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Okayplayer/OkayAfrica CEO Resigns Amidst Toxic Workplace Allegations by Black Female Employees, Questlove Shares Company Statement
Several Black female employees and former employees came forward via Twitter to detail their experiences with a toxic working environment under Abiola Oke, the CEO and Publisher of the Okayplayer and OkayAfrica brands. A letter shared by the women who came forward—which includes former Music Editor Ivie Ani, former Marketing Manager Oyinkan Olojede and former…
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Kerry Washington Says Hollywood's Diversity Commitment 'Still Centers Whiteness'
The country is experiencing a racial awakening in response to the police brutality protests that are still taking place after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s deaths. Anti-racism books are flying off of shelves, streaming services have dedicated blocks of programming to Black shows and movies, and general interest in Black stories has risen for weeks.…
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#OscarsSoWhite Creator April Reign Is Launching a Digital Content Studio for People of Color
April Reign, well known as a diversity and inclusion advocate and the creator of #OscarsSoWhite, is partnering with the media platform Overture Global to start Ensemble, a digital content studio “aiming to accelerate opportunities for people of color both in front of and behind the camera,” according to a press release obtained by The Root.…
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Pittsburgh Paper Removed Police Brutality Stories, Then Republished Them With Pro-Cop Images
Staffers with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have been publicizing the disastrous, racist decision-making of top management, who last week sidelined two black journalists from reporting on the Black Lives Matter protests that have cropped up around the country. Their coverage ban reportedly expanded as dozens of staffers called out the paper and stood in solidarity with…
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Pittsburgh Paper Expands Reporting Ban to Reporters Who Stood With Black Journalists Banned From Protest Coverage
When it comes to the recent, nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests, there is a clear demarcation line between who is on the right and who is on the wrong side of history. The owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have picked their side—and it ain’t the right one. According to Post-Gazette energy reporter Anya…
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Narcissist-In-Chief Canceled the Coronavirus Press Briefing. Then Remembered There Were Cameras, So It’s Back On
Trump hates the media, unless they love him, and then he loves them back. So on Monday, with disinfectant-gate still a thing and the collective mouth full of four usable teeth that is Trump voters realizing that even they can’t get behind his idiotic suggestion that shooting up Lysol would help kill the coronavirus, Trump…
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‘I Am Not Going to Stop in Traffic for Two Black People’: White Man Pulled Gun on Two Black Women and 1-Year-Old After Car Accident
Every day people of the color redacted persuasion argue that racism in America is a thing of the past or, at the very least, a thing largely exaggerated by the media and by us disgruntled blacks. Yet every other day it seems we see recorded reports of unsuspecting black people walking into instances of blatant…
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How Did So Many People Get the Kobe Story So Wrong?
If you were a Kobe fan as much as I was, then you know that both he and Michael Jordan often repeated the now-famous Phil Jackson quote that characterized their superstar careers: “Let the game come to you.” As a perennial basketball benchwarmer, I never knew what that phrase meant until a barrage of alternative…
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Don Lemon Sued for Alleged Assault by New York Bartender, CNN Defends News Anchor [Corrected]
A New Jersey bartender has filed a lawsuit against CNN anchor Don Lemon for an alleged assault that took place in a Hamptons, N.Y., bar last summer. Filed on Sunday, the suit seeks unspecified damages for the “demeaning, unprovoked and offensive assault.” First reported by Mediaite, Dustin Hice claims Lemon assaulted him in July 2018…
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Supreme Court Will Hear Byron Allen's Racial Discrimination Suit Against Comcast
If you’re suing a person or company for racial discrimination, do you need to prove that race was the sole factor for the discrimination, or merely a contributing factor? That’s the legal decision the Supreme Court will soon decide. On Monday, the high court agreed to hear a case filed against Comcast, the country’s largest…