America’s wealthiest Black man Robert Smith says corporations have a much bigger obligation in addressing inequalities in society and that many of them profited from hundreds of years of slave trading. That said, Smith, during an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday (August 12), believes large companies should provide reparations …
Read More »Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Today I learned that there are, literally, over a thousand Confederate symbols on public land all over America. In recent years, calls have grown for these glorified participation trophies to be removed, calls that have only grown louder in the wake of George Floyd’s death …
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Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Christopher Lee / VII / Redux Jared Kushner is the second-most-powerful man in the White House. …
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Mahalia Jackson, known to many as the Queen of Gospel, is getting the big screen biopic treatment. Jill Scott will play Jackson in Mahalia!, produced by Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx. This is the second film about Jackson that’s been announced in the past week. A television biopic about the …
Read More »Photo: MBI (UK (Shutterstock) As long as pay disparities for Black women continue, inevitably so will the respectability politics that insist that we are somehow culpable for those inequities—you know, the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that is the hallmark of so many of America’s suppressive policies and …
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Jared Kushner, the second-most-powerful man in the White House, is quite a bit smarter than the most powerful man, his father-in-law, the president. Donald Trump possesses a genius for the jugular, but he evinces few other signs of intelligence. He certainly displays no capacity, or predisposition, to learn. His son-in-law, …
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Rob Kardashian is back! The reality star revealed his slimmed down body at his sister Khloe Kardashian’s 36th birthday in June, however now he’s posting more photos of himself after fans gushed over his new fizique. The 33-year-old shared an Instagram selfie of himself on Wednesday (August 12) all masked …
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Diversity within the fashion industry has been an ongoing fight for many Black professionals across the field. This week, the industry saw major progress when the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced that CaSandra Diggs would be appointed as the company’s new CEO. According to the CDFA website, Diggs …
Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay and Doug E. Fresh are some of the big names involved in weekend events this weekend.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Jason Kempin (Getty Images) As summer winds down, the nation’s COVID-19 crisis continues to wage on. Despite the desire to break the …
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In March of this year, as the coronavirus and its effects were unfolding, Dakota Resources, a 24-year-old community development financial institution (CDFI) in Renner, South Dakota, launched a series of Zoom coffee breaks for people from across the state. Every morning, at 10:30, a few dozen people logged in to …
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