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Rahm Emanuel Inherited Arne Duncan’s Chicago Public School Failure

Posted onSeptember 5, 2018September 16, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he is not running for re-election. One response has been that he is the culprit for all these schools closing. I am a Chicagoan and spent half of my education in Chicago Public Schools. I am intimately aware of Read More …

CategoriesChicago, Education, Politics

Lessons Learned From Freshman Year in College

Posted onSeptember 13, 2017November 3, 2019AuthorRachel J. Jones

Feature Photo Credit: Kimberly Boyd, Twisted Kreations at UAPB After one year of college I learned a few lessons. My freshmen year was filled with fun, work, and people. My main goal for freshman year was to have a successful academic term and not repeat Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education

Ladies Behind Hip Hop Labels

Posted onSeptember 5, 2017September 4, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

The stories about the rise of hip hop record labels focus heavily on men. Little is said about the women in the game, moving, shaking, trailblazing and mentoring. Too often women of color are reduced to caricatures – the ratchetness of reality TV. The notion Read More …

CategoriesBusiness, Careers, College, Music, Women

The Horror of the Freshman 15

Posted onJune 17, 2017September 25, 2019AuthorRachel J. Jones1 Comment

I thought it was a myth. I thought it was something people say to scare us newbies, freshmen, but it is real. My bony chicken legs started to look like jumbo carnival size turkey legs. My flat as a table tummy deformed into a Kangaroo Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education, Health

Forward Motion During Times of Uncertainty

Posted onJanuary 18, 2017August 28, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

The times are changing and technology is moving use further in the future. In order to stay relevant and marketable, we must be able to adapt with technological advancements. “Each wave of [technological] disruption has created a lot of new jobs. I am worried about Read More …

CategoriesEducation, Education, Entrepreneurship

Ageless Innovators: Retirement Reinvented

Posted onDecember 9, 2016August 28, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

As Dan Miller, co-founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards, pointed out, “Our mature workforce or gray hairs have a lot of ideas…it’s just a matter of nailing down the technology. We are reinventing retirement.”My latest HuffPost article focuses on the “unretirement” of seasoned innovators. Read Read More …

CategoriesBusiness, Careers, Entrepreneurship

Tips for Girls’ Success in STEM

Posted onSeptember 23, 2016August 28, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

Hidden Figures is a book by Margot Lee Shetterly turned into a movie based on the story of black women working at NASA in the 1950s space race between the US and the former Soviet Union (USSR). Representation matters! As a young girl, I remember that my Read More …

CategoriesCareers, College, Education, Education, Technology, Women

The Politics of Urban Education – Race

Posted onMarch 6, 2016December 6, 2018AuthorRaymellia Jones

Growing up on the south side of Chicago, my siblings and I attended the same neighborhood public school as my parents. All of the students were African American. Most of my teachers were White and few were Black. My mother said that she did not Read More …

CategoriesChicago, Education, Education, Politics, Race

Yale, Blackface & Erika Christakis

Posted onNovember 11, 2015February 7, 2019AuthorRonda Lee

2019 Update: Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring are caught in blackface. Every Halloween, schools across the country deal with blackface. Blackface history began post Civil War when as USA Today notes, “white men would darken their faces to create caricatures of black Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education, Education, Politics, Race

No Student Deserves Violence

Posted onOctober 29, 2015August 9, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

The amount of force used against the Spring Valley High School girl is unconscionable and unjustified. We need to stop victim blaming! Whatever happened to homeroom or Saturday detention. Blaming the girl is exactly why this cop got away with it before. Society blames the Read More …

CategoriesEducation, Politics, Politics, Race, Women

Roommate Hell Post College

Posted onAugust 18, 2015June 29, 2022AuthorRonda Lee

Old habits die hard. Those nasty college roommates that won’t pick up after themselves, eat your food, leave dirty underwear in the bathroom – they do not go away. They grow up and become the tagline for worst roommate ever. I’ve encountered a few that Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Housing, Humor, Weird

Sharene Wood: Balancing Motherhood & a Fashion Career

Posted onMay 21, 2015August 29, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

This interview originally appeared on Mr. Refined Lifestyle Magazine, where Ronda is a contributing writer. She is the President and CEO of 5001 FLAVORS and Harlem Haberdashery. She is a pioneer in couture urban fashion. If Jacob the Jeweler is the first stop for hip hop artists Read More …

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