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12/01/2019

A Liberal Mom’s Critical Texts to Her Son, a Fox News Host

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/11/jesse-watters-the-five-mom-texts/602614/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Jesse Watters regularly reads messages from his mother aloud on air, exemplifying a political rift present in many American households.

11/23/2019

Democratic Debate Moderator Panel Of All Women Is Celebrated By Viewers

Democratic Debate Moderator Panel Of All Women Is Celebrated By Viewers

The presidential debate was led by four female journalists, meaning that women made up a majority of those on the debate stage.

11/17/2019

Everyone Is Admitting What They Get Paid To Work In Journalism

https://moguldom.com/240260/everyone-is-admitting-what-they-get-paid-to-work-in-journalism/

For some journalists, the days of it being taboo to disclose their salaries are gone. A new Google Doc is circulating which includes details about journalist’s salaries. Photo Courtesy of Nappy.co For thousands of journalists, the

10/27/2019

Cher Offers to Pay Legal Fees for Black Security Guard Fired for Telling Student to Stop Calling Him N-Word

Check out this piece by my good friend and fellow journalist Karu F. Daniels.
Always loved Cher!
https://www.theroot.com/cher-offers-to-pay-legal-fees-for-black-security-guard-1839208652?rev=1571600759696&utm_source=theroot_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR00iE92TSXi1-hCLCRIz1op10IFfNN3Bjq3hPzDxO2Nuz6Tk-tZ650kwNQ

She’s a half-breed with a heart of gold.

10/03/2019

Kick The Monday Blues! – The Network Journal

Kick The Monday Blues!https://tnj.com/kick-the-monday-blues/

Lifestyle Kick The Monday Blues! By Ann Brown - October 1, 2019 0 19 One would be hard-pressed to find a lot of people who love Mondays. After all, it is the end of the weekend and the start of the workweek. But there are some ways to flip the script and instead of dreading Mondays, you could actual...

09/29/2019

Detroit’s Woman-Focused Work Space Femology Expands – The Network Journal

Detroit’s Woman-Focused Work Space Femology
Femology
Expandshttps://tnj.com/detroits-woman-focused-work-space-femology-expands/

Small BusinessBlack Entrepreneurs Detroit’s Woman-Focused Work Space Femology Expands By Ann Brown - September 27, 2019 0 18 It was on the Internet that Meagan Ward, an Impact leader in Women’s Empowerment, and Yliana Guzman, a serial entrepreneur, met. Turned out they had a lot in common, among...

09/24/2019

Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie

Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie

Filled with more than 250 images of artists including Ice Cube, The Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, Naughty by Nature, Public Enemy, 50 Cent, N.W.A, Snoop Dogg, Lil' Kim, Flavor Flav, Lauren Hill, Queen Latifah, TLC, many that have never before been published, this book is set to become the new hip-...

09/21/2019

The Art of Collecting: Spreading the Love of Black Art – The Network Journal

The Art of Collecting: Spreading the Love of Black Art
https://tnj.com/the-art-of-collecting-spreading-the-love-of-black-art/

Small BusinessBlack Entrepreneurs The Art of Collecting: Spreading the Love of Black Art By Ann Brown - September 19, 2019 0 34 Jessica Stafford Davis To say Jessica Stafford Davis loves art and sharing art would be an understatement. The Virginia-based curator, collector, and philanthropist started...

09/17/2019

Legendary journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts dies at 75

Legendary journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts dies at 75

Renowned ABC News journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts has died at the age of 75. "We will miss Cokie beyond measure, both for her contributions and for her love and kindness," her family said in a statement.

08/29/2019

TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to a gorilla

TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to a gorilla

A tearful Alex Housden acknowledged the hurt she caused colleague Jason Hackett and others around Oklahoma City for saying he looked like a zoo gorilla.

08/03/2019

Do it Again: A Look at Encore Careers

Do it Again: A Look at Encore Careers
https://tnj.com/do-it-again-a-look-at-encore-careers/

Encore careers are worth taking a second look.

07/30/2019

WeMontage
https://tnj.com/morehouse-college-alum-enjoys-home-decor-business-success-with-wemontage/

07/27/2019

A Spa Grows In New York

A Spa Grows In New York
Luxe Beauty Brow
https://tnj.com/a-spa-grows-in-new-york/

Who doesn’t love to be pampered and made beautiful at a spa? Krystal Smith, makeup artist and brow expert, knows this and she recently opened the Luxe Beauty Brow and Spa in Long Island, New York. “I wanted to open a spa because I wanted to provide services that improve health, beauty, and relax...

07/18/2019

How One Woman Is Helping Teens Become E-Commerce Entrepreneurs

Moguldom Candice Cunningham
How One Woman Is Helping Teens Become E-Commerce Entrepreneurs
https://moguldom.com/213602/how-one-woman-is-helping-teens-become-e-commerce-entrepreneurs/

Photo via Candice Cunningham Candice Cunningham is on a mission. She wants to create a mass network of teen entrepreneurs across underserved communities in Chicago. Cunningham, 31, who owns two online stores, has been training teens from

07/17/2019

Meet Dr. Tyeese L. Gaines, A Woman Wearing Many Hats

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
Meet Dr. Tyeese L. Gaines, A Woman Wearing Many Hats
https://tnj.com/meet-dr-tyeese-l-gaines-a-woman-wearing-many-hats/

As an entrepreneur in the medical field, Dr. Tyeese Gibson, CEO of NOWmed Walk-In Urgent Care, wears many hats including journalist.

07/10/2019

Money, Meals, & More: Meet Entrepreneurial Couple Marvin and Gloria Smith

Money, Meals, & More: Meet Entrepreneurial Couple Marvin and Gloria Smith
https://tnj.com/money-meals-more-meet-entrepreneurial-couple-marvin-and-gloria-smith/

In their upcoming book, The Psychology of Credit, The Smiths give readers tools for good credit. Their restaurant is Cafe Social House.

07/10/2019

Online Platform Helps Black Women Businesses Grow

Black Girls Allowed
Online Platform Helps Black Women Businesses Grow
https://tnj.com/online-platform-helps-black-women-businesses-grow/

Black Girls Allowed is an online group that focuses on helping black women entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

07/10/2019

Serena Williams Poses Unretouched for Harper's BAZAAR

Nice! Real!
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a28209579/serena-williams-us-open-2018-essay/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The tennis champion bares all for our airbrush-free August issue, and opens up about last year’s controversy at the US Open.

07/06/2019

10 Black Weedpreneurs Killing It At The Legal Marijuana Game

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10 Black Weedpreneurs Killing It At The Legal Marijuana Game
https://moguldom.com/198891/10-black-weedpreneurs-killing-it-at-the-legal-marijuana-game/

Photo: Unsplash These days marijuana is big business -- big legal business. In fact, retail marijuana sales in the United States were expected to soar to $10 billion in 2018, according to a report from Marijuana

07/06/2019

Instagram's Head Of Design Is Stepping Down

Moguldom
https://moguldom.com/200456/instagram-black-executives-head-of-design-is-stepping-
down/

Photo: YouTube Ian Spalter,  one of a few Black executives in tech, may have stepped down as Instagram’s head of design, but he’s not leaving the company. Spalter, who will be replaced by Facebook head of design

07/06/2019

Should We Retire The Term 'People Of Color'? Does It Erase Black People?

Thoughts?
Moguldom
https://moguldom.com/199066/should-we-retire-the-term-people-of-color-does-it-erase-black-people/

The term “people of color” some say helps empower a broad group of people who are non-white. But others say it actually erases Black people and ignores the fact that some “people of color" face

07/04/2019

Compassion & Innovation: How the Levett Family Succeeds in the Funeral Business

The Network Journal
https://tnj.com/compassion-innovation-how-the-levett-family-succeeds-in-the-funeral-business/

Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Homes has created a family-owned legacy in the death care industry that will be here for generations to come.

06/22/2019

Thanks, Audrey Bernard for sending this to me! Can you guys spot me?
#NewYorkBeacon African American Film Association #AudreysSocietySwirl

06/21/2019

Short Stories From An American in Cape Verde: At Last, I Will Learn Kriolu With the New ‘Capeverdean Creole-English Dictionary’ : New York Trend Online

Short Stories From An American in Cape Verde: At Last, I Will Learn Kriolu With the New ‘Capeverdean Creole-English Dictionary’ : New York Trend Online

Serving New York City, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties

06/06/2019

Ebony Loses Suit Against The Root

http://journal-isms.com/2019/06/ebony-loses-suit-against-the-root/?fbclid=IwAR3Ta7uZffNlOFXnKF2novcKff9Sqn6DEidpOMui1HSIVvV1aGcGxCRMlaM

Satire protected by First Amendment, judge rules; now you can get animated over Mueller Report; board member wants to remove SPJ president; black voters feel talked at, not talked to; N.Y. Times wa…

06/05/2019

ELL Cosme - Na Pared (Official Video) Prod. by Alvin Brown

Client news...new video from ELL Cosme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzhCxmCqLzU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR19pq268oisgys02ARnKzvP55gSKteAF81LMWjK6pEQltjy--U41whQo0Y

ELL Cosme performing "Na Pred," the second single from the upcoming album "VIbes." Video directed by Austin Hein Productions Makeup by Autier Allen Craft Fea...

05/26/2019

Jemele Hill Drops Stunning Engagement Video Inspired By Beyoncé And Jay-Z

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jemele-hill-engagement-shoot-beyonce-jay-z-carters_n_5ce94d16e4b0512156f2217a

"Shout-out to Jay Z and Beyonce for being them," the journalist wrote on Twitter.

05/15/2019

Drinks On Her: Why One Woman Was Happy To Leave Behind A Law Career To Launch An App

Happied Moguldom
Drinks On Her: Why One Woman Was Happy To Leave Behind A Law Career To Launch An App
https://moguldom.com/201500/drinks-on-her-why-one-woman-was-happy-to-leave-behind-a-law-career-to-launch-an-app/

Photo: Happied Happy Hour is magic hour for bars restaurants as well as for their patrons. Happy Hour, which usually happens between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., helps U.S. bars and restaurants generate 60.5percent of their

05/13/2019

MASTERCLASS IN ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISM WITH TANISHA LAVERNE GRANT

Hey journalists, check this out...
Tanisha LaVerne Grant
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/masterclass-in-entertainment-journalism-with-tanisha-laverne-grant-tickets-61739395193?fbclid=IwAR0sf2iDEfcgCH5hQa0UXOTl30khOYJ8ohM5s6b3qUfgpksWx_g4G__2YrI

JOIN ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST AND RED CARPET CORRESPONDENT TANISHA LAVERNE GRANT FOR A ONE DAY MASTER CLASS IN ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISM. HONORED BY BLACK WOMEN IN MEDIA TANISHA LAVERNE GRANT IS A MULTI AWARD WINNING ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST AND RED CARPET CORRESPONDENT WHO HAS INTERVIEWED COUNTLESS....

05/10/2019

Radio host fired after tweeting photo comparing royal baby Archie to chimpanzee: 'Casual racism is alive and well'

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/danny-baker-fired-racist-royal-baby-archie-chimpanzee-photo-102117934.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02

BBC Radio presenter Danny Baker said he "would have used same stupid pic for any other royal birth" and denied accusations of racism.

05/10/2019

Founder Of ‘Diversity In Cannes’ Talks About Her 10-Year Effort For Inclusion At World Famous Film Festival And Beyond

BEYOND BORDERS: DIVERSITY IN CANNES Moguldom Yolonda Brinkley
Founder Of ‘Diversity In Cannes’ Talks About Her 10-Year Effort For Inclusion At World Famous Film Festival And Beyond
https://moguldom.com/200842/founder-of-diversity-in-cannes-talks-about-her-10-year-effort-for-inclusion-at-world-famous-film-festival-and-beyond/

Photo: Diversity in Cannes The Cannes Film Festival, considered the world's most prestigious film festival, was launched in 1946. And in 2010 Yolonda Brinkley created Diversity in Cannes as an independent filmmaker movement promoting inclusion at

05/09/2019

How This 23-Year-Old Tanzanian Entrepreneur Juggles Med School And Running His Online Education Platform

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How This 23-Year-Old Tanzanian Entrepreneur Juggles Med School And Running His Online Education Platform

https://moguldom.com/200271/tanzanian-entrepreneur-created-successful-online-education-tool/

Ali Khatau. Photo: Mohammed Amri Ali Khatau is just 23 years old yet the Tanzanian medical student is a serial social entrepreneur -- and a successful one. His latest project is an education online platform

05/09/2019

Go Tyra Banks!
Model to Mogul: Tyra Banks Is Back on the Cover of SI Swimsuit at Age 45

https://www.si.com/swim-daily/2019/04/29/tyra-banks-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-2019-cover

05/06/2019

Gayle King negotiates $11M deal with CBS News

Gayle King negotiates $11M deal with CBS News

Amid a massive overhaul of CBS’s morning show and evening news broadcasts, King will continue to host “CBS This Morning,” as we first reported.

05/02/2019

How One Africa-Focused Cryptocurrency Companies Is Riding The Crypto Wave

Paxful Moguldom
https://moguldom.com/199219/how-this-africa-focused-cryptocurrency-company-is-riding-the-crypto-wave/

Ray Youssef, CEO, and Co-Founder Photo: Paxful Paxful, a Wilmington, Delaware-based peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace and bitcoin wallet, didn't outright market to Africa. Instead, Africans chose Paxful. Cryptocurrency interest and use continue to grow in Africa. In 2018,

04/26/2019

Hola To Olá: Meet Cuban Artist Omar Camilo Who Calls Cabo Verde Home

A Vontade Tours, Cabo Verde Omar Camilo
http://www.avontade-tours.com/index.php/2019/04/19/hola-to-ola-meet-cuban-artist-omar-camilo-who-calls-cabo-verde-home/

By Ann Brown for A Vontade Tours Artist and photographer Omar Camilo may have been born on the shores of Havana, but he has found an affinity and a home on the shores of Cabo Verde. “I was born in Havana in a time of great political and economic turbulence…1964,” says Camilo, who now lives in ...

04/26/2019

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson want control of Ebony photo archives, 'an essential part of American history'

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/ct-biz-lucas-hobson-ebony-photo-archives-20190425-story.html

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson filed a motion Wednesday to foreclosure on the historic Ebony photo archives, which were used as collateral in a $12 million loan to now-bankrupt Johnson Publishing

04/19/2019

Finally! 24-Hour Black News Channel to Debut in November

https://www.theroot.com/finally-24-hour-black-news-channel-to-debut-in-novembe-1834140548

I love Baby Boy reruns as much as the next person, but I’ve wondered for years why BET completely abandoned their daily news programming. And with TV One’s decision to can Roland Martin’s News One Now in 2017, those of us eager for network news have had to sift though a deluge of nebulous cove...

04/10/2019

Johnson Publishing, Which Started Ebony And Jet, Files For Bankruptcy

https://moguldom.com/195348/johnson-publishing-which-started-ebony-and-jet-magazines-files-for-bankruptcy/

Jet magazine founder John H. Johnson, head of Johnson Publishing Co., sits in his Chicago office Monday, Dec. 10, 2001. Fifty years after starting the magazine, Johnson is holding fast to his original idea of

04/07/2019

Detavio Samuels: The Future Of Media Is Influencers

Moguldom Detavio Samuels
https://moguldom.com/192574/detavio-samuels-the-future-of-media-is-influencers/

Detavio Samuels, President of iONE Digital Detavio Samuels understands a thing or two about digital media. He is president of iOne Digital and One Solution, and the company's digital media division operates sites like CassiusLife, GlobalGrind,

04/07/2019

Pro-Trump Trolls Are Using Digital Blackface To Impersonate Black People

Moguldom
https://moguldom.com/192313/pro-trump-trolls-are-using-digital-blackface-to-impersonate-black-people-on-twitter/

As the 2020 election campaigning heats up, so has fake news and fake social media accounts targeting Black voters. It had already been proven that in the last election Russian Internet trolls targeted Black voters

04/07/2019

Damon Young: 'What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker'

Moguldom #DamonYoung VerySmartBrothas.com
https://moguldom.com/192537/damon-young-co-founder-of-cultural-criticism-site-very-smart-brothas-what-doesnt-kill-you-makes-you-blacker/

Very Smart Brothers blog creator Damon Young speaks during an interview at the Associated Press Bureau in Washington, Friday, Sept. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Damon Young, co-founder and editor-in-chief of cultural criticism site Very

04/07/2019

Briahna Joy Gray Hired As National Press Secretary For Bernie Sanders

Moguldom Briahna Joy Gray #BernieSanders
https://moguldom.com/191455/briahna-joy-gray-hired-as-national-press-secretary-for-bernie-sanders-campaign/

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raises a fist after talking to workers at a rally at the University of California Los Angeles, on Wednesday March 20, 2019. Members of a union representing research and technical workers

04/07/2019

Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School

Moguldom
https://moguldom.com/191458/only-7-black-students-got-into-n-y-s-most-selective-high-school-out-of-895-spots/

Five years ago, just seven Black students were accepted to one of New York City’s top public specialized schools, Stuyvesant High School. This year, 2019, the number was exactly the same. Not much has improved as

04/07/2019

Reparations Are Drastic, But Talking About Them Opens A New Narrative

Moguldom #reparations
https://moguldom.com/190037/opinion-reparations-are-a-drastic-policy-but-talking-about-and-designing-them-opens-a-new-narrative/

Bertha Gilbert, 22, is led away by police after she tried to enter a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn., on May 6, 1964. She is arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. (AP Photo) There has