Suicide in Success, Race and Social Media

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Suicide
Suicide is one of those topics that is not talked about enough like AIDS, HIV, and other serious issues that should be discussed more openly instead how to get more twitter followers or increasing your klout score. Suicide in tech and social media has been a topic more recently in the past year with the deaths of Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of at the age of 22 and Trey Pennington which both sent shock waves to their colleagues and those who they had a relationship with online.

For the black/African-American community suicide is hardly a thought for most as there's enough black on [...]

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Day 16: People of color impacting the social web – Nnena Ukuku – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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Day 15: People of color impacting the social web – Andre Barnes – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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Day 14: People of color impacting the social web – Faye Anderson – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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Day 13: People of color impacting the social web – Baratunde Thurston with Video – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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Day 12: People of color impacting the social web – Bren Herrera – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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Day 11: People of color impacting the social web – Anthony Frasier – #29DaysofDiversity

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As we all know, February is Black History Month. It's a month where we honor those who have made an impact on American culture for equal rights, those who have invented, those who have a helped others and those who have inspired everyone to be the best they can be, not only as a person of color but as a human. For the past two years for Black History Month, I started an online series called 28 Days Diversity where I would feature someone new everyday during the month of February for just being awesome in their own right. Even though it's black history month, the goal for 28 Days of [...]

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