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200 of Silicon Valley’s Diverse Executives and Influencers Meet to Highlight Inclusion-Driven Innovation
Culture Shift Labs, founded by Andrea Hoffman, an authority on inclusion-driven innovation, collaborated with Denmark West, a partner at Connectivity Capital Partners, to bring together 200 senior executives, venture capitalists, innovators and accomplished entrepreneurs of color in California’s Silicon Valley for two days of collaborating, deal making and fostering of game-changing growth. With Google as…
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Motherwit: Onnie Lee Logan’s 4 Decades as a Midwife in Ala.
One March day in 1984, Onnie Lee Logan received a letter from the Mobile, Ala., County Board of Health, telling her that her services were no longer required and that her license to practice as a midwife was revoked with immediate effect. The letter thanked her for her 38 years of faithful service to the…
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Watch: NYC Police Officers Bind Man’s Hands and Feet, Throw Him in Body Bag
In a disturbing video made public this week, New York City police officers are shown physically restraining a man by placing him in a head-to-toe enclosed body bag. The video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, shows an African-American man with his hands, feet and legs bound, lying facedown on the ground near a subway station…
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Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy of A Different World Reunite On-Screen
These days, the throwback is de rigueur on television, and it’s no different with the Disney Channel’s K.C. Undercover, which will soon reunite A Different World’s Dwayne Wayne with his paramour Whitley Gilbert, according to TVLine.com. K.C. Undercover, now in its second season, stars the darling Zendaya as K.C. Cooper, a high school student training to follow…
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Watch: Don Lemon Goes Off on Omarosa for Skirting Donald Trump Question
CNN anchor Don Lemon, never one to back down from controversy or a good confrontation, was in top form Friday as he mixed it up with former The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault over Donald Trump—or, more precisely, the fact that Omarosa chose not to directly answer a question about Trump’s tweet about Republican presidential candidate…
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Bernie Sanders Takes Wash., Hawaii, Alaska
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary Clinton in three Democratic presidential contests this Saturday, the New York Times confirms. Former Secretary of State Clinton still maintains a decent delegate lead over the senator, but Sanders is still very much alive in the race, with the contests giving his campaign the momentum and funds necessary to continue…
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An Opera for a Jazz Virtuoso: The Apollo Theater Honors Charlie Parker
The rich, buttery tenor of Lawrence Brownlee soars as if it’s on wings in the opening aria “Birdland.” He is channeling bebop genius Charlie Parker, whose life is at the center of the opera Charlie Parker’s Yardbird—co-produced by the Apollo Theater and Opera Philadelphia. It is set in New York City’s iconic Birdland jazz club…
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Tyler Perry Slams Ga. Anti-Gay Bill
Tyler Perry is the latest in a throng of celebrity and media voices to condemn Georgia’s recent anti-gay bill. In a statement released Friday, the media mogul and actor’s TP Studios called on the state’s governor to veto it. A spokesperson for the company—whose 200,000-square-foot complex is in Atlanta—encouraged Republican Gov. Nathan Deal to reject a…
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Chris Christie Demands Return of Assata Shakur From Cuba (Again)
Possibly in a quest to stay relevant after his failed presidential bid, or maybe to fend off calls for his resignation, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called on President Barack Obama to demand the extradition of Assata Shakur, a woman who, depending on your perspective, is either an activist hero and political prisoner or a…
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Alicia Keys to Join The Voice as Coach
Singers Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus will be coaching contestants on the NBC singing competition The Voice, according to a Twitter announcement Friday. “RT to welcome #AliciaAndMiley as our coaches for season 11! #TheVoice,” the official Twitter page for the show wrote. The two will get their very own spinning chairs alongside longtime coaches Adam…
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