Actor Delroy Lindo has the perfect response in a fictionalized debate about the so-called double standard, in which it’s OK for Black people to use the N-word but white people can’t. The video clip went viral on Instagram. According to Meaww.com, the clip is from the CBS show The Good …
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COVID-19 has caused unspeakable pain within our community here in New Orleans and across the globe. With the infections of so many that we love, it became alarmingly clear that our initial assumptions about this virus were misguided; no race, gender, age, or social station is immune. With the fastest …
Read More »Oprah Winfrey speaks during Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour on February 22, 2020, in San Francisco, California. Photo: Steve Jennings (Getty Images) We have more news of celebrities going beyond empty platitudes and using their financial privilege to pay it forward. Oprah has pledged to donate $10 …
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Tennis-Icon Ping-Pong: If I wanted to see Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras play tennis right now, plenty of classic matches are available for viewing. So what I’d rather see, if they’re up for it, is a table-tennis match. A regulation table is nine feet long––enough for social distancing! Of course, …
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Erykah Badu thrilled her fans with a live-streamed quarantine concert Sunday (March 5) night. She started packing the virtual house long before her performance went live, and she didn’t disappoint! It was the artist’s second installment for what she is calling an interactive “Quarantine Concert Series.” The concert featured the …
Read More »Screenshot: Facebook Remember the Detroit bus driver who went off in a Facebook video on a woman who was coughing on his bus? On Wednesday, just two weeks after the incident, the driver, Jason Hargrove, died from COVID-19, according to the Detroit News. In a nearly nine-minute video posted on …
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Leaked notes from an internal Amazon meeting attended by leadership, including founder Jeff Bezos, discussed a plan to smear fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls, labeling him “not smart or articulate” in an effort to make him “the face of the entire union/organizing movement.” “He’s not smart, or articulate, and to …
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As the cases of coronavirus exponentially grow, scientists are starting to gather more data about which populations it’s affecting the most. While technically the virus can affect anyone, at any time, new data shows that Black people have been most affected. A new report from ProPublica concludes that, as COVID-19 …
Read More »Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) In news that shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, black and brown workers were disproportionately hit by job losses last month, according a report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In the Employment Situation report (pdf) for March released on Friday, the U.S. saw …
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