Living Color
In May, I was fortunate to travel to Oregon, an almost indescribably beautiful state where I’d previously only spent a short weekend decades ago. I was blown away by the environmental beauty and the foresight of Governor Tom McCall who, almost 45 years ago, championed urban planning and restraints on sprawl that have yielded the… Read more »
Critical Conversations for White People
The kindest, most generous take on the brouhaha surrounding Rachel Dolezal — the former head of the Spokane NAACP chapter who resigned after allegedly lying about her race — came from filmmaker Lacey Schwartz. She said it spoke to how much we want to talk about race and racial identity in this country. The thing… Read more »
As Texas Goes
Those of you thinking about highly qualified talent in the workforce of the future may want to keep an eye on Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, a case taken up by the Supreme Court not too long ago. It could blow up your pipeline. At issue is what’s called “The Top Ten… Read more »
MLK 2011
Today, I learned something new and astonishing. I learned that Martin Luther King, Jr. ad-libbed his “I Have a Dream” speech. That specific phrase, in fact, was not in the textual material to be delivered on the Washington D.C. mall that day in August 1963. Dr. King read the first nine paragraphs of the speech… Read more »