by David R. Morse
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...
by David R. Morse
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...
by David R. Morse
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...
by David R. Morse
This article first appeared on HuffPost and LinkedIn. Back in December, I theorized how Trump’s cabinet choices could make trouble for LGBTQ Americans. It wasn’t hard to do. Then, the issue was what could an antigay Attorney General or Secretary of HUD and Education...
by David R. Morse
This article first appeared on HispanicAd.com and LinkedIn. By now you’ve heard about the floridly tone deaf Pepsi ad. You know, the almost three minute ad, what Pepsi called a mini movie, where, at the end of a multicultural protest – about something – the young...
by David R. Morse
This article first appeared on HuffPost and LinkedIn. Every year during the Super Bowl, millions of Americans, nachos in hand, will groan at the TV screen, sometimes because their favored team fumbles, and other times because the commercial was too mawkish, or dumb,...
by David R. Morse
This year’s Oscars were dull. No surprises. Enough politics! I’ve been hearing and reading a lot of that in the past two days. Needless to say, most of these comments seem to come from white males. You didn’t hear any of those comments at my house on Sunday night. My...
by David R. Morse
This article first appeared on HuffPost and LinkedIn.com. The words “multicultural” and “diversity,” to many progressives – and until November 8, almost all marketers – have had a positive connotation. These terms have been very often used as shorthand for, if you...
