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McDonald’s has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit with former Oakland A’s outfielder and Black franchisee Herb Washington, who owned and operated 14 restaurants. Washington was previously the fast-food chain’s largest Black franchisee in the country — at one point owning 23 McDonald’s restaurants. When he filed his lawsuit, Washington owned …

Photo: achinthamb (Shutterstock) Civil rights regulators in California are investigating the treatment of Black women at the parent company of Google, Alphabet Inc, after alleged incidents of harassment and discrimination occurred, according to Reuters. Black women who have worked for the company have been interviewed by attorneys at the California …

Editor’s note: This week’s newsletter is a rerun. We’ll be back with a fresh newsletter soon. In dozens of novels written over a decades-long career, the romance writer Jackie Collins sharply observed the role of sex and power in Hollywood. She wrote incisively about abuse in the industry and empowered …

The city of Boston settled for $1.3 million with a man who had a stroke, but was instead arrested without police, EMT or hospital staff giving him aid. It’s one of the largest settlements of its type, according to Boston public radio station WBUR. Al Copeland, 62, was driving in …

CISE founder and CEO Blake Van Putten is the mastermind behind building a stronger community thread by thread through his apparel company. Lined with three simple words — “Protect Black People,” CISE purses have become more than just a fashion statement in society, but a meaningful message in response to the …

Photo: Leonard Zhukovsky (Shutterstock) Boy, these cops must be getting dumber, or they just love arresting the wrong person. Stephen Keith, a 32-year-old Black U.S. Navy veteran in San Diego, California was attacked last year. But, instead of running after the attacker, he called the police according to The San …

Phylis Mitchell is a woman who is transformed, through the magic of the holidays, into a drill sergeant. Early on in The Christmas House, an already classic Hallmark rom-com, she enlists her husband and two adult sons in her mission to revive an old family tradition: creating the aggressively festive …

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After a deadly series of tornadoes destroyed homes and many lives in the Midwest and South, Kentucky authorities were searching for Nyssa Brown, 13, who was confirmed missing during the recovery efforts. Now, according to the Lexington Herald Leader, Brown, the final person in Bowling Green, KY, unaccounted for,  has …

Travis Scott arrives for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, September 12, 2021.Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP (Getty Images) Whether or not you agree that Travis Scott is primarily responsible for the mass casualty event that took place at his Astroworld festival last month, it …