Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), is calling on “all people of good will”, who are outraged by President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies, to join the SCLC at its 60th Annual Convention July 12 -15, 2018 in Washington, which will focus on the current conditions of […]
Former U.S. Ambassador of Senegal Harriet L. Elam-Thomas, who currently sits on the advisory board of the University of Central Florida‘s “The Center for the Study of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery“ program, is concerned about the welfare of approximately 1,500 missing immigrant children, as well as the most recent group separated from their parents […]
The ABC hit comedy “Roseanne” was cancelled this afternoon after the star, Roseanne Barr, tweeted out a racist comment. The network decided that there was no way to have the main character on the show after the tweet hit the media, but the show wouldn’t be “Roseanne” without Roseanne Barr herself. To read more on […]
Today, May 29th, Starbucks will be closing around 8,000 stores to train their employees on anti-bias after an incident in Philadelphia. The training will last for around two to three hours causing a loss in profit up to around $12 million dollars. For more information visit USA Today at: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/05/29/starbucks-closure-racial-bias-training-tuesday/650316002/
LGBT advocates launched the “No Gay? No Way!” campaign, spotlighting the eleven anti-LGBT locations in nine different states on Amazon’s recent list of finalists for its new headquarters. The campaign asks Amazon to select a market where all employees and customers will be protected from discrimination, and is planning a series of online and local activities to raise […]
“A CONCERT FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE“TO BE LIVESTREAMED ON TUMBLR Fans Can Tune In On Tumblr For An Evening of #MusicandUnity On September 24 Performers include: Dave Matthews Band, Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake, Chris Stapleton, Ariana Grande, The Roots, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Cage the Elephant and Special Guests In response to the recent […]
The exclusive poll below was conducted in advance of tonight’s episode of the new series Third Rail with OZY, premiering tonight at 8:30 pm ET on PBS and streaming at pbs.org/thirdrail. Host Carlos Watson (Emmy Award-winning journalist, Editor in Chief of OZY.com) discusses the related topic “Is America Becoming More – Or Less – Racist?” […]
