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Bay Area News Anchor Wanted to Call Out Disproportionate Coverage of Gabby Petito Case. He Was Told It Was Inappropriate and Suspended Indefinitely.

September 28, 2021
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A California news anchor was suspended indefinitely from a Bay Area news station last week, after he suggested KTVU air a short segment about the disproportionate media coverage of the Gabby Petito case. Frank Somerville, 63, wanted to add a 46-second tagline following a longer report about the homicide investigation into Petito’s death, questioning the…

Mara Brock Akil launches new production company at Netflix

September 28, 2021
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Under her recent deal at the streaming giant, Brock Akil has created story27, with plans set for four new series. Television producer and writer Mara Brock Akil has launched a new production company under her recent deal at streaming giant Netflix. Brock Akil’s new company, story27, will be headed by Susie Fitzgerald, its president of…

Notable Black Anti-Vaxxers Who Won’t Endorse The COVID-19 Vaccine

September 28, 2021
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Lenox Hill Hospital Chair of Emergency Medicine Yves Duroseau receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Doctor Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on December 14, 2020, in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York. | Source: Scott Heins / Getty UPDATED: 10:45 a.m. ET, Sept. 28 Originally published Sept. 14 Public health officials…

‘Logan Said Stop Playing with Him!’: Tamar Braxton’s Instagram Live Derails After Son Chimes In

September 28, 2021
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Tamar Braxton‘s Instagram Live on Sunday, Sept. 26, got sidetracked when the singer’s son Logan Herbert joined the conversation. In the social media post, Braxton was seen chatting and joking around with her friends Larry Sims and Wardell Malloy as they finished a meal. Tamar Braxton’s Instagram Live with friends gets derailed when the singer’s…

A Bridge Over Troubled Borders

September 28, 2021
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Source: Getty Images / Getty It’s been a week since the horrific images of the U.S. Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian asylum seekers circulated in the media. During that time, I couldn’t help but notice the unrelated coincidence of many popular Haitian Americans making headlines as trending topics. Twenty years ago, if the average citizen…

Anita Hill speaks on waiting nearly 30 years for Joe Biden apology

September 28, 2021
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His apology “wasn’t just about me,” Hill says. “It really was about, How do we stop this problem that I had come to symbolize?” Brandeis University professor Anita Hill is best known to the public for her role in the 1991 confirmation hearing of then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, who she accused of sexual harassment. …

R&B singer-songwriter Andrea Martin dead at 49

September 28, 2021
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Martin, who wrote hit songs for Monica, SWV, En Vogue and others, died Monday of a cause not yet announced. Andrea Martin, a celebrated singer-songwriter behind some of the greatest hits in R&B music, has died. Martin, who wrote songs for Monica, SWV and En Vogue, passed away on Monday at the age of 49….

‘Karens’ Gone Wild: Videos Show Privileged White Women Can’t Stop Trying To Police Black People

September 28, 2021
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Source: Twitter / Twitter (opens in a new tabUPDATED: 9:40 a.m. ET, Sept. 28, 2021 — While they never really went anywhere, Karens and their Karening — white women amplifying and weaponizing their privileges when it comes to exerting their purported moral authorities — are apparently making a serious comeback. The pandemic seemed to bring…

‘I Don’t Suggest Our Road for Anybody’: Will Smith Reveals He Had His Own Entanglement and Wanted a Harem of Girlfriends Including Halle Berry

September 28, 2021
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The web of entanglements surrounding Will Smith and his wife of almost 25 years, Jada Pinkett Smith, is even bigger than fans might have imagined. Smith, 53, publicly confirmed for the first time that his marriage to the actress was dealt more than just her romance with the singer August Alsina. The box office megastar…

‘They Ended Up Taking My ID’: Black Google Employee Details How He Was Mistaken for a Trespasser, Stopped by Security on Company’s Campus

September 28, 2021
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A Black associate product manager at Google claims he was stopped by company security after someone reported a possible trespassing. In a now-viral post shared to his Twitter account last week, Angel Onuoha, wrote that he was riding his bike “around Google’s campus and somebody called security on me because they didn’t believe I was…