From The Professional Edge with Kim R Wells

First, for those readers of last semester's Career Channel blog who are just heading back to campus, we're pleased to let you know that featured columnist and blogger Kim R. Wells, Director of Howard University's Career Services, moved this summer to his own dedicated blog on THE BLACK COLLEGIAN, The Professional Edge with Kim R Wells. Readers can now subcribe directly for issues, tips and straight-talk from an insider’s view.

Second, for those who've been following, the editors want to call attention to Wells' latest post, continuing the controversial discussion of a workplace bogeyman that many people don't like to talk about, but is encountered in the "real world" of work all the time: Learning to Work with Your "Peoples".

More specifically, the post revisits the nagging issue from an earlier entry about how "the inability of some African-American business and professional people to work together and value their 'own' has caused many of us to miss out on excellent career and business opportunities."

What happens when Black professionals in the workplace go out of their way to avoid each other, or bend over backwards to not appear to show favoritism? Well, as a scholar and and friend of Wells' at Howard said: "If you can't work with your own as a Black professional it will one day catch up and ruin your career."

If you've encountered hostility, standoffishness, or jealousy from other African Americans at work, you know how insidious and undermining this sort of dynamic can be. We invite you to to contact us or comment about it, telling us how it manifested itself and how you dealt with it.