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312 - South Asia Can Reap Incredible Gains by Empowering First-Generation Women Entrepreneurs
Providing access to finance, mentorship, supporting transition to higher value chains, etc. could help in creating an enabling environment for women-led firms.
648 - ohay.ooo - Sam: "The implications of being labe…"
The implications of being labeled a racist are so frightening that they resist any attempts to address even the possibility of any problems with their behavior. This is how you end up with the phenomenon of people joining progressive/leftist/democratic spaces who use all the right terminology and repeat all the same supportive phrases in public, but still end up acting on discriminatory and biased thoughts and speech in private. Racism is capital-'c' Complicated. Institutional racism. Inte...
3728 - As Starbucks apologizes for treatment of black patrons, police go on the defensive and activists call for justice | CNN
A viral video of two black men being arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks has elicited three very different responses from police, the company and community members. In the video, which was posted to Twitter Thursday by Philadelphia resident Melissa DePino, two black men can be seen being escorted out of the coffee shop in handcuffs. Customers can be seen and heard telling officers that the men did nothing wrong. Included with her tweet, DePino wrote: “The police were called because these m...
5083 - RobertJPeters
This is Miracle. She’s 18 years old and an organizer for @GKMC18. She is fighting gun violence everyday. Last week I offered her an internship. She is just over 5 ft, 100 pounds. Tonight a police officer beat her. Knocked out her teeth. I’m sad, angry, and disgusted. https://t.co/9Qx9G1aNxE
6445 - raejohnston
Endless messages from loaves of white bread who have never spoken to me before, but now need to "pick my brain" to do their high-paying job is getting old. I have multiple jobs, none of them are consulting. Your company should have hired someone who knew what they were doing.
6556 - Decoding Discrimination 2023!
Discuss the rollback of pandemic protections and how coded/common language continues to discriminate against Black, Indigenous & Other People of Color with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
7482 - I wouldn't attend a conference right now with people who think it's safe to attend a conference right now.
8598 - A quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on protest. Had no voice been raisedAgainst injustice, i...
9181 - You're asking me to accept that my right to exist should be negotiable. But more than that, you're establishing that being asked to compromise I am & negotiate on my human rights is a NORMAL expect...