News From A Colorful Perspective
Oscar-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique filed a discrimination suit against Netflix on Thursday at the Los Angeles Superior Court, according to NBC News. She is one of only ten Black actresses to have won an Oscar since the Academy’s inception. The 39-page document accused the streaming giant of gender and racial…
Edgar Villanueva is an expert on philanthropy and a member of the Lumbee Native American Tribe in North Carolina. After spending years in the institutional philanthropic sector, he wrote “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance,” which looks into how money — which has often been used…
Montgomery, Ala., now has its first Black mayor in history after Steven Reed was sworn into office on Tuesday morning in the city that birthed the civil rights movement. Reed was sworn into office at the Montgomery Performing Arts Centre, the Montgomery Advertiser reported, because so many people wanted to…
A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) analyzed more than 900 emails leaked from Stephen Miller that he sent to the far-right website Breitbart. The emails reveal that Miller, a White House senior adviser for President Donald Trump, used white supremacist propaganda and literature to shape Breitbart’s articles….
The Dallas Police Department (DPD) released three separate videos on Nov. 6 that detailed the final moments of Diamond S. Ross’ life. The videos were made public almost a year after an internal investigation by the department, according to the Dallas Morning News. Ross, 34, died from a drug overdose…
“Man Made” is a short film about transgender bodybuilders and their journey leading up to competing in Trans FitCon, the only all-transgender bodybuilding competition in the world. Director T Cooper, who himself is transgender, goes beyond the competition to explore the human interest story behind four men, assigned and raised…
Originally Published by Humana For the third year in a row, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) has achieved top Gold-level recognition in the American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Achievement Index, a science-based assessment that defines best practices and evaluates the quality, comprehensiveness and effectiveness of an organization’s efforts to improve employee health…
A prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary was taken to a local hospital in 2015 where he had to be resuscitated five times after his heart stopped. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole after being found guilty of first-degree…
Atatiana Jefferson was fatally shot in her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, by a police officer in October. Her father, Marquis A. Jefferson, died of a heart attack on Saturday, less than a month later. He was taken to Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas on Friday night, the…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a 2020 presidential hopeful, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that female candidates are held to a “different standard” than men. Klobuchar was talking to Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” when she brought up South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. She told Tapper that she…
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