Meritocracy

So the Limitless TV series is leaving Netflix next week. And I'm not sure I've ever fully explained my weird soft spot for it as a vastly underrated study of Millennial anxiety. Before the show disappears, and while there is still time for people to spend a weekend binging it,…

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…

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…