Photo: Delmaine Donson (Getty Images) A Black woman in Louisiana was fired for wearing her natural hair to work. And now her former employer is paying the price. As a result of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American Screening, LLC will pay Imani Jackson a $50,000 settlement. How […]
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Raven-Symoné has been famous since she was a child. This familiarity can make fans and trolls feel like they know her. To that end, the actress has found herself as the subject of intense backlash for her outspoken nature. The criticism has never been stronger than after an infamous 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah […]
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Raven-Symoné has been famous since she was a child. This familiarity can make fans and trolls feel like they know her. To that end, the actress has found herself as the subject of intense backlash for her outspoken nature. The criticism has never been stronger than after an infamous 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Oprah […]
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We live in a world with an extraordinary wealth gap. The Grand Canyon sized chasm between the super rich and the rest of us seems to grow larger every day. And for Black folks, that wealth gap only gets bigger. According to Bloomberg, in 2022, single Black women who’ve never been married hold “eight cents […]
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You can damn near set your watch to it: When a famous, successful Black person (usually a man) is accused of doing something heinous (usually to a woman), someone with an avatar of an African god and “3rdEye” in their screenname posts a lengthy, punctuation-free tweet or comment on how “dumb, deaf and blind” other […]
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You can damn near set your watch to it: When a famous, successful Black person (usually a man) is accused of doing something heinous (usually to a woman), someone with an avatar of an African god and “3rdEye” in their screenname posts a lengthy, punctuation-free tweet or comment on how “dumb, deaf and blind” other […]
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Ernie Hudson during a photo call for the cast of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, at Claridges, London, on Thursday March 21, 2024.Photo: Lucy North/PA Images (Getty Images) They say age ain’t nothing but a number, but for these Black celebs over 60, age is just one drop in the bucket to all the talent, beauty, age, […]
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