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MILAN (AP) — When luxury fashion lined up social media posts to show solidarity with Black Lives Matters protests, brands got a whole lot of blowback. Transgender model and actress Munroe Bergdorf called out L’Oreal’s #BlackoutTuesday posts, accusing the beauty brand of hypocrisy for having fired her three years ago when she tried to draw attention to racism. U.S. actor Tommy Dorfman, who appears in a recent campaign for Salvatore Ferragamo, called out the Italian luxury brand for what Dorfman called a “homophobic and racist work environment.” And ordinary Instagram followers piled on, challenging fashion houses to do more than…

A society of armed individuals carrying concealed weapons, who perceive strangers as attackers and have no duty to de-escalate, doesn’t make anyone more safe. Ad Policy The state capitol in Lincoln, Neb., on a sunny spring day. (Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Lincoln, Neb.—Last week—February 26—marked 12 years since the senseless and brutal killing of Trayvon Martin, an innocent 17-year-old Black boy, at the hands of a man who was acting as a vigilante. The memory of Trayvon has frequently been invoked by politicians as threats from gun violence and the national consciousness around racism have…

The UNLV University Libraries has completed digitization of the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, a newspaper primarily focused on reporting for the African American community in Las Vegas that was published from 1964 to 2013. “The Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice digitization was a high-priority project in our archives to provide online access to important primary sources from our region’s African American community,” said Cory Lampert, head of digital collections at the UNLV University Libraries. “UNLV is now able to provide readers and researchers with online access to the local voice of Las Vegas’s African American community in a free, online, globally accessible digital…

Culture is a moveable feast that always survives, travels well and ensures community.Mine came to Los Angeles from New Orleans, Louisiana. About This Series This story is part of an LAist series called Being American. It’s inspired by the success of our year-long Race In LA series, in which Angelenos shared personal stories about how our race and/or ethnicity shapes our lived experience. I am the eighth generation of my family born in New Orleans. All of us are descendants of Etienne Broyard, a gendarme in the French colonial army who arrived in New Orleans at age 24 in January…

Despite spending millions on corporate diversity efforts, U.S. companies aren’t retaining black professionals or promoting them to top positions, causing many of those workers to walk out the doors in frustration, according to a new report.Black people account for about 12% of the U.S. population, but occupy only 3.2% of the senior leadership roles at large companies in the U.S. and just 0.8% of all Fortune 500 CEO positions, according to the analysis by the Center for Talent Innovation, a workplace think tank in New York City.The study was funded by Disney, Pfizer and other major corporate players. Its conclusions were drawn…

The development will include affordable apartments, townhomes, and a hub for Black-owned businesses expected to be completed in 2027. PORTLAND, Oregon — A new $115 million project on 1.7 acres of land will be bringing 85 affordable apartments and 20 townhomes as well as a hub for Black-owned businesses to the North Portland area.  Bryson Davis — the board chair for the Williams & Russell CDC, the organization developing the lot — said, “This development is here to kind of — right a wrong that occurred when Legacy Health expanded with the help of the city back in the early…

HUDSON – It’s not easy being an entrepreneur, especially with no background in business, but with passion and hard work Marissa Tilley found a way. Now she runs one of the most popular dress shops in Massachusetts.Tilley’s love for fashion started when she was a teenager working at New York Fashion Week. Now she has her own shop, Lady Black Tie in Hudson.”It’s been pretty life changing for sure,” Tilley told WBZ-TV. “There’s something really special about special occasion shopping. I find that it’s a bonding experience. I love seeing moms and daughters coming in together. You come in with…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A group of Black male voters in Pennsylvania told a local reporter that they didn’t consider Vice President Kamala Harris to be Black prior to former President Trump’s comments on her race.On Saturday, CNN host Michael Smerconish showed a clip of local CBS news affiliate reporter Joel D. Smith speaking with a group of potential Black voters at a barbershop last week regarding their opinion on Harris.”Is Kamala gonna make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?” Smith asked the men.Before answering the question, one of the men…

by Daniel Johnson December 5, 2023 The National Black Lives Matter organization and BLM Rhode Island both publicly distanced themselves from Mark Fisher. The National Black Lives Matter organization and BLM Rhode Island have both publicly denounced the claims of Mark Fisher, who claimed to be a founder of BLM Rhode Island while endorsing Donald Trump for President during an interview with Fox News. Providence Journal, Gary Dantzler, the current head of BLM Rhode Island, told The Providence Journal that Fisher was an advocate before “he got fired and demoted.” As for whether Fisher was a co-founder of the organization,…

Map: Google Earth By the time you read this, Lashananda Kee will have left. The house on the 1500 block of 14th Avenue North where she has lived with her children and grandchildren is being sold out from under them, and they were the last ones to know it. “We didn’t even know that the landlord was selling the house,” says Kee, who is 39. She’s sitting on her front stoop holding an unlit cigarette as the afternoon sun beats down on North Nashville. Her grandson, 3-year-old Jeremiah, occasionally peeks out the front door and waves. “He’s been selling this house since September,…