is really getting to be too much to bear. And I know if it’s too much for me, it is too much for our children. In my new book Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit, I dedicate a whole chapter on how systemic racism affects Black children. We must demand that more attention is given to addressing how the current triple pandemic is affecting our Black children or they will continue to die. It is a form of genocide. 

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The Buzz: Black Mamba…Black Panther…Black People….

The Buzz: Black Mamba…Black Panther…Black People….

Posted by | Sep 3, 2020 | , | 0

I spent the majority of the weekend crying…off and on. The weight of 2020 finally caught up to me. It seems that things continue to pile on without relief. Especially for Black people. I woke up Saturday morning to the news of the passing of Chadwick Boseman, best-known for his role as Black Panther. The first Black superhero. This started the flood of tears. It felt like another punch in the gut for Black people. Because, yet again, another Black man’s life was cut short. 

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A Point of View: Pay Black Women

A Point of View: Pay Black Women

Posted by | Aug 13, 2020 | , | 0

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is today, August 13, because this is the day that a Black woman must work into the new year to make what a white non-Hispanic man made at the end of the previous year. Black women, on average, earn sixty-two cents to every dollar that a white man earns. Society holds deep-seated biases about the worth of Black women that date back to slavery. We need to own up to these harsh realities and correct these gross pay inequities. 

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The Buzz: We’re Not Talking About Race, and It Is Killing Black People

The Buzz: We’re Not Talking About Race, and It Is Killing Black People

Posted by | May 21, 2020 | , | 0

We are not effectively talking about race, and it is literally killing Black people. Even though Race is a social construct, it still impacts our systems and makes a difference in how we experience the world. The more we continue to not talk about race and racism in an effective and actionable way, the more Black people will continue to die. 

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Managing the Toll of DEI Work: Dissecting The Emotional Toll and Fatigue of DEI Work

Managing the Toll of DEI Work: Dissecting The Emotional Toll and Fatigue of DEI Work

Posted by | Feb 6, 2020 | , , | 0

Millennials of color tell me that it is fatiguing to keep educating white people, and that it is not their responsibility to do so. The emotional toll is too great. I thank younger folks for awakening me to the exhaustion that I had undoubtedly suppressed, ignored, or did not connect to the work. I normalized it and felt somewhat guilty if I wanted to take a break. How can we manage the emotional toll and fatigue?

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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

Racial Justice at Work book cover

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy and Belonging Across Differences

We Can’t Talk About That At Work! (Second Edition)

Cover of the book We Can't Talk about That at Work (Second Edition) by Mary-Frances Winters and Mareisha N Reese

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