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A Talented Idiot: My Quest to Know Less.Once a week I have a strategy session with two of the finest minds to have ever worked in the liquor industry, my

Dear White Friends,I call you friends with no cynicism. Historically, the majority of my friends have always been white. This is circumstantial. When you are the only Black kid in

Imagine cheating at everything your whole life. You weren't smart so you paid kids to take tests for you. You were a coward so you paid a doctor to fake

The Politics of Body LanguageI have never seen a politician move like this. There are entire courses of study dedicated to the gestures deigned to convey power. Confidence, aggression, sincerity:

Tomorrow We Gon Talk. Yesterday the world celebrated as if we'd ended WW2. We danced, sang, cried, laughed. We screamed and howled, unclenched our jaws and unslumped our shoulders for

Indigenous Resistance 101 #IndigenousPeoplesDay Hatuey was a 16th century caique, & a leader of the Indigenous resistance against the scourge of colonialism. Driven his homeland of Hispaniola, he arrived in

Written two years ago today, and never more relevant. cc: @soledadobrien Your anger is justified. Your fear is justified. Disappointment, frustration, the whole gamut of emotions: justified. Now what?Study the

Covid-19 Fitness Check-in:A Long Walk. To combat the sense of isolation created by shelter-in-place, I like to walk. Just like my Dad, I begin each day with exercise, meditation, &

The day I crossed Omaha Beach was warm and sunny and quiet.I did not fight through oceans of blood and viscera, stepping over and around and through the dying and

Spot The Racist: Dispelling Myths and Implicit BiasOne look at the killers of #AhmaudArbery justifies the implicit beliefs most (white) people hold around what racists look like. It's not much

A few years ago, a (now former) friend was going through a bad divorce. He showed up for work one day after fighting with his wife so overwrought with anger