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  • Navigating The Intersection: Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter’s Journey In Culturally Informed Mental Health

    The pursuit of multiple disciplines can often lead to an intersection that allows one to combine their passions. Dr. Jonathan Mathias Lassiter’s career seamlessly illustrates this.

  • A Disability Advocacy Startup Strives To Model Its Own Mission

    Disability communities around the U.S. are getting to know a new advocacy organization, New Disabled South.

  • Mind Reading: R.K. Russell, The First NFL Player To Come Out As Bisexual, Is Playing The Long Game To Break Stigma

    Among celebrations the NFL staged around this year’s Super Bowl was the third “A Night of Pride,” for which the league partnered with GLAAD to spotlight its commitment to LGBTQ+ players and fans.

  • Large-Scale Contemporary Artworks Astound At TEFAF-Maastricht

    Clad in a pale blue Converse jumpsuit adorned with a lapel pin of a baby and exposing a neck tattoo, American YouTuber Tarek Ali Ellis cradles Michael Morgan in his arms.

  • Women’s History Month: A Love Letter To Latinas

    It’s time we recognize the Latinas in our lives for our true value and all that we are.

  • Nicole Ponseca Is Bringing Filipino Food To Miami This December

    Nicole herself has continuously been flying the Philippine flag high. In 2018, she published a cookbook, I Am A Filipino: And This Is How We Cook, a compendium of her observations and recipes while traveling through the Philippines.

  • Politics In The Age Of Technology-Enabled Campaigning

    Alicia Roth Weigel is a political operative working in policy advocacy and campaign management through her company Intrepida Strategy.

  • Trans All-American CeCé Telfer Featured In Women’s Sports Equality Campaign

    "I felt like I was seen by my competitors," CeCé Telfer tells PEOPLE, as she joins Michelob ULTRA's "Save It, See It" campaign for gender equity in sports

  • Will The Future Of Co-Working Spaces Rely On The Hospitality Industry? The Women Rebuilding The Riveter Think So

    The Riveter founder Amy Nelson is no stranger to reinvention. Stemming from her days as a corporate lawyer where she saw firsthand how hard it was for women and mothers to succeed, through her creation of The Riveter, a community…

  • Read This To Get Smarter About Gender, Sexual Orientation And LGBTQ Life – Blair Imani

    Modern life is complicated. Thinking about our own lives can be tough enough to navigate without getting smarter about gender, sexual orientations and the broader LGBTQ community too.

  • Meet Akilah Hughes: The Daily News Podcast Host Who Makes You Feel Good About Your Day

    Akilah came from a single-parent household and knows that most girls in her position don’t end up where she is today.

  • Ernest Owens

    Owens has written about allegations of racial discrimination in Philadelphia's Gayborhood.

  • Tiffany Yu Talks REVOLT Media & TV and Diversability

    In episode 5 of Two Inboxes, I interviewed Tiffany Yu.

  • Taraji P. Henson Tackles Mental Health Conversations With New Facebook Watch Show

    Golden Globe award winning-actress Taraji P. Henson and entrepreneur Tracie Jade Jenkins are shining a light on mental health in the new Facebook Watch show Peace of Mind with Taraji.

  • Colgate Optimism Project Gen Z

    Somewhere out there—beyond the gloomy shadows of a dismal, scary, and confusing year—lies your brilliant future. You may not be able to see it yet. But, it’s there—waiting within your reach. When you do reach it, the sparkles of triumph…

  • Nitika Chopra Is Breaking The Cycle Of Isolation For 133 Million Chronically Ill Americans With The Launch Of The Chronicon Community

    Talk of health and healthcare flood our timelines and news cycle everyday.

  • Q&A: Ani DiFranco On The Importance Of Voting, Feminism, Billie Eilish, Beyonce And More

    Rebel, trailblazer, troubadour, folk hero, CEO — there are a lot of superlatives that can be used to describe indie icon Ani DiFranco. But maybe the one that best sums up DiFranco is simply, badass.

  • Why You Shouldn’t Say Yes To Everything According To Activist Jamira Burley

    This week on Unfiltered we sat down with social-impact consultant Jamira Burley to talk about why you should be empowered to say no, about the Nguni Bantu of ubuntu and about the importance of being teachable.

  • How High School Founder Miracle Olatunji Is Democratizing Opportunity

    When Miracle Olatunji’s mother was pregnant, she faced many prenatal complications. “I wasn't expected to even come to full term,” Olatunji said.

  • PLUS1 Founder Marika Anthony Shaw Is Changing How We Give

    “Awareness and advocacy and talking about the issues is so vital and we have the power to do that as people who hold a microphone every night,” says Marika Anthony- Show, co-founder of PLUS1.

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