Pride, Prejudice, and the Rainbow Flag

This article first appeared on HuffPost and LinkedIn. The city of Philadelphia kicked off pride month with the introduction of a new rainbow flag, a design that includes two additional stripes, one black and one brown, to symbolize the inclusion of LGBTQ people of...

Has LGBTQ Pride Lost Its Way?

This article first appeared on HuffPost and LinkedIn. June is national LGBTQ pride month, though you wouldn’t know it if you only followed the White House feed. But despite the administration’s act of erasing pride by omission, or commission, the celebrations continue...

Coffee and Bias

Next month Starbucks will close 8,000 of its locations for implicit bias training. This is in the wake of the incident you’ve probably heard of: the Philadelphia Starbucks store manager who called the cops that led to the arrests of two black men. What we know about...

Is Multicultural Marketing Dead? Hardly!

This article first appeared on HuffPost, LinkedIn and HispanicAd.com. An article this month in the Financial Times, “Advertisers Pull Back from Targeting U.S. Latinos,” quotes Linda Lane Gonzalez, President of the Association of Hispanic Advertising...