Queen Latifah has announced that she’ll be collaborating with the American Lung Association for its first-ever livestream benefit, #Act4Impact where she will be the host. The event, that will raise money for the ALA COVID-19 Action Initiative, will take place on Sept 26. People reports that Latifah was drawn to …
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Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf told several Black employees during a Zoom meeting earlier this summer that the bank had trouble reaching diversity goals because there were not enough qualified minority talent. Two participants in the meeting told Reuters Scharf made the same comment in a company-wide memo on June …
Read More »Independent Autopsy Shows Dijon Kizzee Was Shot 15 Times by LA Deputies, 3 Shots Fired After He Was on the Ground, Attorneys Say
Debra Ray, the aunt of Dijon Kizzee, is hugged after speaking to protesters gathered at a makeshift memorial on September 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, at the location where Dijon Kizzee was shot and killed the previous day by Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies. Photo: Robyn Beck (Getty Images) Earlier this …
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Caroline: You argue that the president could use his powers to muddle the results, leaving no clear procedural winner. How so? Bart: Unlike baseball, elections have no umpire—no singular authority with the power to rule decisively on the results. The most significant risk is that Trump will ask Republican allies …
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Read More »This UK Entrepreneur Is Bringing His Haircare Line For Black Men To The US Market
0 Image via A&C Inc. Black haircare has become a lucrative business and more Black entrepreneurs have found ways to create more diversity for product selection when it comes to Afro-textured hair. Men’s haircare has also become a fast-growing niche with more black men looking for products to nourish their …
Read More »Advertisers and Social Media Companies Agree On Steps to Curb Hate Speech
Photo: Twin Design (Shutterstock) Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have come to an agreement with a collective of advertisers on steps to curb hate speech and other harmful content on their platforms. They’re baby steps but steps nonetheless, I suppose. According to Reuters, the move comes three months after the George …
Read More »RBG’s Fingerprints Are All Over Your Everyday Life
Read: What Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught me about being a stay-at-home dad Her litigation wasn’t about a series of isolated inequities, though: Ginsburg’s core argument was that “equal protection” under the law, as promised by the Fourteenth Amendment, covered discrimination based on sex. One unconventional but shrewd strategy she used …
Read More »Vanessa Bryant Releases Statement On Mother's Accusation
On a September 21 episode of Univision’s El Godra Y La Flaca, Sofia Laine, Vanesa Bryant’s mother, accused her daughter of kicking her out of her home and taking away her car. According to English translations, Laine said in Spanish while crying, “She told me, ‘I need you to get …
Read More »Kentucky Grand Jury Charges 1 of the 3 Officers Who Shot Breonna Taylor
A Kentucky grand jury has decided to press charges against just one of the three police officers who shot Breonna Taylor. The grand jury has decided to move forward with three counts of wanton endangerment against former detective Brett Hankison for fatally shooting Taylor the night of March 13, reports …
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