‘I’m absolutely thrilled to join a best-in-class team.’ Audible has a new head of Audible Studios. Zola Mashariki has snagged the role at the audio book company. Audible recently announced the former BET/Viacom executive will lead the company’s original content, per The Wrap. “Audible is an industry leader and the go-to home for extraordinary creators and…
“We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions,” said an Amazon spokesperson Amazon is being accused of illegally firing employees for speaking out. Read More: Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently determined that Amazon’s firing of two of its employees was retaliatory because…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson rejected the legislation that would’ve made Arkansas the first state to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for trans youth Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth. The Republican governor rejected legislation that…
The sports analyst says lawmakers ‘are designed to make us not like each other so they can keep their grasp of money and power.’ Charles Barkley went viral after sharing his “honest” opinion of the role politicians play in society. During CBS’s broadcast of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament on Saturday night, Barkley was…
EXCLUSIVE: King signals that she’s gearing up to take ‘hard lines’ in the current political battle in the Peach State Dr. Bernice King has signaled that she’s gearing up to take “hard lines” in the current political battle in Georgia over the state’s recently passed bill that critics say restricts the right to vote, particularly…
In the early months of the program, the team responded to 748 of 2,500 calls, none of which required police, and no one was arrested. Multiple cities across the country are building programs that involve mental health professionals, social workers, or community members responding to certain 911 emergency calls instead of police officers. Read More:…
Music and television icon Cher is clapping back at people who criticized her for commenting on how she may have helped in the moments leading up to George Floyd’s death. The legendary singer has faced harsh criticism and accusations of having a “white savior complex” for her tweet sent out on April 2: “Was talking…
Prior to the public outrage the fashion exec warned staff about her successor’s anti-Asian tweets Could it be that Teen Vogue’s outgoing editor warned Condé Nast and former staff about her replacement Alexi McCammond‘s racially charged tweets, and it fell on deaf ears? Well, a new report claims that’s exactly what happened. On Sunday, The…
Georgia is set to overhaul a controversial citizen’s arrest law that dates back to the Civil War-era, and was cited by the three white men charged in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery was out for a jog in February 2020 in Glynn County, Georgia, when he was chased down and fatally shot by…
Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified against Derek Chauvin on Monday, the former officer accused of killing George Floyd last May, sparking another heightened call for justice in the Black Lives Matter movement. Arradondo, the city’s first Black chief, spoke out early in the days after Floyd’s…
