“We need a detailed, pandemic-induced financial crisis plan, that forestalls bankruptcies and insolvencies where possible, without causing downstream crises,” writes John Cochrane, an economist at the University of Chicago. “Yes, you heard it here, judiciously targeted bailouts are really the only way I can think of to keep businesses and …
Read More »Vanessa Bryant’s Daughter Natalia Resurfaces On Social Media
Vanessa Bryant is finding joy through the grief after the tragic death of her husband and daughter Gianna. On Sunday (March 8), Vanessa posted a picture on Instagram of her smiling 17-year-old daughter Natalia in front of a mural that features her late husband, Kobe and daughter, Gianna. Vanessa wrote …
Read More »Halle Berry Is Related to Sarah Palin But Says Political Pundit/ Personality Is ‘Not Invited to the Cookout’
Halle Berry took to social media to throw shade at her distant relative, Sarah Palin.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) While some of us believe we got Indian in our families, most of surely have fools swinging off the trees. When it comes to Oscar winner Halle Berry, the latter is …
Read More »A Warning to Politically Ambitious Billionaires
Michael Bloomberg, another billionaire, ran an even costlier campaign for the presidency. According to Politico, the former New York mayor spent in excess of $500 million before dropping out of the race this week and endorsing Joe Biden. That amount of money is in the range of what it costs …
Read More »Former NY Knick Stephon Marbury Backs Spike Lee In Feud
Former NBA star Stephon Marbury is siding with Spike Lee in the filmmaker’s feud with New York Knicks team’s owner, James Dolan. The famed filmmaker and longtime fan of the franchise is boycotting Madison Square Garden after he was denied from using an entrance he had been using for 28 …
Read More »Black Lives Matter Founders Grace Cover of Time 100 Women of The Year Issue
Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi grace the cover of Time 100 Women commemorating the year 2013, when the hasthtag #BlackLivesMatter went viral. Photo: TIME Today is International Women’s Day and to commemorate the occasion, TIME magazine has released a special double issue featuring 100 …
Read More »The Books Briefing: <em>Gender Equality</em> Is Valuable but Vague
📚 The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, by Jill Filipovic A timely, dynamic examination of women and power “The Female Persuasion is about graduating from college and finding one’s way in the world … It’s also about … learning how to be a feminist now, in the 21st …
Read More »This Day in Black History: March 7, 1965
On this day in 1965, an estimated 600 voting and civil rights activists began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol of Montgomery in protest of the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was fatally shot three weeks prior by a state trooper while trying to protect …
Read More »Working While Black: Winning Against Microaggression On The Job
Microaggression, brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights and insults toward any group, are an established occupational hazard for black women executives in corporate America. At the 2020 Women of Power Summit now happening in Las …
Read More »Kamala Harris Endorses Joe Biden While Jesse Jackson Backs Bernie Sanders
Kamala Harris, who took Joe Biden to task during a forceful debate-stage exchange in June, has come out to endorse him for the Democratic presidential nomination.Photo: Paul Sancya (Associated Press) What a difference a few months make. On Sunday, former presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said she would do “everything in …
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