This morning, I woke up, and I was grateful to do so. Earlier this week, my childhood friend Bob was shot down and killed by a stray bullet. As I walked to the city bus stop this morning, I prayed that I would make it there safely, free from being the unintended victim of gang violence (and ready ...

      For the last several weeks, we have been having a very familiar conversation about women, family, career, leadership and power. The common question is “can women have it all?” and the expected answer is “not all at the same time.” I think we are asking the wrong question. The better question would be: “What would you like ...

    Banking executive Tony Goins gives his take on the work-life-family balance.     Click to Watch    

By Lauren Anderson I have found that in fact the theory of six degrees of separation set out by Frigyes Karinthy is true. I believe in this theory that by introduction, each person is just a few more people away  from the actual resources required to fulfill any goal or desire of a dreamer. As a Human Resource Professional and ...

    Back in the day, neighbors and extended family helped raise children and set them on the right path when they went astray, San Francisco-based author Shawn Taylor recalls at Ebony. Today, much of the black community is splintered, and families have become more fractured and increasingly violence-prone. He asks where we should go next. … One side argues that ...

    Kiese Laymon remembers on Gawker the summer when he was a graduate student and he and his girlfriend lived below a poor white family. One day, the cash-strapped family patriarch asked Laymon for $10, and then told him that he wasn’t like his “kind.” After he answered all my questions, Kurt got really close to my face. He looked up ...

    In response to Mayor Bloomberg’s newest, and often offensive, billboards shaming kids against teen pregnancy, one young mother, Gloria Malone, shared her personal experience in the New York Times. Some people argue that these ads are a fresh approach to dealing with the problem of teenage pregnancy. But I can tell you that there’s nothing innovative about them. All ...

  At first glance, President Barack Obama’s new effort to court congressional Republicans over lunches, dinners and private phone calls seems fruitless. Despite criticism by Republicans and even some Democrats that the president is unwilling to schmooze with lawmakers, Obama, over the last five years, has watched the Super Bowl with Republicans, posed for pictures with their children and held numerous White House meetings with ...

    One thing is clear: empowering women in business and leadership is critical to growth and prosperity. A diversity of voices at the decision-making table is the basis for innovation. What is less clear is the how. How do we as women balance career and family (especially young children) without the guilt? How do we promote ourselves at work ...

    I was tired. I was so tired that standing felt like effort; sitting felt like effort; everything about living required effort. I wasn’t too alarmed because I’d felt some variation of this fatigue for the last five years. I assumed it was because I was awesome and I worked too hard. Ambition, after all, is tiring business. Lately ...