Plus, online retailer Shein faces criticism for selling an anti-Semitic necklace and Muslim prayer mats as decorative carpets. Patrick Starrr. These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Friday.…
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Black, female entrepreneurs are changing Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO – In the early days of Zume Pizza, visitors to Julia Collins’ robotic food prep company in Silicon Valley would greet her at the door and say, “Can you grab…
Inside historic black bookstores’ fight for survival against the COVID-19 pandemic
OAKLAND, Calif. – Inside Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest black-owned bookstore, no one lingers anymore over shelves lined with a diasporic collection of African and African American history, culture, music and…
Stop hate speech and harassment of Black users
T’Nae Parker, a Black activist who’s been on Facebook since college, almost always has the app open on her phone, spending hours each day helping her community in South Carolina – that…
‘Black Panther’ & ‘Just Mercy, HBO’s ‘Watchmen’, Apple’s ‘The Banker’, FX’s Atlanta’, ‘Selma’ & More
Click here to read the full article. UPDATED with more networks: Several broadcast and cable networks are commemorating Juneteenth on Friday by offering special programming to celebrate the holiday, which…
Terry Crews Panned Online For His Cautionary Tweet On Black Lives Matter
Terry Crews again faced heated criticism on Tuesday over a tweet about the possible direction of the Black Lives Matter movement. “If you are a child of God, you are…
A ‘war room’ that arms Black and Latino voters against disinformation
Umarah Mughnee, from left, Ashley Bryant and Aja Campbell of Win Black/Pa’Lante. (KIrk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) As the internet lit up last month with prominent Latinos vowing to…
Stop Scrolling and Start Following These Black Roller Skaters
Photo credit: Pete Kotzbach From ELLE Quarantine Internet has inspired us to do so much: Buy tie-dye; bake bread; question whether, actually, everything is cake; and, maybe most adventurously, try…