Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson began crying as she said she is seriously considering retiring from Hollywood due to chronic underpayment and mistreatment in the industry. Henson, 53, started breaking down when she talked about her award-winning yet very arduous career and being chronically underpaid. She boasts an illustrious portfolio of dynamic roles, including those...
Courtesy Jeffrey Allen When the seed for the Black economic commerce website Ebonomy was planted nearly two years ago, brothers Jeffrey and Clayton Allen knew there was a need to index Black-owned businesses. “The Black community needs a strong economic base,” Clayton Allen, Ebonomy’s Chief Technology Officer told Atlanta Black Star. “In order to engage in cooperative economics and...
Former President Donald Trump was barred from running for re-election in Colorado on Tuesday, the result of the state’s narrow 4-3 Supreme Court ruling that he had engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. It’s the first time a court has disqualified a presidential candidate based on a provision...
When James Harden requested a trade out of Philadelphia last offseason, there surprisingly weren’t many buyers in his market. Harden is a former MVP. But most teams didn’t want to give up valuable assets for a disgruntled star in the final year of an expensive contract. The Los Angeles Clippers, on the other hand, kept...
It’s always been called the idiot box. But, this year, networks and viewers took sports television to a new low where common sense wasn’t required. It’s been a hard watch. Read more…
This was the year Beyoncé turned the world silver. In celebration of the singer’s seventh studio album, Renaissance, and its 56-stop world tour, fans got into formation, wearing the color silver to the show. Many recreated Beyoncé’s stage looks, glued sequins on cowboy hats, and one notable “stan” even dressed up like an alien. The...
The tech giant will pay $700 million and allow app makers to collect payments directly from consumers in a settlement it hopes will help resolve other legal challenges.
Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained the tech components it needs to keep its economy and war in Ukraine going.
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in San Ramon, California on February 25, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado ) Comcast waited 13 days to patch its network against a high-severity vulnerability, a lapse that allowed hackers to make off with password data and other sensitive information belonging to 36 million Xfinity customers....