If you’ve lived in Washington, DC (or any other urban city) you have seen: • Elementary school students selling candy or wrapping paper • Youth with buckets at the red light collecting funds for band uniforms • Teens at the metro station playing go-go music on buckets • A car wash hosted by high […]
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Exposure = the condition of being presented to view or made known Mayor Marion Barry was praised for launching the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in Washington, DC and providing gainful summer employment to thousands of teens. My first job SYEP job was at an academic summer camp on the campus of American University.
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I love urban music (which you already know if you’ve read my summer blogs). I am excited that Donnie Simpson, urban radio legend, will return to the DC airways since retiring 5 years ago. After leaving CBS radio in 2010 following a 17 year morning show run, Donnie is returning to Radio One where
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While I have been #TeamNewEdition since 1983 my daughter was totally #TeamB2K with extra love for Chris Brown and Bow Wow in her tween years. In other words, I have been to every ‘Scream Tour’ in the DC area. Yep, I was even in the theater when You Got Served, This Christmas, and Like Mike
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I love old school hip hop. The 1980’s was my favorite musical decade. My favorite rap songs are: 1) I’m Bad by LL Cool J 2) Funky Beat by Whodini 3) Ya Cold Wanna Be With Me by U.T.F.O. LL Cool J is my favorite rapper but is he the greatest rapper of all times
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If you watch Shark Tank you know that The Sharks rarely do business with entrepreneurs who have jobs outside of their business. If the Sharks make a deal they expect the entrepreneur or one of the partners to commit he selves full-time to the business almost immediately. Why is that? Today let’s engage in
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While we were attending the Heal A Woman to Heal a Nation Conference this spring in Maryland my daughter won a ticket to the Fabulous I Am Conference in Charleston, SC. For very different reasons we both decided we wanted to head south. I am a strong proponent of education and professional development.
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Managing Up You’ve likely heard the career term “managing up” but what does it really mean? The process of managing up includes being aware of your supervisor’s needs and preferences and intentionally performing your job in a way that increases their likelihood of success. Although appropriately managing up should result in a mutually beneficial
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I had an amazing Kindergarten teacher. I absolutely LOVE her!!! She was firm and caring and interested in our academic and personal growth. We sang, read, colored, danced, and played. Although my Kindergarten teacher was awesome – as are many other early childhood education teachers – there are rules we learned in kindergarten that if
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What did you want to be when you grew up? Are you doing that now? Every time I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I felt pressured to give a “good” answer. I’ve stopped asking that question of young people for two reasons; (1) the expectation that your
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