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Deborah Dugan, the CEO of the nonprofit AIDS organization (RED), will be replacing Neil Portnow as the president and CEO of the Recording Academy, the organization who puts on the annual Grammy Awards, according to Billboard. Dugan will reportedly succeed Portnow in July. Dugan brings decades of leadership experience to the Academy, including an eight-year stint (1990-98) as an […]
Janet Jackson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night at their 34th annual ceremony. The event took place at Brooklyn‘s Barclays Center. During her speech, Jackson called for more women to be inducted. “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, please, 2020: induct more women,” she said at the tail end of her address. Elsewhere in […]
A former Florida cop used his police database to meet women, the New York Daily News reports. Leonel Marines, 36, used the database at his Florida police station as a dating platform. By the time he was found out, he had gone on dates and had sex with almost 150 women in at least six […]
Kanye West has been keeping fans waiting on Yandhi after his messy 2018. The G.O.O.D. Music founder’s long-awaited project might have some material that’ll edge his way back into the public’s good graces, according to engineer Kevin Celik. Celik shared a few details about Yandhi during an interview with The Lunch Table. He reveals around […]
LeBron James hasn’t been in Hollywood too long, but he’s already negotiating deals. Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer revealed that James helped her receive fair pay in her upcoming biographical series on Madam C.J. Walker. Spencer told a Sundance crowd that James had to speak out on her behalf to receive equal pay to her male […]
For the third year in a row, women across the U.S. and the world convened to participate in the third annual Women’s March on Saturday. Clad in pink beanies and holding written messages of equality and social justice overhead, thousands of marchers banded together to highlight the social issues impacting our current political landscape. Among the many […]
Jason Reitman will reportedly be co-writing and directing the next iteration of Ghostbusters, building upon the storylines established in the 1984 original and 1989 sequel. Many may recall Paul Feig’s 2016 Ghostbusters film, a female reboot of the 1980’s classic, which Reitman has explicitly said he would ignore in the upcoming movie. Leslie Jones, one of the leading cast-members […]
A topless female protester charged at Donald Trump’s motorcade in Paris on Sunday to deliver a message. Reuters reported that the woman came close to Trump’s convoy before she was caught by the police. She had the words “fake peacemaker” scrawled across her chest. Trump was headed down the Champs-Élysées before a ceremony commemorating the end […]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first Muslim women elected to Congress, having won their respective races for the U.S. House of Representatives. But they were just two in a night of historic firsts. Both women are making the jump from the state House to the U.S. House. Tlaib won in Michigan in 2008 […]
Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford was aboard a Delta flight from Indianapolis to Boston when she saw that something was visibly wrong with the person seated next to her. As Stanford began to help the other person, the flight attendants noticed and became skeptical of the doctor. According to the New York Times, an attendant came […]
