Race/Racism

Performative Diversity, a Juneteenth Tragedy, and a Virtual Walk On Black Wall Street

Stephanie Siek
Momentum
Published in
4 min readMay 28, 2021

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Your cheat sheet for the race and racism news of the past week

A middle-aged man with a beard and a middle-aged woman high-five each other in apparent celebration inside of an office.
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In this week’s roundup of race-related news, we’ve got questionable allyship, lying law enforcement, and (metaphorical) ghosts. We’ve got people fighting against lipstick-on-a-pig corporate diversity efforts and…

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Stephanie Siek
Momentum

Stephanie Siek is a writer and editor who loves cats, cookie dough and aborted alliteration.