In response to a picture posted to her Twitter and Facebook accounts that shows son Bobby Deen in a brownface portrayal of Ricky Ricardo (I Love Lucy), Paula Deen has fired her social media manager. The celebrity chef’s spokesman, Jaret Keller, confirmed that the social media manager was responsible for the #TransformationTuesday photo that showed […]
Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports. That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted […]
Amid demands by civil rights leaders and others for employers to improve foundering diversity on Silicon Valley, Facebook has been slow to build a workforce that mirrors its 1.4 billion users around the globe, according to the Guardian. Despite repeated promises by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chairman and chief executive, to build a less homogenous workforce, […]
Texas elementary school teacher Karen Fitzgibbons took to Facebook to complain about police officer Eric Casebolt’s resignation following his actions during the infamous McKinney pool party where bikini-clad 15-year-old Dajerria Becton was thrown to the ground and brutalized. Her Facebook post read as follows: “This makes me ANGRY! This officer should not have to resign. I’m going […]
Zoe Saldana wants all men to know taking their wife’s last name will not lead to their demise. After it was revealed that Zoe’s husband, artist Marco Perego, decided to take her surname, many fans and critics chimed in, even implying the Guardians of the Galaxy actress persuaded him to do it. In a Facebook post […]
We’ve all watched the humiliating videos of parents “teaching their kids” a lesson by giving them “old man” haircuts. And while they’ve garnered tons of attention online, the haircuts are a pretty embarrassing and extreme way to discipline children. Now, a Florida father is gaining attention for taking shaming videos to another level. His discipline trick? Don’t […]
Ben Affleck has issued an apology for hiding information about his ancestors on the PBS show Finding Your Roots. The actor took to his Facebook page to discuss why he decided to ask show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. and producers to take out the information that one of his distant relatives owned slaves. Gates spoke out about the episode […]
Twenty years after its release, The Lion King is still giving children from all over the world a serious case of the feels. Don’t believe us? Just look at this little girl’s reaction to the infamous scene of (spoiler alert) Scar killing Mufasa. Baltimore native Keith Harris posted a video of his daughter Viktoria and […]
In a groundbreaking court ruling, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice says a 26-year-old nurse can serve her estranged husband with divorce papers in a Facebook message, the New York Daily News reports. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper writes in a ruling that Ellanora Baidoo, a Brooklyn nurse, may use Facebook to serve divorce papers […]
Kyesha Smith Wood, a mother of three, broke the internet this week when she issued an apology on behalf of her daughters’ rude behavior towards another mother at a movie theater in Alabama. Wood dropped her son, daughter, and step-daughter off at the movies and afterwards, was informed by her son that the two 13-year-old girls were […]
A former female software engineer is proposing a class-action lawsuit against Twitter, claiming the microblogging service uses a secretive promotion process geared toward men, according to CNET. Tina Huang claims Twitter alerts only certain people about job openings and promotion opportunities, frequently bypassing women, according to Reuters. Via CNET: Huang on Thursday filed her proposed class-action lawsuit […]
Taking a page from the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of the 1960s, “intelligence analysts” from Mall of America in Bloomington, Minneapolis set up a fake Facebook account to identify and monitor local Black Lives Matter activists, who were later arrested and charged for a holiday protest at the mega mall, according to The Intercept. The Intercept’s investigation revealed […]
