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Better.com’s technology has the potential to reduce human biases in making mortgage lending decisions.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) A company described as democratizing and potentially helping to decrease discrimination in the mortgage lending has laid off its entire diversity and inclusion recruiting team, CNN reports. Better.com, a mortgage originator that …
Read More »Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will …
Read More »Tisha Campbell Calls Out Company For Martin And Gina Shirts
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Read More »Actor Jussie Smollett Testifies Him And Accuser Shared Drug-Fueled Nights At Bathhouse Together
Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett testified in his defense Monday saying that he and his accuser spent drug-fueled nights together at a gay bathhouse. Smollett, 39, testified that he and Abel Osundairo met at a nightclub in the fall of 2017 and shared cocaine together. The actor also said he …
Read More »Black-owned cannabis dispensary named after Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday opens its doors in L.A.
Two Black women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles recently added their voices to the chorus of California’s predominantly white legalized cannabis marketplace by opening their own dispensary. CEO Whitney Beatty and COO Ebony Andersen opened Josephine & Billie’s on Oct. 29, according to Forbes. The old-school, speakeasy-style cannabis store is named …
Read More »Ladies Night: The Other Characters in Insecure's 7th Episode? A Wardrobe by All Black Female Designers
Screenshot: HBO (YouTube) Never let it be said that Insecure doesn’t know how to carry a theme alllllll the way through. Even as the show prepares for its farewell, it marked another first on Sunday night—an episode themed around the girls’ night of Issa, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany—by dressing its …
Read More »Are We Doomed?
Danielle Del Plato A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human brain overtaken by the tyranny of artificial intelligence, than to foresee the end of our 250-year experiment …
Read More »Joslyn ‘Joss The Boss’ Spurlock is a beauty guru with an empire in the making
Zoom calls may only require women to be presentable from the waist up, but a beat face can help you forget that you have on pajama bottoms and fuzzy slippers along with your blouse, blazer, or hoodie embroidered with your employer’s logo. BOSS luxury makeup tools is a line of …
Read More »Kids And Other Adorable Family At The Hip Hop Awards
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Read More »A Ball For First Black Mayor Of St. Petersburg, Florida, Canceled Due To ‘Inappropriate’ Circus Theme
A ball planned for Ken Welch, the first Black mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, was canceled amid concerns the ball’s circus theme was inappropriate. The Junior League of Florida, which has held the ball since 2006, scrapped the event after Welch declined the invitation to attend. The theme for the ball …
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