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Faith Stowers is using her platform now so that it will help her discuss racism with her son later on in his life. The former “Vanderpump Rules” star, 31, welcomed her son Marcio Rock Marchena III in February and is already anticipating on having conversations about race and racism with him as he grows up. …
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Sunny Hostin, co-host of “The View,” addressed a report that a top ABC News executive used derogatory and racist comments about her and other on-air figures. Hoston said on today’s episode that the report — published in HuffPost on Saturday — “tells me that systemic racism touches everything and everyone in our society. Regardless of …
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Systemic racism is choking the US economy by preventing all Americans from fully participating in it, top central bankers say. The heads of two regional Federal Reserve banks recently made economic arguments against racism amid both raging protests against police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately affected black people. The Fed chiefs contend …
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“Gone with the Wind” is coming back. HBO Max will again start streaming the controversial slavery-era movie — with a lecture about the racial themes that first got it pulled, according to the scholar providing the intro. “I will provide an introduction placing the film in its multiple historical contexts,” cinema professor Jacqueline Stewart wrote …
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Ice-T and Naughty by Nature’s Treach have a new movie, “Equal Standard,” that deals with racism in the police force. “It’s not just a black issue anymore,” says Treach. “It’s a humanity issue. You can’t treat these people like this. It’s 2020, and enough is enough.” He continues, “We have been screaming out for help …
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Don’t expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon. In a new Netflix stand-up special, “8:46” that dropped for free Friday night via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans. “You watch one shooting after …
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The nation was riveted last week when a “Karen” in Arizona was slapped across the face for telling a Native American woman to “go back to Mexico.” While many cheered the slap, it brought back traumatic memories for one New Yorker. Nicole Young, a TV personality and the founder of the lifestyle site The Beautiful …
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Marlo Hampton says she wants to see real change from Anna Wintour — not just the apology she made for “hurtful and intolerant” behavior at Vogue magazine, where she’s been the editor-in-chief for over 30 years. The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star and fashion boutique owner told Page Six, “I hear you’re sorry, but now …
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Boston mayor Marty Walsh declared racism a “public health crisis” on Friday, and announced a proposal to transfer funds from the police department’s overtime budget to social services. Walsh said $3 million would be immediately transferred from overtime for city police to the Boston Public Health Commission. The mayor will also propose that the City …
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Howard Stern has become the latest in a long list of celebrities and power players to be forced to confront their use of blackface. On Thursday a video appeared online showing Stern in minstrel-style makeup, liberally using the N-word. It was cut together with a recent appearance on “The View” during which he claimed he’d …
Faith Stowers is using her platform now so that it will help her discuss racism with her son later on in his life. The former “Vanderpump Rules” star, 31, welcomed her son Marcio Rock Marchena III in February and is already anticipating on having conversations about race and racism with him as he grows up. …
