Hair brings a unique background in diverse platforms including general management, experience leading a national news network, a regional sports business, and several local television news departments. He has reimagined programming lineups in his career discovering new, engaging talent, enhancing linear audience reach and vastly growing digital user engagement. […]
The BAMG feels that addressing these pillars is crucial to reversing decades of exclusion that Black auto-motive journalists have faced. As a result of the letter, all manufacturers responded, and a series of video calls were executed. The conversations were informative and some-times uncomfortable, and souls on both sides of the discussions were bared. “We need to be an adequate part of the solution,” said one automaker. “We need a strategic corporate reset,” said another. […]
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Traffic Sales and Profit (TSP), a powerful network and Facebook group of almost 14,000 purpose-driven African American entrepreneurs, has announced that 91 of the Black business owners in their tribe have worked together to collectively generate $49 million in sales within just one year (from July 2019 to July 2020). Led by its founder, Lamar Tyler, the members of TSP are owners of everything from brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce brands to service and product-based businesses. […]
The lawsuit alleges under the leadership of Easterbrook at McDonald’s Corporation and Kempczinski at McDonald’s USA, the McDonald’s companies engaged on a racist course of conduct, and “publicly abandoned its commitment to racial equality on a company-wide basis.” […]
Diseree comments, “Low self-esteem, abortions, mole-station, prostitution, divorce, homelessness, and single parenting have together and separately given me a front-row seat in my own ‘classroom of hopelessness’. But with the help of my God, I refused to give in to the unhealthy and festering circumstances that surrounded my youth.” […]
Dr. Keith Whitfield has been appointed as the new President of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He is the first Black president in the university’s 63-year history. Dr. Whitfield is currently the provost and senior vice president of academic affairs and a professor of psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit. […]
Former public defender Keeda Haynes, who was also formerly incarcerated, is running for Congress in Tennessee, challenging a nearly two-decade Democratic incumbent and hoping to become the first Black woman the state sends to Congress. […]
In the past, there have been U.S. Postage Stamps to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of several music business legends, including Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughn, Patsy Cline, Jimi Hendryx, Marvin Gaye, and Janis Joplin. Wilson’s quest to get the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp to celebrate Ballard, a founding star of The Supremes, has gained momentum. […]
“I paint Subjects that are representative of the many facets of American life, particularly, African-American culture and history, as I know it. I like to think of myself as a creative historian. I was put here to record history…all aspects of American culture and heritage. My sole purpose has always been to educate through my art,” he said. […]
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