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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 …

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 …

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 …

📚 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada sued her co-star Ogom “OG” Chijindu back in October 2019 for defamation, and now, OG is clapping back. According to TMZ, Chijindu claims Lozada has a bad habit of suing people and that the defamation lawsuit she filed against her triggered a medical scare. RELATED: …

Their intergenerational exchange is smugly combative and made all the more fascinating by the obvious allusions to the real-life showrunner Mara Brock Akil, the Girlfriends and The Game creator for whom Waithe once worked. The scene is also one of the more self-aware moments on Twenties, an uneven satire that …

It’s interesting what you can find when you go through the lineage of your ancestry. Halle Berry, however, isn’t too thrilled about one of her family tree connections. Via Twitter, the celebrity news account Daily Blast LIVE tweeted that the legendary actress is “distant relatives” with former Alaskan governor and …