![]() ![]() In an interview, Shirley Moody-Turner, the project director, and coordinator Sabrina Evans explain why this history is essential testimony. These clubs, and the stories of the extraordinary women who led them, are being preserved by the Black Women’s Organizing Archive, hosted at Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Black Digital Research. The Black feminists you didn’t know but should In the 19th and early 20th centuries, white women abandoned an intersectional sisterhood to pursue a whites-only suffrage agenda. ) Learn about the history, or better yet, search social media for images of real people drenched in color around the world. Dating back to the 4th century, it is a time to celebrate the arrival of spring and the symbolic victory of good over evil, with bonfires, dancing, and the smearing and tossing of colorful powders in the air and on each other. Happy Holi to you and yours This week marked the vibrant and joyous Indian celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of color (or festival of spring or festival of love, depending). “ is a welcoming, loving, neighborly state where you are welcome and will be free from discrimination or anything else that we’re trying to see in some other states,” he said. Tim Walz signed an executive order protecting anyone seeking gender-affirming care. Minnesota becomes a sanctuary state for trans kids This week, Minnesota Gov. Regardless of whether the bills become law, their very existence presents a “dramatic chilling effect,” says Emerson Sykes, an attorney for the ACLU. The health and well-being of trans youth are a particularly sharp focus. Legislation targeting LGBTQ+ rights grows There are at least 385 bills in state legislatures aimed at curtailing the rights of the LGBTQ community. Job one, according to its diversity plan, is to “build a culture that drives trust, belonging, transparency, accountability, and employee empathy.” The agency, which has received criticism for perpetuating systemic discrimination within the modern food system, has a long road ahead. The USDA gets first-ever permanent diversity officer L’Tonya Davis gets the job after years of service at the agency. I think he’s got what it takes stay tuned. Loduca, the company’s fourth DEI officer since 2020, will have his hands full as the company grapples with claims of a misogynistic “boys club culture ” and lingering allegations of racism. Nike gets a new diversity head Former Twitter diversity VP James Loduca (and longtime raceAhead champion ) has been tapped to lead diversity efforts at Nike. “Often, I would be the only Black woman and the only Black person in the room, on the floor, in the building, sometimes at the whole company,” she says.Įllen McGirt edition of raceAhead was edited by Ruth Umoh. “These tools are about reclaiming that path.”Ĭlarke has real corporate bona fides, starting in financial services, then to Harvard Business School, and into management consulting focusing on tech. “The Black employees I work with are so focused on surviving their day-to-day that I don’t think they have the bandwidth to think bigger picture about their future,” she says. ![]() (I needed a few belly breaths after reading the “Shopping While Black” chapter.) And while the book draws on stories of her own racial trauma-from protesting police violence to the low-level exhaustion of being the only Black professional in the room-the mindfulness work she now teaches isn’t just about healing for its own sake. She covers code-switching and imposter syndrome and even includes a mindfulness meditation to help sort out how to recover from personal incidents of discrimination or racism. “The simple act of taking a deep belly breath can allow you to calm your nervous system in the moment so that you can speak from a less triggered place,” she told me.Ĭlarke digs deep into the science of trauma and racial stress and how it shows up in the lives of Black people. ![]() This is the empowering way I started a conversation with Zee Clarke, a Harvard-educated business consultant and author of the new book Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing. Before you scroll on, let’s pause, close our eyes, and take a few breaths together-the kind of breaths that fill your body and make time stand still, if just for a moment. ![]()
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