Today’s Impact of the Voting Rights Act
50 years ago yesterday, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. If, for some reason, you are not familiar with this Act, it enforced the voting rights granted by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Act prohibited racial discrimination in voting, and gave Black people the explicit right to vote…
Cheryl McCants Joins Panel of New Jersey Small Business Experts for #LearnToEarn Seminar
MEDIA CONTACTS: Amy Parker, aparker@eimpactconsulting.com: 973-337-2028 Cheryl McCants Joins Panel of New Jersey Small Business Experts for #LearnToEarn Seminar: Digital Grass Roots & Reputation: Accelerating Urban Community Growth! Newark, NJ – August 6, 2015 – Impact Consulting announced today that Cheryl McCants, Principal of Impact Consulting Enterprises, will be participating as a marketing expert in the live webinar…
Uneven Playing Fields
View image | gettyimages.com We have all heard about the gender wage gap, how women typically earn around 78% of what their male counterparts do. Unfortunately, this statistic is fairly consistent across the board, and during wage gap discussions, the issues of women in business, movies and television are brought up most frequently. One…
Impact Meets With ECC President
Earlier this week I accompanied Cheryl McCants and Jacquelyn Graham to a meeting at Essex County College (ECC). One of the college’s seven strategic imperatives is to “develop collaborative partnerships with the community,” so, there we were. We met with the chief academic officer, Dr. Aisha Steplight and the president of the college, Dr. Gale Gibson…
Supreme Court Rules 4:5 That Same Sex Marriage is Consitutional
Gay Marriage Upheld by Supreme Court in Close Ruling By ADAM LIPTAK Published: June 26, 2015 The decision came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of same-sex marriage … As first seen in the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/1GNITGN
U.S. Women’s Soccer Team is Making History
It’s always interesting to me to think about how selective we can be with storytelling. Sometimes this exclusivity can be beneficial; we cut out the unnecessary to make room for the more interesting. But other times, it can be detrimental for entire groups of people. For example, news outlets regularly lack stories featuring successful women, whether…