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Why Entrepreneurs Need to Approach Social Media Like Athletes and Celebrities
Social media is such a valuable tool — for everyone. Celebrities and athletes use it to stay connected to their fans and entrepreneurs need to have the same approach when it comes to building a following. I spent five years playing professional baseball — three years with the Seattle Mariners …
Read More »Students Protest Firing of Arkansas Teacher Who Called Lawmakers Out for Being Fragile AF Over 1619 Project Curriculum
Screenshot: 5 News Where You Live A Rogers, Arkansas, educator has been fired for committing the egregious offense of…calling out Republicans from his state for being the fragile white nationalists that they absolutely are. Specifically, the now-former teacher from the Arkansas Arts Academy was terminated for sending a justifiably angry …
Read More »Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
This article was published online on February 6, 2021. Last February, on a sunny afternoon in West Hollywood, two girls with precise eye makeup paused on Melrose Avenue and peered in the windows of a building whose interior was painted a bright, happy pink. Two pink, winged unicorns flanked racks …
Read More »Watch: Sunny Hostin And Ana Navarro Grill Van Jones
Political commentator Van Jones appeared on The View this morning (Feb. 5) to discuss a documentary he executive produced with Meghan McCain called The Reunited States. The other co-hosts, however, didn’t let him get away with just promoting his film: he was also held accountable for his past statements about …
Read More »The View’s Sunny Hostin Gathered CNN’s Van Jones, Twitter Users Applauded Her
Van Jones’s appearance on a popular ABC Network morning show set Twitter abuzz with a succinct– yet powerful read from the program’s co-host Sunny Hostin. On Friday’s episode of The View, Hostin held Jones’s feet to the fire over past comments he made supporting former President Donald Trump’s alleged plan for Black …
Read More »28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 6: Queen Latifah's Nature of A Sista' (1991)
Image: Queen Latifah “Nature of A Sista’” (Tommy Boy Records) The album cover for Queen Latifah’s sophomore album, Nature Of A Sista’, is a much better take on the album cover for her debut, All Hail the Queen. Where All Hail the Queen had her standing in a stately, militaristic-ish …
Read More »Friendship and Stonework Grow More Beautiful With Time
I heard about Jane building walls, and I had some tumbledown walls on my property, so I tried to get in touch with her. Jane DeWitt: I was in my late 20s or early 30s then. It was about 13 years ago. I had come to the idea that stonework …
Read More »Jamaica Is Running Low On Marijuana Due To COVID-19
Jamaica is experiencing a marijuana shortage due to the effects of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. The Caribbean nation’s illegal market is being affected the most. According to TMZ, hurricane season wrecked weed fields and the ensuing drought made matters worse. “It destroyed everything,” Daneyel Bozra, who grows marijuana …
Read More »Pandemic Leads Black “Mogul Minds” to Start Toilet Paper Company
While it seemed everyone rushed to stock up on toilet paper at the start of the pandemic, a group of Black men saw it as an opportunity to launch a startup that brings a new toilet tissue line to the market. Five Black men from Ohio, who call themselves “mogul …
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