• Positive/Negative: what are you consuming?

    (2-minute read) Okay, this is a working title but you get the point… I had a thought recently about how negativity spreads like wildfire while positive people doing positive things takes so long to catch a spark. Why does degrading content get the most shares, likes, and laughing emojis but stories about people doing good for themselves or their communities garner no more than a few seconds of our attention and hardly any engagement? Consider the number of positive images/content of Black men graduating from higher education institutions vs. Black men walking down prison walkways. Or weigh the number of times the media broadcasts women partnering to form LLCs against…