I wasn’t going to publish this but a TED talk by Luvvie Ajayi Jones gave me the nudge I needed. Notice how I said I wasn’t going to publish instead of write—because the truth is, I started writing about this…
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AfroTech Conference 2024 wasn’t just another tech conference—it was the tech conference. Sure, it had the usual suspects: brilliant main-stagers, knowledge-dropping chiefs, cutting-edge panels in ice-cold theaters. Sessions covering all the hot topics like spatial audio, AI, cybersecurity, and climate…
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Have you ever been told you didn’t qualify for a job you knew you could do, but couldn’t quite prove it “on paper”? I have! Want to know how I landed a job offer anyway? Now, fair warning, this isn’t a…
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In one week, I lost my job, my mom, and my man. To make this pity party really on and poppin’, three months earlier, only days before my birthday, let’s just say my cat and I went to the cat…
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Once I dated a man whom I thought I would marry and build a family with—something I hadn’t desired until him—but we broke up. Even though we made this decision together during a loving, respectful conversation, we felt deeply perplexed…
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