Georgia is the best state for black entrepreneurship–with Texas, Florida, California, and North Carolina rounding out the top five–according to FitSmallBusiness.com, which recently compiled the list. The study found that the top-ranking states had high numbers of African American-owned businesses as well as fair average corporate tax rates. With black-owned …
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Queen and Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith and her husband Joshua Jackson are truly in marital bliss. A video on Turner-Smith’s Instagram page shows her singing the Dawson’s Creek theme song in Home Depot. Jackson played Pacey Witter on Dawson’s Creek from 1998 to 2003. “You couldn’t write this,” Turner-Smith wrote …
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Best Tech DealsBest Tech DealsThe best tech deals from around the web, updated daily. Apple MacBook Air (2019) 256GB | $1,000 | Amazon Apple’s new MacBook Air is currently down to its lowest price ever. Gizmodo says that while it’s a little on the boring side, it’s a solid option …
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NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away yesterday morning at 101 years old. Taraji P. Henson, who played her in the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, honored her on social media. Henson wrote on her Instagram, “Thank you QUEEN #KatherineJohnson for sharing your intelligence, poise, grace and beauty with the world! Because …
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I’d seen rich and poor America before, of course: the endless suburban wealth in places such as Atlanta, Georgia, and Austin, Texas, as well as the deprivation of Clarksdale, Mississippi. But the contrast between deindustrialized Youngstown, Ohio and reimagined Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just an hour apart, told the story of America’s …
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Snoop Dogg went viral after he attacked Gayle King in a social media video for asking WNBA player Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant’s past sexual assault allegations following his death. Now the rapper is speaking out on Jada Pinkett Smith‘s Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch. Snoop explained his rant …
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BET’s Madison Gray is covering all the action live from the debate floor in Charleston, South Carolina. Follow the live coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET on all CBS stations and BET. ___________________________________________________________ The End…For Now Charleston, SC 7:06 PT/ 10:06 PM Thanks for joining us and stay with BET.com for more …
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Madam C.J. Walker made history as the first American woman to become a bona fide millionaire by her own doing in 1908 after selling her natural hair products for Black women. Now, her story is getting the respect it deserves on Netflix with the film Self Made: Inspired by the …
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Some Harvard University students have filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League, accusing the institution of benefiting from company investments in the prison system. Last week the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign filed a lawsuit against Harvard at the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts for their role in profiting from prison …
Read More »Sterling K. Brown in This Is UsPhoto: Ron Batzdorff (Courtesy of NBC) Just when I thought This Is Us had completely wrecked me, its beautiful emotional terror has found another hidden ventricle in my heart. As soon as I saw the title of Episode 415, “Clouds,” I knew I was …
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