Earlier this month, Cardi B shared a photo of her collection of 23 Hermés Birkin bags. The luxury handbags are very hard to come by, so her picture went viral with people noting how popular the bags will become. But, this week, after seeing one particularly racist comment about her …
Read More »How Tristan Walker Went From a ‘Kid From Queens’ to One of the Most Successful Black Entrepreneurs of His Generation
Tristan Walker is living every Black entrepreneur’s dream. In 2013, at just 31, a year after leaving his corporate job in tech, he founded Walker & Co. Brands. It now includes both men’s grooming line Bevel and women’s haircare line Form, but it all started with his frustration about the …
Read More »Ava DuVernay To Headline A Cory Booker Fundraiser
Booker’s opponent in his upcoming collection is Rik Mehta, a biotech entrepreneur. Though Booker is the predicted winner, he has decided to utilize his ties in the entertainment industry and use this event to continue raising funds for the election. Deadline reports that the Center for Responsive Politics says Booker …
Read More »Built to Last: American Express and Elaine Welteroth Launch a 'Vodcast' to Celebrate Black-Owned Small Businesses
Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole, left, and Built to Last host Elaine Welteroth.Image: American Express Buying Black may be more on-trend than ever, but how do we celebrate and sustain Black businesses to ensure they’re built to last? A new video podcast series by American Express aims to do exactly …
Read More »On TV, Having Wealth Means You Get to Suffer Beautifully
Like Big Little Lies and other shows about flawed people of means, The Undoing soon punctures its protagonists’ facade to critique their many privileges. The morning after a school fundraiser, a young financial-aid student at Reardon discovers that his mother, a working-class artist named Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis), has …
Read More »Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed To Supreme Court
On Monday evening (October 26), the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the Associated Press reports. Barrett was confirmed by a slim 52-48 vote, along mostly party lines, with one Republican — Susan Collins of Maine — joining the chamber’s 47 Democrats in voting against …
Read More »Jaden Smith and LyftUp Announce Major Partnership
Following his parents’ lead in becoming a philanthropist, Jaden Smith and the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation have joined forces with LyftUp to donate $50,000 in ride share credits to help connect underserved communities to healthy groceries and clean water with reliable transportation. The contribution will be shared between …
Read More »Donald Trump Says Barack Obama is Neither “Handsome” Nor a “Good Speaker”
‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); During a rally Monday afternoon (Oct. 26) in Lititz, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump bizarrely suggested that the media is fixated on Barack Obama for being more handsome and more a prolific speaker than he is, saying that neither of that is true …
Read More »How This Attorney Created An E-Commerce Platform Dedicated To Clean Skincare Products
0 Image via Alisha Ford/Glory Skincare Side hustles have become increasingly popular to build wealth through other streams of income. For one attorney, her passion for finding skincare that worked for her dark complexion inspired her to create her brand as an answer to the lack of diversity she was …
Read More »LeBron James To Produce Doc On Tulsa Race Massacre
LeBron James is continuing to use his power for good. The NBA icon’s company Springhill Entertainment is producing a documentary on the 1919 Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacree. According to Variety, SpringHill is teaming with CNN on the project. Titled Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street, the film …
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