Meritocracy

The new, Los Angeles-based online professional network for Black talent, Valence, has launched a new initiative called the Valence Funding Network to link Black entrepreneurs with top partners at firms including Accel, Sequoia, GGV, First Round Capital, Bessemer Ventures, Greylock, Upfront Ventures and Collab Capital. “For years, Black entrepreneurs have…

Whenever there are protests and riots sparked from police kill unarmed black men, women and children, different recurrent discourses come up. One rebuttal against the movement for black lives is “black on black crime.” The logic goes something along the lines of “black people protest and riot when a police…

Current polling shows President Trump seriously trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race — but current polls are not an accurate gauge for predicting the November election outcome.After all, if all the polling data up to the day of the 2016 election was correct, Hillary ClintonHillary…

Vitezslav Vylicil/Getty Images The lack of women in leadership is not simply a representational issue. Focusing on getting more women in leadership positions not only treats women as token hires, it excludes men who are made to feel as though engaging in diversity and inclusion is a win-lose fight for…

President Trump has endorsed Colin Kaepernick’s return to the NFL. Yes, you read that right. Nearly three years after Trump used Kaepernick’s protests during the national anthem as dry tinder to fire up his base, the president said on Wednesday that he “absolutely” believes Kaepernick deserves another chance in the NFL. “I…

Your editorial on Marcus Rashford (The Guardian view on Marcus Rashfords triumph: a political masterclass, 16 June) was pitch perfect. This young mans public appeals to politicians to do the right th… Read More

Part of learning how to talk about race in the workplace is unlearning what you may have been taught and realizing which workplace practices you may have come to accept as normal. In recent days, employees working in media and retail have called out the status quo of racism happening…

Lakers center Dwight Howard, saying he agrees with Nets star Kyrie Irving, released a statement about fighting social injustice and racism. Irving’s coalition, which also includes Lakers guard Avery Bradley, released another statement that made no direct mention of the NBA and said: “We are combating the issues that matter…

July 2016: that’s when I’d had enough. When I started thinking that there must be another way to lead a more fulfilling and successful career for someone like me: a Black, British woman working in the corporate world. A professional life that, although not necessarily free from the stereotypes that…

President Muhammadu Buhari during is national broadcast on June 12, Democracy Day.By Bose Adelaja &Olayinka Latona “The situation on ground makes me think that our democratic values have been lost. There is lack of power supply, bad roads, infrastructural decay especially in schools and other public places. “Many Nigerians lack…