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I read an article recently titled “Obamas dish on daughters' doings,” which discussed little tidbits the proud first parents have let slip about their daughters.



Malia likes tigers and has braces; Sasha likes to dance to hip hop and plays the piano. According to the AP article, the president even used Malia’s 73 percent science test grade to illustrate a point about education priorities during a… Continue

I’m miffed at the media today. Actually, I’ve been miffed at the media for quite a while. It’s not a comfortable position for me to be in because I’m a journalist, but the older I get, the more I see how much the media has done to perpetuate racism, sexism and all the other “-isms” we tackle at Diversity Executive.



I understand why it happens. It’s about competition, ratings, advertising sales, viewer interest — all viable concepts that aren’t going away anytime soon. But there is a… Continue

General Stanley McChrystal is no doubt ruing the day he spoke to Rolling Stone magazine. But I can’t help but think that all the hullabaloo around his resignation — and President Obama’s right or wrong handling of the situation — is just a cleverly disguised symptom of a simple problem: disrespect. And I don’t think all of it is intentional.



Our president has watched his approval ratings steadily decrease since he took office. No surprise there, really; campaigns and slogans and such… Continue

As a member of the media, I know better than most how easily and how often we as an industry skirt complex issues in favor of sensational and shallow coverage.



To some degree, it’s not our fault. Media outlets compete just like any other players in an industry. We only have a few seconds to grab a reader’s attention — and that associated click-through — and sad, truthful — or not — as the fact may be, trash and sass sell.



Case in point, in the past year there has been a… Continue

Walmart’s back in the news.



On March 14 in a store in Washington Township, N.J., a voice came over the intercom and said, “Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now.”



According to a story from the Associated Press (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Black-people-must-leave-NJ-apf-1749619349.html?x=0), a store manager immediately came over the intercom to apologize, but obviously the damage had been done. Store officials have gone on record saying the… Continue