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Mary Pryor Is Fighting for Inclusivity in the Cannabis Space

By Diana-Ashley Krach — 2020

In an open letter published on Cannaclusive’s website, Mary Pryor addresses the weaknesses in diversity initiatives and hiring practices across the cannabis industry, making it clear that there is a lot of work to be done.

Read on hightimes.com

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What If Gentrification Was About Healing Communities Instead of Displacing Them? | Liz Ogbu

Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right.

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Black Healing in White Space | Sacha Armstrong-Crockett | TEDxHartford

Being an African-American growing up in a white neighborhood can be challenging. Trying to keep your identity yet navigate in a different place. It can be a challenging balance to try to adapt to different cultures, styles, and communities.

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How Hiplet, a Fusion of Hip Hop and Ballet, Is Redefining the Dance World | W Magazine

After founding the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center in 1981, Homer Bryant realized that by blending rap and ballet he might be able to get kids interested in dance, and thus Hiplet was born.

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The Cost of Code Switching | Chandra Arthur | TEDxOrlando

Taught from a young age to culturally code switch, Chandra Arthur discusses how learning default conformity in different settings now creates access and opportunity in her adult life as an underrepresented minority (URM) in tech.

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What White People Can Do to Move Race Conversations Forward | Caprice Hollins | TEDxSeattle

In this 2020 TEDxSeattle talk, Dr. Caprice Hollins explains why we often fail to have productive conversations about race, race relations, and racism in this country.

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Racism at Work: The Danger of Indifference

Racism has not been eradicated, despite the enormous strides taken over the past fifty years. It has mutated into new and subtler forms and has found new ways to survive. The racism in organisations today is not characterised by hostile abuse and threatening behaviour.

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Can Filipinos claim “Pacific Islander”? | Breaking The Tabo | Episode 3 | One Down

Filipino Americans are often wondering - are they classified as Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander!? In this week's episode, we explore the classification of "Pacific Islander" and if Filipinos fit into that definition, while also taking a look into the creation of the term "Asian American."

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What Pacific Islanders Want You to Know

“I had to teach myself about myself.”

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The Case to Recognise Indigenous Knowledge as Science | Albert Wiggan | TEDxSydney

In this passionate talk, Albert Wiggan calls for better recognition from the scientific community arguing that Indigenous knowledge is science and that's what we should call it.

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Entrepreneur Deepti Sharma on Creating for Underrepresented Communities | Unfiltered | Forbes

This week on Unfiltered from home, we spoke with FoodtoEat CEO and Founder Deepti Sharma about money and its necessity in her mission to serving underrepresented communities; how she tries to be a role model for women of color; and her fears around parenting.

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