(Reuters) – U.S. corporations are fighting harder this year to keep activist shareholder proposals off the ballot at their annual meetings, partly because of a proliferation of investor demands for racial justice reforms. The trend shows the high stakes for the acting head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, …
Read More »Horizon: Zero Dawn Among the 10 Free Games PlayStation Is Offering as Part of Play at Home Initiative
Image: PlayStation Studios What it do, blerds? There is nothing more I love than saving you good folks some money. Well, that’s a lie; my love for DC Comics is deep, and goddammit, it’s real. Saving us both some coin is a close second, though, and Sony came through this …
Read More »7 Employees Placed On Leave After Man Dies While In Jail
An internal administrative investigation has been called by Texas Rangers for seven employees of the Collin County Detention Center in Mckinney, Texas after a man died in their custody. The employees have been placed on leave. On Sunday (March 14), 26-year-old Marvin D. Scott III of Frisco, Texas was apprehended …
Read More »Networking in 2021: Does the Pandemic Have to Change the Way We Network
If this were a “normal” year, one where many would have been heading out to any and all professional networking events to start looking for connections and resources for the goals, resolutions, and aspirations set at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, COVID-19 still has halted the way we gather …
Read More »Put On Your Dancing Shoes and Get Ready to Be Transformed With This Week's Virtual Events
Photo: Paul Kolnik/Courtesy of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Another week, another gang of virtual events to get you through. If you’re anything like me and are still a bit hesitant about rushing outside just because Moneybagg Joe President Joe Biden has released the stimmys and the vaccines—don’t worry, I’ve …
Read More »A Gruesome Feeding Frenzy in the Atlantic Ocean
When Michalove returned to the whale again last week—this time with one of the shark biologists he works with, Greg Skomal of Massachusetts Marine Fisheries—even less of the whale remained. The calorie-rich blubber was mostly gone. Occasionally, Skomal told me, a feeding shark would puncture the abdominal cavity of the …
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Read More »Maryland Lawmakers Approve $577 Million HBCU Settlement
Maryland lawmakers approved a measure paying $577 million over 10 years to settle a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination and underfunding of the state’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The House approved the settlement with state HBCUs by a 120-14 vote to send the measure to Gov. Larry Hogan. The …
Read More »Kanye West is Now the Wealthiest Black Man in American History With $6.6 Billion Net Worth
‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Kanye West is now reportedly worth $6.6 billion dollars, which makes him the wealthiest Black man in American history. According to new reports, the 43-year-old rapper’s Yeezy sneaker and clothing company, which is valued between $3.2 billion and $4.7 billion, accounts for …
Read More »La, La, La, La, Kanye West Got His Money Right—Now Worth $6.6 Billion, Reportedly Richest Black Man in the U.S.
Kanye West speaks on stage at the “Kanye West and Steven Smith in Conversation with Mark Wilson” on November 07, 2019.Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company (Getty Images) Remember when Kanye West first burst into the mainstream scene and referred to himself as “Kanye Cheddar?” Well, now he has …
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