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Sunday, February 24, 2019

An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer

Fill up With Five Stories About Soup

White Savior: The Movie Trailer

Note to Self 2

An excerpt from Business Insider -

How Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison went from making $4.35 an hour as a Target security guard to running the second biggest home-improvement retailer in the US
By Áine Cain


Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison spent years at major retailers
including Home Depot and JCPenney. Pool / Getty Images
Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison can draw on his many years of retail experience.

Not only has the longtime executive held plenty of leadership positions over the course of his career, but he also knows what it's like to work as a store employee at places like Target.

Ellison became CEO of Lowe's in 2018. There, he makes a base annual salary of $1.45 million with $6 million worth of restricted stock options, according to the Charlotte Business Journal. But as a college student, he started out with a part-time security gig at Target, which only paid $4.35 an hour.

https://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-ceo-marvin-ellison-life-career-2019-2

Note to Self

An excerpt from Business Insider -


The CEO of the world's largest cruise company reveals the advice he would give to his 25-year-old self
By Mark Matousek

Carnival Corporation CEO Arnold Donald. Lynne Sladky/Associated Press

Since Arnold Donald became the CEO of Carnival Corporation in 2013, the company has more than doubled its annual earnings and increased its share price by 70%, as of the end of 2018.

Donald said in an interview with Business Insider that he made listening to his employees and customers a priority at the beginning of his tenure. If he could give his 25-year-old self advice, it would be to listen.

"I would just tell my 25-year-old self to do, hopefully, what I try to do a lot of my life, which is listen, listen, listen. You can learn from anybody and everybody," he said.

"If you listen to the world, it will reveal itself to you. In business, if you listen to your customers or guests, they will tell you what it takes to exceed their expectations. If you listen to your employees, they will tell you how to deliver whatever that guest or customer wants in a manner where it's sustainable for the company."

https://www.businessinsider.com/carnival-cruise-ceo-shares-advice-youth-2019-2

The guide book that helped black Americans travel during segregation

The Only One

An excerpt from the NYTimes -

For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’
Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.
By Amy Harmon

BALTIMORE — It was not an overt incident of racism that prompted Edray Goins, an African-American mathematician in the prime of his career, to abandon his tenured position on the faculty of a major research university last year.

The hostilities he perceived were subtle, the signs of disrespect unspoken.

There was the time he was brushed aside by the leaders of his field when he approached with a math question at a conference. There were the reports from students in his department at Purdue University that a white professor had warned them not to work with him.

One of only perhaps a dozen black mathematicians among nearly 2,000 tenured faculty members in the nation’s top 50 math departments, Dr. Goins frequently asked himself whether he was right to factor race into the challenges he faced.

That question from a senior colleague on his area of expertise, directed to someone else? His department’s disinclination to nominate him to the committee that controls hiring? The presumption, by a famous visiting scholar, that he was another professor’s student?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-mathematicians.html

Sunday, February 10, 2019

New Address: FollowingFaye.blog

Changes have been made to Blogger, the platform used for this blog.  These changes have resulted in limiting the viewership via the "Share" function.

In an effort to continue to share the posts to the widest audience, I've moved my blog to Wordpress.

My new address is FollowingFaye.blog.

I hope to see you there.


Friday, February 8, 2019

Too Good to Cherry Pick

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-dingell-greatest-twitter-hits_us_5c5cf651e4b0a502ca34030a

Masterful Takedown

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Happy (?) Birthday

Monday, February 4, 2019

9-Year-Old Wants To Be The FIRST Female NBA Player

How To Cook Jollof Rice | Ivonne Ajayi

Ralph Northam’s 1984 Blackface Explanation Is a Racism Dumpster Fire | T...

Jinjing The Penguin - Swims 5000 Miles Every Year To Visit The Man Who S...

How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable - Chris...

Francesca Battistelli - The Breakup Song (Official Music Video)

Kick off Black History Month With These Four Stories

The Aluminum Ball Challenge Started With Mud

How An Artist Built A Sculpture That Expands As You Walk Through It

What It's Like To Sleep In A Boeing 747 Hotel Room

Ad Meter 2019: Bumble

NFL 100 Super Bowl Commercial

"A Dreamer and a Rhodes Scholar"

An excerpt from the NY Times -

I’m a Dreamer and a Rhodes Scholar. Where Do I Belong?
A person shouldn’t have to be a “genius” or “economically productive” to have access to equal opportunity. 
By Jin Park

Mr. Park is a recent graduate of Harvard.

In November, I became the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiary to win the Rhodes scholarship. The news was bittersweet.

In 2017 the Trump administration rescinded the option for overseas travel for those with DACA status, the Dreamers who were brought to this country illegally as children. This means that when I leave the country in October to study at Oxford with my fellow Rhodes scholars, I may not be able to come back.

This is a perpetual reality of being undocumented: I never know if I have a place in America — my home — even after receiving one of the most esteemed scholarships in the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/opinion/dreamer-rhodes-scholar-human.html

Overlooked No More

From the NY Times -

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/black-history-month-overlooked.html

Burger King Slams McDonald's

As seen in the UK

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Friday, February 1, 2019

Officially Missing You & How Deep Is Your Love - Saxophone Cover by Desm...

Trailer Grantchester Season 4

Ron Clark Academy Super Bowl Music Video - "Welcome to the A"

India Arie - What If

Weekend Update: Trump Announces Deal to End Shutdown - SNL

The history of black people food

Doritos® | Chance the Rapper x Backstreet Boys Super Bowl OFFICIAL VIDEO...

B.J.Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

The Art of the Get Back Coach | NFL Films Presents

Emmanuel Séjourné: Attraction (short version) performed by Christoph Sie...

The TRUTH About STANDING DESKS

Evolution of Boybands - Next Town Down

Chinese School Principal Breaks Internet with Dance Move

Tracy Chapman - Stand by Me (Live on Letterman 2015)

Coloring the Streets of Singapore

We Built This

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

Let This February Be A Reminder That Black History Built This
Without black history, there would be no American history. Period.
By Taryn Finley

America, though dangerously flawed, wouldn’t have half of the opportunities, liberties and infrastructure it has today had it not been for the backs of black people upon which this country was built. Erasure is a main objective of racism, and it has succeeded when it comes to documenting and celebrating our history. And because our history is American history, erasing the contributions of black Americans makes it impossible to accurately tell the story of this country.

This is why, this February, HuffPost Black Voices is reminding y’all that Black History Built This. All month long, we’ll be celebrating our place in the past, present and future. 

We are reclaiming our narrative. Our history is too expansive, beautiful, resilient, joyous, powerful and unique to ever become some cliché social studies lesson plan. We are seldom given proper credit, let alone praise, for how our rich history and culture have not only influenced but also helped construct the basis for what we view as progress today.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-history-month-2019_us_5c530ef9e4b0ca92c6de2143

Obama vs Trump

An excerpt from the Root -

2 Years of Trump Vs. 2 Years of Obama: By the Numbers
By Michael Harriot

Nobel Peace Prizes: Obama 1; Trump 0

White supremacist riot deaths: Obama 0; Trump 1

Days playing golf: Obama 60; Trump 154

Number of people fired or quit administration: Obama 2; Trump 42

Times laughed at on world stage: Obama 0; Trump 2

Number of times he called someone’s mother a “bitch”: Obama 0; Trump 1

Paid-off prostitutes: Obama 0; Trump 2 (and counting)

Number of times accused of being a Muslim Jihadist from Kenya: Obama 1,039,001; Trump: 0

Number of times Justice Department opened an investigation to ascertain if the president was a foreign operative: Obama 0; Donald Trump: 1,928

Number of campaign officials indicted by the FBI: Obama 0; Trump 6

Number of times visited by Kanye West: Obama 0; Trump 1

https://www.theroot.com/2-years-of-trump-vs-2-years-of-obama-by-the-numbers-1832209709?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-01-31

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

"Hold my nuts" scene | Uncle Drew

Five Tasty Stories About New York City

Sam Smith, Normani - Dancing With A Stranger

Landon Pigg - Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop

The Wife | Official Trailer HD (2018)

The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - The Pink Panther ...

How does the Mercedes-Benz Stadium work?

Grilled Egg-Mayo Sandwich—Calcutta New Market Style—Kolkata Street Food

James Ingram - One Hundret Ways

James Ingram & Nancy Wilson - Wish you were here

James Ingram (RIP) - For All We Know