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On Monday (June 20), workers rallied with organized labor to protest systemic racism and economic inequality. Tens of thousands of employees from the service industry, fast-food chains, and the gig economy in 160 cities walked off the job for the “Strike for Black Lives” in order to seek better treatment …

In 1974, Beverely Johnson became the first Black woman on the cover of Vogue magazine but the supermodel had to deal with endless racism in the fashion industry to break that barrier.  She recently opened up about a disturbing incident at a photoshoot when she was a model on the …

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) You know, seeing police officers throw temper tantrums over people asking them to try to avoid killing Black people as much as possible only further amplifies the fact that they may not be the right people for this job. The commissioner for the New York …

Many shows are on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic still devastating many parts of the country. However, BRAVOS’s popular series, Real Housewives Of Atlanta, is currently very much in production. Kandi Burruss told Extra the show is shooting during COVID-19 but taking the necessary precautions to keep everyone on …

This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and The Marshall Project. On September 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club. Michelle, …

Grown-ish actress Yara Shahidi can check off yet another accomplishment! Shahidi is taking her talents to the production side and is growing within her relationship with ABC Studios.  Deadline reports that the 20-year-old and her mother Keri Shahidi have inked a deal with ABC’s Disney Television Studios unit “to develop …

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Share0 Image via Nick F. Nelson/Brandpreneur The energy sector has a diversity problem and has reported having trouble recruiting women and minorities with expansive backgrounds in technology, engineering, or mathematics. According to a policy study done by Columbia University, women represent between 22% to 34% of the workforce in the …

Screenshot: First Coast News YouTube On Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations announced that one of the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery is also being investigated by state and local police for a possible sex crime violation. William ‘Roddie’ Bryan Jr.—the man who recorded the viral …

Joe Pinsker, a writer on our Family team, makes the case: “The wave of young adults who have recently relocated is a symptom of a grave economic and public-health catastrophe, but living at home is not in and of itself a bad thing.” A lot of Americans could lose their …