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BLACK ENTERPRISE — which is the premier multimedia resource for African American entrepreneurs and business leaders — and The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) announced that a Town Hall series will consist of seven virtual roundtable sessions featuring top corporate executives, entrepreneurs, civil rights activists and social thought leaders. A press …

Director CJ Hunt in PBS POV documentary The Neutral Ground (2021)Photo: Courtesy of PBS POV Here at The Root, we’ve provided exhaustive coverage on the ongoing fight in connection with the removal of Confederate monuments across the nation. The pushback against this glorification of inherently racist symbols has finally gotten …

Read: On Chandler Bing’s job But the Friends special is not merely a cast reunion. It is also an advertisement for the show’s move to HBO Max. Any good ad will feature testimonials, and much of this one is dedicated to the argument that Friends is a really good sitcom. …

Two-time Tony-nominated actor, Samuel E. Wright, who loaned his Trinidadian-accented voice to the Sebastian the Crab character in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, has died. The Hollywood Reporter  reports that the 74-year-old died on Monday (May 24) at his Walden, New York home. His daughter Dee Kelly told the …

Amy Cooper, who came to be known across social media as “Central Park Karen” after she called 911 and lied about being threatened by a Black bird watcher in Central Park last year, is suing her former employer Franklin Templeton for firing her after the incident. According to Bloomberg, Cooper …

Reality star and mogul Kim Kardashian is accused by maintenance staff of violating California labor laws and is now responding to the allegations, which include not paying overtime, not allowing meal breaks and overworking a 16-year-old. A spokesperson for Kardashian told Page Six, “These workers were hired and paid through …

Reuters – At least eight people were killed when a transit employee began shooting at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday morning, the county sheriff’s office said. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Deputy Russell Davis said at a news conference the gunman was also dead. The gunman …

Photo: BestStockFoto (Shutterstock) An Illinois city has hired a private attorney to investigate its police department over the death of Eric Lurry while in police custody a little over a year ago. According to CBS News, city leaders in Joliet agreed to hire the attorney to investigate the Joliet Police …

A brief filed to the Ohio Supreme Court by lawyers for the mother of police shooting victim Tamir Rice, seeks to bar the policeman who shot him from becoming an officer again. The policeman, Timothy Loehmann, who was fired in 2017 when it was discovered he lied on his job …