The chief executive of mortgage lender Better.com , Vishal Garg, has apologized for laying off almost 900 employees in a Zoom conference last week saying he “blundered the execution.” In a letter to employees, Garg wrote he failed to show the “appropriate amount of respect and appreciation” for those who …
Read More »Viral TikTok Shows White Pizza Hut Worker Calling Cops on Black Customer After Refusing to Believe She Already Paid Online
Photo: XanderSt/Shutterstock (Shutterstock) What the hell is up with TikTok? It’s like once (white) people start being recorded, they want to do something racist for the social media app. A TikTok that went viral showed a Pizza Hut employee on the phone with police because they did not believe a …
Read More »The Power of Trump’s Magnetism in One Photo
At a Donald Trump rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on January 28, 2020, supporters turned to watch the president approach the podium. “I think it’s more interesting to look at the movement he created than at the man himself,” the photographer Peter van Agtmael says. He chose to capture the …
Read More »Longtime Accuser Sues Bill Cosby For $125M
A woman has come forward to file a $125 million* federal suit against comedian Bill Cosby claiming he drugged and sexually abused her during a purported mentorship that began on the The Cosby Show set. Law&Crime reports they’ve obtained legal documents that show Lili Bernard, who first accused Cosby, 84, …
Read More »Phoenix Police Officer Resigns Over Alleged PPP Loan Fraud Scheme After Receiving $1.3 Million
An Arizona officer resigned after being caught in the middle of an alleged PPP loan fraud scheme. Former Phoenix officer Toni Richardson was arrested on accusations she submitted a fraudulent application to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and received nearly $1.3 million in federal loans from the CARES Act, Fox …
Read More »George Floyd and Breonna Taylor Sculptures To Be Sold At New York Auction
In this Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, file photo, a sculpture of George Floyd, one of three sculptures as part of the “SEEINJUSTICE” art exhibition that also feature the likenesses of Breonna Taylor and John Lewis, is unveiled as Floyd’s brother Terrence, second from left, looks at Union Square in the …
Read More »Truth Is Stranger Than Autofiction
Claire Vaye Watkins, the conspicuously named protagonist of Claire Vaye Watkins’s latest novel, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, knows that her vagina has teeth. Claire mirrors the author in many ways beyond their shared name: They’re both writers navigating new motherhood and mourning a father who died when …
Read More »Watch Halle Berry In The Trailer For ‘Bruised’
Bruised is Halle Berry’s new movie for Netflix, and she makes her directorial debut. The film will be released in select theaters on November 17 and to the streaming service on November 24. Berry plays Jackie Justice, a disgraced MMA fighter who has failed at the one thing she’s ever …
Read More »That’s My Dog! Holiday Gifts For People With Pups
Holidays are about family and friends. This year, don’t forget to include your furry ones! Yes, our pets, particularly dogs, protect and serve us every day as service dogs and neighborhood watch leaders , so they should be gifted. Show your pup a little appreciation with these dog on awesome …
Read More »Black Sisters-In-Laws Search for Missing Black People
Photo: Rocketclips, Inc./Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Earlier this year, “missing white woman syndrome,” a phrase coined by Journalist Gwen Ifill, was a hot-button topic after the viral coverage of the disappearance of Gabby Petitio. It highlighted the lack of coverage for people of color when they go missing compared to the coverage …
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