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Chase Consumer Banking CEO Thasunda Duckett Joins NIKE’s Board of Directors | Black Enterprise

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019African American Professionals, Black Excellence

Thasunda Duckett, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, a division of JPMorgan Chase, has joined an exclusive club with her recent appointment to NIKE‘s board of directors. As such, she has become the only African American female C-suite executive to serve on the board of the $34.3 billion athletic footwear and apparel producer as well as […]

The Cleveland Summit and Muhammad Ali: The true story | The Undefeated

November 18, 2019December 26, 2019African American Athletes

Historic meeting organized by Jim Brown had an economic incentive

Guggenheim Hires First Full-Time Black Curator | The New York Times

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019African American Art, African American Professionals

Ashley James, most recently of the Brooklyn Museum, started there this week.

Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much

Black Owned Esports Company Raises $50 Million | Shoppe Black

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs

PlayVS, a Black owned Esports company which develops software used to operate high school esports competitions, announced recently that it had completed a $50 million Series C funding round. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, which also headed up the company’s $15 million Series A in summer 2018. Other investors in […]

Track legend Harrison Dillard, four-time Olympic champion, dies at 96 | Cleveland.Com

November 17, 2019November 17, 2019African American Athletes

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Harrison Dillard was a huge underdog when he lined up for the 100-meter dash at the Olympic Games of 1948 in London’s Wembley Stadium. A capacity crowd of 83,000, including the king and queen of England, assumed he had little chance to win against an unequalled array of speedsters. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Fans […]

Intersectionality Matters Podcast Exposes Attacks on Black Motherhood | Colorlines

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019Black Motherhood, Violence Against Women

Host Kimberlé Crenshaw: “It wasn’t the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution nor the Stars and Stripes that gave birth to America; it was the Black vagina that laid the golden egg.”

Court Stops Execution of Rodney Reed in Texas After Outcry | The New York Times

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform

Mr. Reed had been scheduled to die on Wednesday. Celebrities, politicians and the state’s parole board had all argued for a reprieve.

The Mysterious Death of Boxing’s Most Fearsome Fighter | Daily Beast

November 15, 2019November 18, 2019African American Athletes, African American History

The new documentary “Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston” explores the life and curious death of the boxing legend, including his deep mob ties and dubious losses to Ali.

N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools | The Philadelphia Inquirer

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019African American History, Black History

New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate. The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which […]