BY ALEX EDWARDS ⢠JUN 12, 2020  Earlier this year, Texas was ranked as the No. 2 state for Black entrepreneurs to build a business. While there are many factors that make the state, and Dallas-Fort Worth, a great place for founders of colorâcamaraderie, opportunity, economic incentivesâthereâs still a ways to go when it comes to inclusion. Those issues are evermore apparent in the current state of…
So you want to be an ally? Itâs ok to be new to it. You just gotta be true to it. How? The biggest hurdle youâll have is empathy. Itâs the thing that allows you to take a walk in someone elseâs shoes and causes you to look beyond yourself. Itâs the one thing that topples white fragility, which is one of the most substantial barriers to allyship.…
If a domestic abuse victim survives, is the burden on the victim to explain and correct the problem of the abuse? Or do you protect them and provide a safe haven so they can heal and get on with their lives? Youâll agree that it is on someone with more power to address the abuse, and if they can, shut down the abuser. … Companies… as you lean…
On @theculturesoup, @jarretthill and I discussed how there are so many allies who are articulating so beautifully why All Lives Matter shouldnât be the retort to Black Lives Matter. There are all sorts of analogies swirling on the interwebs. Youâve heard them all: â The one house on fire â The dinner table where one person isnât served â The breast cancer event where someone asks why not…
The year was 2013. I was minding my own business, rocking my 3-month-old to sleep after her midday bottle when my smartphone lit up. It was my first supervisor, a partner at a massive agency. He was embedded at a company that used to be a client, and that I had incredible respect for. Ultimately, he asked me to come work for that company. I wasnât in the…
I usually begin my messages with storytelling, and while I could tell any number of stories of my experience with discrimination in Corporate America, I want to humanize this message by focusing the discussion on you–the leader who actually has some decision- making power to do something about the black employee experience in your workplace. I’ll start by asking this question: How will you move this important…
Allies… have you texted, called, emailed, sent a carrier pigeon to check on your black friends or colleagues? My network is telling me no. In fact, I know first hand. I know it seems that because some of us have learned to walk and talk in the smooth corporate way, that we have credentials up to our ears, that we are church-going people who wouldnât dream of…