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U.S. President Donald Trump the week the House of Representatives passed the latest economic stimulus package that was passed earlier in the week by the U.S. Senate giving roughly 484 billion to restart a small business loan program and give more money for health care providers and virus testing. (Photo …

Share0 Image via @brianleemarketing/Instagram Black professionals in corporate business structures are notoriously cut out of senior-level positions and opportunities to move higher. For Fortune 500 companies, less than 1% of CEOs are black with only 3% of Black professionals holding executive and senior manager level roles. This awareness has elevated …

(Credit: Christian Jackson) Black Lives Matter has been a part of the public consciousness for years but the death of George Floyd has galvanized the movement into a primal scream. But students at Loyola Marymount University didn’t want just their voices to be heard. Brothers of Consciousness, an on-campus Black …

Photo: Jamie McCarthy (Getty Images) Jimmy Kimmel has had a really interesting week, and it’s only Tuesday. The late-night talk show host announced Thursday that he will take a leave of absence from his ABC show starting in July in order to spend time with his family. While he’s on hiatus, …

I first encountered Erik Seidel the way many poker newbies do. I was watching Rounders, the 1998 Matt Damon movie about a brilliant law student who pays his way through school with his poker prowess, and in the end quits law altogether to play full-time. In several scenes, a real-life …

Breonna Taylor might be alive today if a judge had done her job with more scrutiny, a Louisville councilwoman argues. According to reports, Judge Mary Shaw gave approval for five deadly no-knock warrants in 12 minutes in relation to the drug bust that Taylor had no involvement with, but which …

Larry BrownScreenshot: Fox 55 (YouTube) Larry Brown (the Indiana council member not the former NBA coach) is a goddamn idiot. He knows it, the people of Indiana know it and now “you ain’t even got no job, cause you triflin’.” During a county council meeting on June 18, District Four …

Ja Rule’s history of using his likeness for advertisements isn’t great (see: Fyre Festival). That said, he’s taking a step in the right direction with his newest ad. The New York native’s commercial for Papa Cristo’s Greek Deli, a Los Angeles-based greek restaurant, went viral over the weekend for its …

Two black banks—Industrial Bank and Citizens Trust Bank—have each received $5 million in grants from financial services giant Morgan Stanley. Cynthia N. Day, President & CEO of Citizens Trust Bank and Citizens Bancshares Corp. The $10 million in grants to the minority depository institutions (MDIs) will allow them to build …

Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS (AFP via Getty Images) In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory against American Airlines for just being flat out racist. Three years later, the airline is now facing a lawsuit because a flight attendant just couldn’t stop her inner Karen from hopping out. NBC News reports …