By Ryan Holmes — 2018
The feeling that you haven't earned your place is all too common among entrepreneurs. Here's how to fight back.
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A group of young Americans from various racial and gender backgrounds discuss some of the most controversial topics regarding racial and gender identity and discrimination.
In June, Forbes covered the explosion of entrepreneurs that started businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Among them was Jackie Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American stage actor who pivoted to running a coffee shop after her tour of Miss Saigon was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Who do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Bart Houlahan, Cofounder of B Lab, looks at how B Lab is changing the role of business in society, evidence of B Lab’s impact, what factors are critical to scaling your social venture, tri-sector leadership, and preserving a company’s mission through succession.
Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
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