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In 2019, while 61 percent of white households owned stock, only 33.5 percent of Black households owned stock. And while minority stock ownership narrowed between 2016 and 2019, according to the Associated Press, the COVID-19 pandemic and acute recession have “widened the gap again.” In addition to the disparities between Black and white stock owners, […]
Former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler has sold her share of the WNBA team Atlanta Dream. The Associated Press reports that real estate investor Larry Gottesdiener has now become the lead owner, with the three-member investor group rounded out by former Dream guard Renee Montgomery and Suzanne Abair, president of Gottesdiener’s firm, Northland Investment Corp. Loeffler […]
White New Yorkers descended on a COVID-19 vaccination site set up in a Latino community, taking vaccines from people of color living in the neighborhood. According to a report from CNN, the clinic launched on Jan. 14 at the Armory Track & Field Center in Washington Heights, a neighborhood that was hit hard by the […]
A Black cheerleader attending Ottawa University says her coach kicked her off the squad following a racist rant about her hair. As reported by the Kansas City Star, Talyn Jefferson decided not to remove her bonnet during practice because she didn’t want to hit her teammates with her long braids. After refusing to remove her bonnet, […]
Senior Trevor Wilkinson is accusing his West Texas high school of sexism and homophobia, after administrators gave him in school suspension for going to class with painted nails. “Imagine your school not allowing boys to paint their nails and giving boys iss for it,” Wilkinson tweeted. The 17-year-old attends Clyde High School, where the current […]
In an anonymous survey conducted by The Athletic, one NBA agent was critical of the league’s decision to embrace the Black Lives Matter movement, calling it a “horrible look for the league.” This agent claimed the players were “being manipulated” by the movement, which this person believed “really hurt the business.” “They initially did a great job by […]
In an extensive profile in the New York Times, controversial rapper 6ix9ine has suggested there’s not much of a difference between him and 2Pac. The interview touches on everything from why Tekashi decided to cooperate with authorities and his involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods, to his use of the n-word and Donald Trump. In 2015, 6ix9ine pleaded […]
The NFL will be painting social justice messages in end zones for the upcoming season, ProFootballTalk reports. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell revealed during a conference call on Tuesday that the phrases “End racism” and “It takes all of us” will appear on the field of every stadium. “The NFL stands with the Black community, the players, clubs, […]
Team ROC, the social justice-focused division of Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation company, is calling out an ad company for repeatedly declining “on entirely spurious grounds” to accept a billboard campaign about Wisconsin police officer Joseph Mensah. In a letter released on Thursday, the law firm representing Roc Nation said that Lamar Advertising Company’s actions “smack of improper censorship” and […]
One of the country’s most notorious white supremacists is finally banned from Twitter. The company decided to permanently suspend former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke on Thursday, after he violated its hateful conduct policy multiple times. “The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful […]
