Google CEO Sundar Pichai is apologizing for his company’s handing of the termination of its chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher, a Black woman who raised concerns about racism in algorithms. Pichai, in a memo published by Axios, claimed Dr. Timnit Gebru was not fired as she has claimed, but pledged …
Read More »All 50 States Have Certified Their Election Results Setting The Table For Biden’s Win
All 50 states and the District of Columbia have certified their presidential election results, confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential win. West Virginia was the last state to certify its results on Dec. 8, giving outgoing President Trump its five electoral votes. President-elect Biden is projected to win 306 votes while …
Read More »Black Farmers, Civil Groups ‘Enraged’ After Joe Biden Selects Tom Vilsack Over Rep. Marcia Fudge to Head USDA
Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP (Getty Images) Black farming and civil rights groups are giving President-elect Joe Biden an earful about his decision to bring former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack back to head up the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a job he held for eight years under former President Barack Obama. According …
Read More »The 10 Best Films of 2020
Searchlight pictures 6. Nomadland In her first three films, Chloé Zhao has documented America on the margins, telling the stories of people trying to carve out an existence in the hostile modern West (if you haven’t seen her previous film, The Rider, there’s no time like the present to catch …
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Read More »Business Coach Pasha Carter on Her Journey From Sleeping on Best Friend’s Floor to NFL Cheerleader to Millionaire
Pasha Carter took a $500 investment and turned it into a multi-million-dollar empire. Carter started her career in direct sales at the age of 23. Today, she is recognized as one of the most influential direct sales leaders, ranked in the “Top 15 Female Networkers In The World” out of …
Read More »Feds Join Probe Into Police Killing of Casey Goodson, Who Family Says Was Shot While Carrying a Sandwich
Photo: Eric Glenn (Shutterstock) The FBI and the Department of Justice will join the Columbus police investigation into the police killing of Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man who was fatally shot last week in Columbus, Ohio by a sheriff’s deputy. U.S. Attorney David DeVillers announced federal authorities’ involvement …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: America’s Only Real Quarantine
+ Americans remain bad at quarantining. And most states remain bad at enforcing such guidelines. The one exception? Hawaii. Its strategy has paid off, Olga Khazan writes. JULIAN MONTAGUE One question, answered: A reader named Cris writes in from Ohio: Is it okay to bake for my neighbors during the …
Read More »Joe Biden And Kamala Harris Met With Black Leaders
After nearly four years of civil rights leaders being ignored by the Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris had a nearly two-hour meeting with a group of prominent Black leaders. The president-elect was joined by NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP’s Derrick Johnson, President and …
Read More »#CrybabyTrump Trends On Twitter as President Trump Cries About Election Fraud
President Donald Trump has been extremely busy since the election ended. Instead of trying to get the economy back on track or prepare the US for the coronavirus vaccine currently waiting for approval and distribution, he has been busy trying to overturn the 2020 election results. With the many lawsuits …
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