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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
TechCrunch· 9 hours agoA prime example of this divide was the response to startup Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang’s post on...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoSince summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter has been in the spotlight for spearheading the movement against police brutality. Co-founder Patrisse Cullors spoke to The Guardian ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMany Americans have celebrated it annually for more than a century, even though the holiday was not...
Ty Dolla $ign Doesn’t ‘Give a F—‘ About Ye’s Controversies: He’s the ‘Best Artist of This...
Billboard via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe phrase is one that was adopted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups in response to the Black...
Mike Bloomberg backs Biden with $20 million contribution against Trump
Reuters· 3 days agoBillionaire Mike Bloomberg has given nearly $20 million to help Democratic President Joe Biden's...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 6 days agoOn Thursday, the three leaders of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation addressed the controversy that has surrounded the organization over the last month. When it was revealed in April ...
How did Juneteenth get its name? The story behind the holiday's title
CBS News· 5 days agoJune 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States...
Ted Cruz’s Totally Outrageous “Proof” That the KKK Loves Democrats
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Southern Strategy was essentially a role reversal that stoked racial divisions and fearmongery...
David Oyelowo’s Long Obsession with the Real-Life Bass Reeves Finally Yielded a Groundbreaking...
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnd it enables us to keep on doing what we actually want to do, because there is a token of this...
Jazz, justice and Juneteenth: Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson join forces to honor Black protest
theGrio via AOL· 5 days agoSome historians even consider jazz singer Billie Holiday’s 1939 rendition of “Strange Fruit,” an anti-lynching poem by Abel Meeropol, one of the catalysts of the Civil Rights Movement ...