March 20, 2015

The Weekly FRESHness

Edited by Mara Meyers In our second installment of The Weekly FRESHness we’ve got the goods from this week’s conferences, more tips on public speaking, and some awkward experiences surrounding the Starbucks’ #RaceTogether campaign. What we’ve been checking out… Shonda Rimes continues to prove why she is everything to us in her latest statements about the […]

March 18, 2015

Jay Smooth on Starbucks, race conversations, and just how awkward things can get

Like we needed another reason to love FRESH Speaker Jay Smooth. Last night, Jay was on All In with Chris Hayes discussing the latest Starbucks campaign, “Race Together” that has brought on a lot of criticism over the last few days. And then, this happened (at time stamp 5:20): CBS Sunday Morning‘s Nancy Giles began teasing him for co-opting blackness […]

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