Facebookâs community standards on hate speech have long been the subject of contention. Facebookâs unclear guidelines and inconsistent enforcement of its hate-speech policy has caused the Declaration of Independence to be flagged, as well as stories from users about being called racial slurs. On the other hand,âŠ
On Monday I was in New York to sit on a panel for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission during the American Educational Research Associationâs annual conference.
Aaron keeps sending Zoey âu upâ texts, and sheâs perplexed as to whether it means that heâs in love with her or that sheâs just the ââu upâ bitch.â This sets off an interesting discussion about the romanticness of such a text. See, depending on who you are and where you grew up, the infamous âu upâ textâwhich isâŠ
Denise Young Smith, Appleâs vice president of inclusion and diversity, sent out an apology to her team Saturday after being dragged for comments she made on diversity at a conference in Bogota, Colombia, last week.
Iâm an Apple products guy. Iâve been exclusively an iPhone user since 2008 (I believe) when I chucked my T-Mobile Sidekick LX. My personal computers of choice are all Apples. There are three iPads in my home. I own an Apple TV, and when Iâm hungry, I eat apples. We donât play with our Apple consumption âround here.âŠ
It seems that the United States has had a change of heart. The Gambian high school students competing in an international robotics contest will be attending the event after all. The five teens were granted U.S. visas after initially being rejected for unknown reasons.
American business history is littered with stories of businesses that were started by, or profit off of, black folks but ritually lock us out. The black community spends billions on hair-care products, but most of the stores and companies we buy from arenât for us or by us.
Thereâs intelligent, and then thereâs Carson Huey-You intelligent. Carson just wrapped up his last final exam at Texas Christian University on Tuesday and is all set to graduate Saturday with a degree in physics and a double minor in math and Chinese. Carson is also only 14.
If youâre on this website, Iâm going to take it as a given that I donât need to tell you about the relationship between black women and their hair. And I donât mean in a political kind of way. I mean the sense of culture and community that surrounds how we groom our luscious locks, regardless of how we choose to treatâŠ
Driving while black in America has always been fraught with peril. During the Jim Crow era, African Americans traveled the highways by night to avoid harassment by law enforcement and packed extra fuel and food because they could not stop at gas stations and restaurants that served only whites.
The Uber fallout of recent weeks makes something my grandmother used to tell me more important than ever now: âTo get something you donât have, youâll have to do something you havenât done. Youâre a black woman. So, to do that, youâll have to work twice as hard to get half as far.â
Itâs not a book about princesses, castles or your regular fantastical adventures.
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