How layoffs will affect DEI pledges: McKinsey’s Shelley Stewart

Businesses need to remain diligent in their diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, efforts as layoffs continue, according to McKinsey senior partner Shelley Stewart. In an interview with CNBC, Stewa...

White families are reaping over 90% of the benefit from this powerful tax rule

Tax season is starting for all Americans — but the tax code’s provisions play out very differently for white families compared to families of color, new research says. The tax benefits from some of th...

Racism And Discrimination Are A Key Public Health Threat—But Overlooked And Dismissed Using Poor Science, Researchers Warn

Topline Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a profound impact on health but are largely overlooked and erroneously dismissed with low-quality science, according to a series of papers published ...

Disney’s Splash Mountain To Close In Florida In January Amid Racism Concerns—Nearly Three Years After Company First Announced It

Topline Disney’s Splash Mountain ride will close in Walt Disney World in January, the company announced Friday, shuttering the attraction more than two and a half years after Disney initially announce...

Jonathan Majors And Glen Powell Talk ‘Devotion,’ Bringing A Hero To Life And Back Home

(Left to right) Glen Powell and Jonathan Majors attend the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Devotion’ at … [+] Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, California. WireImage Jonathan Majors a...

Jeremy Lin Discusses Anti-Asian Racism, Departure From Knicks And How ‘Door’ Appears ‘Shut’ On Return To NBA

NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 19: Jeremy Lin #17 of the New York Knicks reacts reacts during the game … [+] against the Dallas Mavericks at Madison Square Garden on February 19, 2012 in New York...

Robert Sarver Plans To Sell Phoenix Suns And Mercury After Racism Allegations

Topline Robert Sarver announced Wednesday he has begun the process of selling off his two professional basketball teams, the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, saying his ownership of the ...

Walmart ordered to pay Oregon man $4.4 million for racial profiling

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Multnomah County grand jury has ordered Walmart to pay $4.4 million in damages to a man who sued the store, saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a P...

Premier League players will limit taking a knee before matches

Players take a knee before a match between Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City on May 1, 2022. Visionhaus | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Premier League players will no longer routinely take a kn...

Yuga Labs Responds to BAYC Racism Undertone Allegations

One of the creators of Bored Apes Yacht Club, Gordon Goner, has criticized the misinformation campaign claiming that he and other cofounders are Nazis. In a blog post titled A letter from the Founder,...

Bored Ape Yacht Club(BAYC) Propagating NFT Racism?

In a one-hour-long documentary, the YouTuber Philion seriously accuses the BAYC of spreading hidden Nazi symbolism and propagating race stereotypes. The controversy is raising some serious questions r...

BAYC caught in a public opinion storm over Nazi club NFT racism

The NFTs ecosystem is now in vogue in the crypto market. It’s New York NFT Week, and things are off to a bad start. The release of a new documentary that accuses BAYC of being Nazi propaganda has begu...

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) on Trial Following Racism Claims

On June 20, Philip Rusnack, an NFT expert and a YouTube investigator, released a new video where he alleges that Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection has racist connotations with its ...

Yuga Labs’ most popular NFT collection screams racism

Rusnack set out his case in an hour-long video posted to YouTube on Monday, arguing that BAYC is “one giant alt-right inside joke” that uses language, symbols, and memes from the anonymous image board...

Even as crypto craters, it’s still ‘accessible to anyone’: blockchain educator

Cleve Mesidor. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Even as cryptocurrency craters as it has the past few weeks, it remains an asset class that is accessible to anyone, says a blockchain e...

NFT Project Milady’s Charlotte Fang Accused Of Racism And Homophobia

Dune co-founder Charlotte Fang has abandoned an NFT initiative dubbed Milady, following a Twitter trolling firestorm. In January, a DAO purchased one of the last copies of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune...

MLB Suspends Yankees’ Josh Donaldson Amid Racism Allegation

Topline Major League Baseball on Monday handed down a one-game suspension and undisclosed fine to Josh Donaldson, a New York Yankees third baseman who referred to Black competitor Tim Anderson over th...

What’s stopping Black-owned banks from thriving

Big banks and corporations like Yelp, Netflix, and Microsoft have announced major investments in Black-owned banks. Yet Black banks are far from thriving. Americans who identify solely as Black or Afr...

New Law Could Reduce Pay Inequity On Broadway

Former Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal speaking during an event at Riverside Park on July 14, 2021 … [+] (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Riverside Park Conservancy) Getty Images for Rivers...