Just What The Doctor Ordered

When the animated children's show "Doc McStuffins" debuted, Dr. Myiesha Taylor, a physician with a 4-year-old daughter, was excited to see "child of color in a starring role... and she’s an aspiring intellectual professional, not a singer or dancer or athlete.” Taylor was inspired and later created an online collage featuring an image of little Doc surrounded by 131 photos of real-life African-American female doctors, writing: "We are trailblazers. We are women of color. We are physicians. We ARE role-models. We are Doc McStuffins all grown up!"

Since then, Taylor and other physicians have taken the "We Are Doc McStuffins" concept to a whole new level -- they founded an organization, the Artemis Medical Society, a new organization to support and nurture a "global sisterhood of women physicians of color," and have signed up more than 3,000 doctors and medical students from around the world. In addition to supporting practicing doctors and students, they also want to encourage more young girls of color to consider medicine.

In an interview with Ebony Magazine Taylor explains, “Doc McStuffins is important to me because I am that little girl. And it’s not just me. My female friends who are physicians have all been talking about Doc. We love what she represents... We didn’t have Doc or anything close to her on television when we were growing up. Many of the cartoons we watched contained stereotypes regarding minorities that would never be aired today.”

She continues, “In 20 years we should see the first group of medical school graduates who will say their dream of becoming a doctor began when they saw their first telecast of Doc McStuffins. Then someone can write the story or thesis about the Doc McStuffins effect on healthcare. Won’t that be amazing?”

To learn more about the  Artemis Medical Society, visit http://artemismedicalsociety.org/. To read the full article in Ebony, visit Ebony, "We Are Doc McStuffins".

The Chocolate Current

We love Black History Month here at Chocolate Compass, don't get it twisted. As you never know where you're going until you know where you've been, this year we'd like to focus not only on the history of our beautiful chocolate people but on the Chocolate Current, the present day chocolate people making history now.

We will never forget the blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors. To honor them we will highlight our chocolate warriors currently fighting the good fight and forging a path in the world, for without our chocolate past we would be nothing.

Let Go + Show Up = Grow

As a people, as a culture, especially our youth, we sometimes surround ourselves with people and things that do nothing but bring negativity into our world. It's so hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when there's always someone or something there forcing you to look back at the darkness behind you. It's so hard to see the silver lining in the clouds when there are people and things around you constantly highlighting the rain. And it's even harder to rise up and shine when there people and things whose pull and weight on you is so great that you constantly mistake it as your own baggage or issues.

We like to say that there's nothing holding you back in the world but you. Easier said than fixed, I say. But there are steps to be taken to ensure that your path has less stumbling blocks and fewer back slides. We are a race and a culture whose greatest triumphs have and will continue to come through the face of oppression and adversity. We are a present, living reminder that we are more than what people think and show us to be. We are more. So be more. Do more. Show more. More than just show, show up more.

If you want positivity in your life, if you want growth and change and light and fun and prosperity and purpose and meaning then you must first show up. Take steps to being and doing just those things, those good things, and let go of all the people and things, the "haters and excuses" as you will, that are pulling you or slowing you down.

See and Be Seen

So often...too often...we are flooded with an overwhelming amount of negativity regarding our race and our culture. Every single day the media tries to sell us an impossible, not to mention inaccurate, image of what and who we are as a people and of what we should aspire to. We are celebrated on designated holidays and months, recognized for how far we have come only to be ignored and mocked and hidden when the sun is no longer shining on our days. 

We are athletes, we are entertainers, we are educators, we are visionaries but we are so much more. We need to encourage the media to promote the positives in our homes and communities year round.

How can we do this? With social media, of course. Get off World Star, as it promotes every negative stereotype that's been created for us--people aren't laughing with us, they are laughing at us. Promote and support black-owned businesses and products, not in a way that puts down everyone else, but in a way that helps to raise them up to shine among the rest.

Chocolate Compass wants to search the world, find the positives, the inspirations, the Chocolate Successes out there and shine some light their way. We you help?
 
We, like any other human on this planet, just want to be seen, heard and respected for what we have to offer this world. It is up to us to see and be seen.

What do YOU have to offer?

Chocolate Compass

Have a Chocolate New Year!!

On this, the first day of the year 2014, we begin our new year with hopes, dreams and promises. Our hope is to help make a change, our dream is to create once in a lifetime adventures, and our promise is to do all that we can to service all the chocolate hopes and dreams floating around out there. 

Have a Chocolate New Year! 

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Studio: Day 1

Chocolate Compass spent an evening in the studio working on some production ideas! We will be back at it soon to get the promotional video packet put together for our funding launch date.

Get excited!!

Studio Time!

This week we will be dropping by the studio to work with UnregisteredOG and GGE on a promo video for the funding launch. Should be fun!! I can't wait!