In anticipation of Black History Month 2022, the late American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou will become the first African-American woman to be honored on a form of U.S. currency. The U.S. Mint announced recently, “that they will release up to five new quarters per year to celebrate distinguished American women,”
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November 29, 2021
Our Friends:
We want to report some good news as well as a challenge requiring attention, yours and ours.
First, the good news.
According to the GEM 2020/21 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report, released last week,
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After making a promise to consumers in June 2020 that they would create a line of Black and Brown bandages to serve the diversity of our world, BAND-AID® has finally launched this line. In their announcement, BAND-AID explained,
“We are committed to launching a range of bandages in light,
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The earlier shock over the Norwegian female beach handball players at the Olympics being fined for daring to declare that they felt better in tiny spandex shorts rather than tinier bikini bottoms (and act on their own desires) was not revisited because handball is only an Olympics Youth sport,
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“Sometimes in pioneering your footsteps are going to be the only ones on the mountains. It doesn’t mean that it’s the wrong thing to do. It just means that it’s unchartered territory.”
-Mimi Dixon, manager of brand equity and activation at Crayola
Last year,
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As the U.S. government reconsiders the contours of its relationship with China, the U.S. Biden-Harris administration’s renewed global diplomacy presents a unique opportunity to engage with China from a position of strength.
Alongside American innovation, military might, and global partnerships,
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Happy Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month from your friends at wegg®! The month of May as APIDA heritage month has been federally recognized since 1992. May is the chosen month of celebration as it “commemorate[s] the immigration of the first Japanese [people] to the United States on May 7,
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A statement of solidarity with the AAPI community.
“She [Katherine Johnson] helped with the moon landing, to do the math on that. So, really brilliant mind to help get people into space and do that kind of exploration. Especially as a black woman during that day in age too,
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