TEDx Speaker Dena Crowder Offers 5-Minute Guide on Divining Your Own Worth (WATCH)

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TEDx Speaker Dena Crowder Offers 5-Minute Guide on Divining Your Own Worth (WATCH)

For centuries, enslaved Africans were brought to America and had their worth literally determined in dollars and cents on an auction block.

This legacy of being bartered, traded, valued and devalued systemically and arbitrarily has been intrinsic to the African-American experience – a legacy that persists in many ways and is in serious need of transformation.

TEDx speaker, performance coach and GBN’s “This Way Forward” contributor Dena Crowder today offers a five-minute“Power Shot” to aid and guide us on divining and defining our own worth.

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