3 Stories You Should Read 2/5/2019: Evan Lyndell Parker, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Inaugural Committee
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH – BRILLIANT BLACK WOMEN TO CELEBRATE: Shirley Chisholm
Reading Time: 3 minutes Shirley Chisholm became the first African-American congresswoman in 1968. Four years later, she became the first major-party black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency.
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JOHN PAVLOVITZ: WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE JOINS A CULT
Reading Time: 3 minutes No one willingly joins a cult. They are lured and tricked and coerced all the up to the precipice of emotional and intellectual surrender—and then they fall in. Once there, it is nearly impossible for them to leave voluntarily. They can’t see that they are fighting against their own self-interest, by aligning with the one holding them hostage.
Leaving isn’t an option, and so someone who loves them persistently and fiercely, needs to brave the wounding words and the violent opposition, to try and rescue them.
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3 Stories You Should Read 2/4/2019: Family Separation, Executive Time, Booker
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: An unfixable problem? Trump
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Black History Month – Brilliant Black Women to Celebrate: Dr. Gladys West
Reading Time: 2 minutes West was quiet by nature and that kept people from knowing how instrumental she was in the development of the technology for most of her life. West admits that she had no idea, at the time, when she was recording satellite locations and doing accompanying calculations—that her work would affect so many.
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Cory Booker: We Will Rise
Reading Time: < 1 minute The lines that divide us are nowhere near as strong as the ties that bind us. When we join together and work together — we will rise.
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SLACKING OFF MAKES YOU MORE CREATIVE. HERE’S WHY
Reading Time: 5 minutes In my work as a leadership consultant and coach to executives, I repeatedly come across individuals (and groups) who are impatient with the process of problem-solving. In their states of tunnel-vision and desire for quick results, they actually undermine their ability to reach the best possible solutions. The forgotten byproduct of hyper-focus is the fact that, when we are setting our sights on a singular thing, we can’t see anything outside of our frame of vision.
The good news is that there are ways we can proactively help our brains be creative by giving them a little siesta from time to time. These three modes of “slacking off” can counterintuitively help you cultivate more creativity—on and off the job.
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10 Feminist Moments That Defined 2018
Reading Time: < 1 minute From the women’s wave sweeping Congress to survivors speaking their truth, these are the top 10 feminist moments that defined 2018. #YearoftheWoman
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Anti-Bullying Programs Aren’t Working and This is Why
Reading Time: 2 minutes Words mean what we make them mean. Words mean different things to different people. We get to decide what words mean to us. Someone may attempt to insult us, but WE get to decide whether those words will or will not insult us.
This is true power. This is what kids want to learn. We all seem to be in agreement that kids deserve to feel protected. But they don’t want to feel like they need someone to do the job for them. Kids want to know how to protect themselves.
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Jussie Smollett is a Headline, but His Story Plays Out Over and Over Again Every day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maybe the troglodytes who beat up Smollett believe the idea implicit in the MAGA slogan—that there was a time when all was well with the world, or at least, close to it. When, to quote “Those Were The Days,” the theme song from All in the Family, “girls were girls and men were men.” If so, Smollett is definitely anathema: an articulate, openly gay man of mixed Jewish and African-American heritage. Once and for all, guys, the genie is out of the bottle (and I do mean, out). It’s too late to turn back the clock. The Supreme Court just upheld the ban on transgender people serving in the military, however, my daughter’s generation is more comfortable with gender-fluidity than mine.
They are the future.
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