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Learn ‘Til Our Head Swells

In 1955, Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally tortured and murdered because he supposedly grabbed Carolyn Bryant, a 21 year-old white woman, and then made sexually crude remarks.  The world would later find out from … Continue reading

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Silicon Valley:  It’s Not Just About Diversity

In the last month, with all of the attention on the glaring lack of diversity among the workforce at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, and other tech-industry giants, it is easy to become overly fixated on numbers. The demographics of these … Continue reading

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