How Black History Month Can Help Us All “Uncover Ourselves”
How Black History Month Can Help Us All “Uncover Ourselves”

Issue 190 — February 7, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project said it like this: “At some point when you have proven yourself and fought your way into institutions that were not built for you, when you’ve proven you can compete and excel at the highest level, you have to decide that you are done forcing yourself in,” she writes in her statement explaining why she left the University of North Carolina after an acrimonious but ultimately successful tenure battle to take the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at Howard University.

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The SumGloria FeldtBlack History Month, Intentioning, Black Lives Matter, RacismComment
Justice at Last? A Black Female Supreme Considered For SCOTUS Finally
Justice at Last? A Black Female Supreme Considered For SCOTUS Finally

She will be Black, female and serving on the highest court in the land; the first time in its 232-year history. Coincidentally, the nomination will be official at the end of February, Black History Month and fulfills a 2019 campaign promise by President Joe Biden.

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Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Gender Parity, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonSupreme Court, Women in Law, Black History MonthComment
Let's See: Why Black Women Must Be Visible Beyond Black History Month
Let's See: Why Black Women Must Be Visible Beyond Black History Month

Yes, there is a Rosa Parks signature series Barbie doll, Ella Fitzgerald Barbie (who comes with a standing microphone), Ida B. Wells Barbie with a newspaper in her hand, as well as Katherine Johnson (with an ID badge around her neck) and Maya Angelou Barbies, each in the collector series costing about $30.

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No Vax? Coping With Unvaxxed Colleagues, Clients and Customers
No Vax? Coping With Unvaxxed Colleagues, Clients and Customers

You are double vaxxed, boosted and spatially safe, yet you work regularly with colleagues, clients and customers who are not.

Never mind the masking issue, you are in contact in-person—and remotely—with people who are opposed to treating COVID-19 the same way you do and it is causing disruption, discontent and malaise in the workplace.

How as a leader do you maintain professional distance and your own safety as well as a safe and fair workplace culture?

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Tools and Tips, Life tools and tips, Leadership/Organizational, Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonPublic Health, Covid-19, Organization, LeadershipComment
Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Fierce Urgency of Now” — Updated for 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Fierce Urgency of Now” — Updated for 2022

Issue 189— January 17, 2022

I honestly can’t believe that my column on January 18, 2021, recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday barely struck the alarm it deserved.

How could I not have drawn brightly the profound contrast between Dr. King’s exhortations to Civil Rights movement activists to hold nonviolent protests and last year’s January 6 violent breech of the Capitol?

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The SumGloria FeldtMartin Luther King, Racial Equity, gender equality, Activism, Voting Comment
Words Matter: How To Turn Your Story into Herstory and Action
Words Matter: How To Turn Your Story into Herstory and Action

“Every story has value, every woman has value and can make her valuable contribution, not just the rich, famous and powerful,” says Rebecca Sive, author of the new book, Make Herstory Your Story: Your Guided Journal to Justice Every Day for Every Woman.

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Women Career Choices, Women Career Success, Ambition / Intention, Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonCovid-19, self-improvement, Female Leadership, Female StoriesComment
Be Unreasonable: Key Paths To Achieving Your Intentions in 2022
Be Unreasonable: Key Paths To Achieving Your Intentions in 2022

“Be unreasonable.”

Merriam Webster defines the adjective as “not governed by or acting according to reason,” or “exceeding the bounds of reason or moderation.”

For the highly successful and accomplished panelists at the recent Women inPower event through the 92 Street Y, practicing moderation and reason is not how they got to where they are.

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Career success, Ambition / Intention, Leadership tools and tips, Networking with PurposeMichele WeldonIntentioning, black women in leadership, Workplace Culture, InclusivityComment
Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond
Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond

The coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of life, and the workplace is no exception.

In 2020, 2.3 million women left the U.S. workforce—either through job loss or being forced to quit in order to care for their children—leading to the lowest levels of women in the labor force since the 1980s, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare it “a national emergency.”

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Career success, Changing the Workplace, Women Career Success, Women Career ChoicesPamela CohenGreat Resignation, Workplace Culture, Covid-19, childcareComment
Make The Most of Digital Marketing: 4 Tips For Nonprofits To Excel
Make The Most of Digital Marketing: 4 Tips For Nonprofits To Excel

Nonprofit organizations have traditionally used fundraising events to help achieve their goals. However, it’s not enough to only have a handful of people supporting their cause.

That’s where digital marketing comes to play. Digital marketing is usually attributed to for-profit organizations. While this is the case, nonprofits also reap the same benefits it has for businesses.

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Finance/Money, Leadership/Organizational, Media, Tools and TipsDan Martindigital presence, Nonprofit, funding, Social MediaComment