Not too long ago, I wrote an article on Black/Asian Solidarity United Against a Common Foe: Racism. The piece highlighted the coming together of Blacks and Asians in light of the brutal attacks against Asians throughout the city and the interconnectivity of the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements. Now, or should I […]
Not too long ago, I wrote an article on Black/Asian Solidarity United Against a Common Foe: Racism. The piece highlighted the coming together of Blacks and Asians in light of the brutal attacks against Asians throughout the city and the interconnectivity of the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate movements. Now, or should I
Have you seen the cicadas? After lying low underground for 17 years, they are boring upward, coming out of the ground, feeling the warmth of the D.C. sunshine and shedding their crisp cases. They’re lumbering over the rocks and mulch, climbing the trees and walls. It’s cicada mating season. By late May, the insects are at
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The weather is starting to warm up. Spring is in full bloom and Summer is right on its heel. Millions of people have been vaccinated. Since COVID appears to be dropping off and as the cities around the state begin to open, most people are anxiously waiting to be able to fully move about the
Ransomware attacks show no signs of slowing. They’re getting to hospitals, city agencies, and oil supplies, as shown in the Columbia Pipeline drama. And a new ransomware group called the Babuk Locker gang struck the Washington, D.C. police department in April. After they pulled off a ransomware attack, the Babuk gang threatened to send files
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Africa has been reporting tens of thousands of new Covid-19 infections weekly. As tragic as each instance of the illness is, African countries have so far not experienced Covid on the explosive scale it has reached in India. African leaders are looking at India with grave concern. India produces AstraZeneca vaccines. But the country has just
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According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, well over half a million people in the United States experience homelessness on any given night. This estimate is based on data from January 2017—rather outdated, to be frank, given the country\’s current economic climate. Since 2017, the nation has endured a variety of challenges that have been poised
Take a close look at management. It is all around us. We see it in office buildings of all industries. It is also in a variety of other workplaces—grocery stores, schools, transportation hubs, health care facilities, hotels, community centers. The list goes on and on! It is not just around us; management is right before
COVID-19 has granted Snapdragon Flowers a second chance in translating their in-person business into the digital economy. It’s no secret that COVID-19 has many businesses making a technological dip into online business, but can most afford it? The most affected has been the small business, especially those in Black and Brown communities. McKinsey & Company
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In \”A Treatise on Pessimism\” from December, I said of a recent police murder: “The timing of this murder seems almost by design as if [the officer] and company wanted to reassure all who were drunk on the unrest and indignation that had become characteristic of 2020 that nothing had changed, and that he would
