Lisa Price sat down with Gild Creative Group’s Tiffany Hardin to talk entrepreneurship and her beauty brand’s success.
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Lupita Nyong’o Wrote a Book For Girls of Color to “See More Dark Skin in a Beautiful Light” | POPSUGAR
Chanel-Vargas, POPSUGAR Image Source: Amazon. Featured Image Lupita Nyong’o is now a published author, and her children’s picture book Sulwe — which means star in her native language Luo — sends a powerful and much-needed message to girls of color.
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Idris Elba signs MOU with government of Sierra Leone to develop Bonthe Island | The Sierra Leone Telegraph
Abdul Rashid Thomas, The Sierra Leone Telegraph [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Government of Sierra Leone and Sherbro Alliance Partners – a development company owned by film actor Idris Elba and Sierra Leonean entrepreneur – Siaka Stevens, have today 30th September 2019, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in New York, to establish a strategic public-private […]
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The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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Byron Allen Strikes $290M Deal To Buy 11 Local Stations From USA Television | Deadline
Dade Hayes, Deadline [dropcap]B[/dropcap]yron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has acquired 11 local TV stations from USA Television for $290 million. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The stations serve small to mid-sized cities (spanning markets ranked No. 79 to No. 188 in the U.S.) and have network affiliations with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. While the deal’s valuation is a […]
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Chicago Nonprofit Will Award $900,000 to Artists of Color | Artforum.com
Artforum.com, Artforum.com Jeffreen M. Hayes. Photo: Milo Bosh. Featured Image [dropcap]T[/dropcap]hreewalls, a cultural nonprofit that supports visual artists in Chicago, has announced that it will award $900,000 to artists who identify as African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, or Native American (ALAANA). The organization will grant $300,000 per year for the next three years to artists of […]
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Amber Guyger, Ex-Dallas Police Officer, Is Guilty of Murder for Killing Her Neighbor | The New York Times
Ms. Guyger killed her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment in 2018. She faces up to 99 years in prison.
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Tuskegee Airman Leslie Edwards dies at Cincinnati VA Hospital | WCPO
WCPO staff, WCPO Leslie Edwards, 93, of Springfield Township, is a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic during World War II. (Photo: The Enquirer/Liz Dufour). Featured Image [dropcap]L[/dropcap]eslie Edwards didn’t talk about his military career during his daughter’s childhood — or her adulthood, for that matter. Imogene Bowers was 50 years old when she […]
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Ga. Woman Pardoned 60 Years After Her Execution | NPR
By Kathy Lohr, All Things Considered, NPR A black maid executed in Georgia in 1945 is being granted a pardon by the state for killing a white man she said enslaved her. Lena Baker said she acted in self-defense, but a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. Baker is the only […]
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‘Central Park Five’ To Trump: Death Penalty Ad Put A ‘Bounty On Our Head’ | HuffPost
While the falsely accused men were honored this week, a publisher dropped one of the prosecutors from the botched case.
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