Hollywood has long been a hostile place for Black actors, a trend that has only recently started to shift. But for Leonard Roberts, who starred in the first season of the 2006 hit series Heroes, experience with racism on set nearly sidelined his career. In a guest essay for Variety, …
Read More »Bank of America and Her Agenda Founder Partner to Educate Millennial Women About Homeownership
Understanding that homeownership is one key in creating generational wealth, Rhonesha Byng is teaching millennial women how to become homeowners through a new online series in partnership with Bank of America. Byng is the founder and CEO of Her Agenda, a digital media platform providing career-driven women resources to advance …
Read More »NCAA to Argue Student-Athletes Shouldn’t Get Paid Before the Supreme Court
Photo: Jonathan Weiss (Shutterstock) The Supreme Court has agreed to take on an antitrust case that could either tighten or substantially loosen the limits of how much student-athletes are allowed to be paid. This will be the first time in over 30 years the court will rule on a case …
Read More »How to Make a Sad Holiday a Little Merrier
Indirect questions yield a somewhat different story, however. A 2015 Healthline survey revealed that more than 18 percent of people say they are very stressed during the holidays, and another nearly 44 percent say they are somewhat stressed. Similarly, a 2006 survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a polling firm, …
Read More »Joshua Feat’s Independent Autopsy Results To Be Released
Civil right attorney Ben Crump is expected to release independent autopsy results that may confirm Joshua Feast was shot in the back by police. According to the Star Tribune, during a Tuesday press conference, Crump said the results would be released on Wednesday (December 16) at New Life Church in …
Read More »Congress Adds Stimulus Checks To $900 Billion Relief Package As Congress Closes In On Deal
Congressional leaders are closing in on a second coronavirus relief package that will include direct stimulus payments and a $300 federal unemployment benefit. The bill, however, won’t include liability protections or aid to state and local governments, according to CNBC. Disagreements over those two issues have continued and lawmakers have …
Read More »Public Service Announcement: Tenet Is Not Going to Make Any More Sense Upon a Second Watch
Image: Warner Bros. Warning: Light spoilers for Tenet will follow. Back in September, my roommate and I drove a half-hour to the closest drive-in to watch Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, Tenet. My initial feelings on the film could be boiled down to “Fuck yeah! But what, what actually happened?” Yesterday, I …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Ron Klain Saw It Coming
I called Klain the other day to ask him how he knew, to such a granular degree, that the Trump-Fauci relationship would go sideways. “We knew already that Trump has a style of governing that rejects facts and that demands that people see the world his way, that they live …
Read More »Disney+ ‘Soul’: Questlove Talks The Idea Of Reincarnation
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Read More »Protected: Black Enterprise/Equitable Alliance Helps Advance The Black Community Over Five Decades
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