On the afternoon of May 29th, Starbucks will close approximately 8,000 stores for a training on racial bias. The truth is that it’s hard for many of us who are white to grasp just how deeply steeped in racism we all are, which means sometimes we don’t know where to start, or …
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The Moonlight Debacle Highlights How White People Would Benefit from the End of Racism
At this point, everyone knows that Moonlight won the Academy Award for best picture, but only after the trophy was given to a team of white people who made a very white movie. The accounting firm responsible for tallying the awards has since taken responsibility for the snafu, …
Good Communication Starts with Listening: 7 Ways to Center and Support People of Color
When organizations are trying to figure out how to move from being passively non-racist to actively anti-racist, one of the things that they often say they will do is “center people of color.” As communicators, we need to be able to unpack jargon and help people take action. We …