Photo: William Thomas (Getty Images) If Hilton Hotels truly has the “zero-tolerance” policy against racism and discrimination they claim to have, why is it that its hotel staff members are still constantly being accused of racism and discrimination? The popular hotel chain is currently the target of several lawsuits filed …
Read More »Russell Wilson On NFL Season, Ciara’s Pregnancy And COVID
With the 2020 NFL season quickly approaching for its Sept. 10 opener, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is sharing his concerns about playing amid the growing coronavirus pandemic. Wrapping his thoughts around his wife and singer Ciara being pregnant with their second child together is his main reason for why …
Read More »Three Guides to the Next America
This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after a time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, …
Read More »Keke Palmer On Rumors Her Show Was Canceled Due To Activism
In July of last year, Keke Palmer began hosting Strahan, Sarah and Keke on ABC. However, once the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in March, the show was put on hiatus. The chat fest was reportedly canceled this month. Memes have been circulating that the show was canceled by ABC …
Read More »Workers Protest Racial Inequality Across America
On Monday (June 20), workers rallied with organized labor to protest systemic racism and economic inequality. Tens of thousands of employees from the service industry, fast-food chains, and the gig economy in 160 cities walked off the job for the “Strike for Black Lives” in order to seek better treatment …
Read More »Supermodel Beverly Johnson Calls Out Racist Pool Incident
In 1974, Beverely Johnson became the first Black woman on the cover of Vogue magazine but the supermodel had to deal with endless racism in the fashion industry to break that barrier. She recently opened up about a disturbing incident at a photoshoot when she was a model on the …
Read More »NYPD Commissioner Big Mad That People Have the Audacity to Demand Police Reform
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) You know, seeing police officers throw temper tantrums over people asking them to try to avoid killing Black people as much as possible only further amplifies the fact that they may not be the right people for this job. The commissioner for the New York …
Read More »Kandi Burruss Reveals How RHOA Will Return With Coronavirus
Many shows are on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic still devastating many parts of the country. However, BRAVOS’s popular series, Real Housewives Of Atlanta, is currently very much in production. Kandi Burruss told Extra the show is shooting during COVID-19 but taking the necessary precautions to keep everyone on …
Read More »‘They Got Her This Time, Son’
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and The Marshall Project. On September 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club. Michelle, …
Read More »‘Grown-ish’ Star Yara Shahidi Inks Deal With ABC Studios
Grown-ish actress Yara Shahidi can check off yet another accomplishment! Shahidi is taking her talents to the production side and is growing within her relationship with ABC Studios. Deadline reports that the 20-year-old and her mother Keri Shahidi have inked a deal with ABC’s Disney Television Studios unit “to develop …
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