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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

04/07/2019

One Of The Few Spaces In New York City Exclusively For Men Of Color

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https://moguldom.com/190361/what-its-like-in-one-of-the-few-spaces-in-new-york-city-exclusively-for-men-of-color/

In addition to starting The Gentlemen’s Factory, Jeff is also the Founder of GroomedSuccess, Inc., a consulting firm that contracts with Government Agencies, Non-Profits, Universities and Foundations to provide, academic, social, and college and career

04/07/2019

Why Driverless Cars Technology May Be Racist Against Black Pedestrians

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https://moguldom.com/191542/why-driverless-cars-technology-may-be-racist/

Photo by Giphy Technology is only as good as its creators and like all else, there is racism in the creation of technology. Experts say the technology used in driverless cars may not only be racist

04/07/2019

Welcome To Afrofuturism. ThIs Is The New Future.

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https://moguldom.com/191365/welcome-to-afrofuturism/

Illustration Provided By: David Adamu It used to be when you saw a movie about the future it was missing someone. Hollywood would often depict a future in a world devoid of Black people. Well, times

03/09/2019

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03/08/2019

The Gayle King – R. Kelly Interview And Other Black Women Who Didn’t Flinch

https://www.blackenterprise.com/gayle-king-r-kelly-black-women-didnt-flinch/

The calmness Gayle King exhibited during her interview with Robert “R. Kelly” Kelly as he lashed out was a reminder of how unshakable black women are. Resolute, black women don’t flinch.

03/07/2019

Black journalists' group places CNN on 'special monitoring list'

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/432714-black-journalists-group-places-cnn-on-special-monitoring-list-citing-lack-of?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=8c533aa3d5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_06_02_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-8c533aa3d5-399358017

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said Tuesday that it would place CNN on a "special media monitoring list," citing a lack of black representation among the network's leadership ranks.

03/05/2019

Meet the Couple Behind One of Baltimore’s Finest Hotels, The Ivy | The Network Journal

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Meet the Couple Behind One of Baltimore’s Finest Hotels, The Ivy
https://tnj.com/meet-the-couple-behind-one-of-baltimores-finest-hotels-the-ivy/

The Browns, who own Brown Capital Management in the city of Baltimore, own several historic properties including the Ivy Hotel.

03/05/2019

Reporter celebrates wearing braids for the first time on-air: 'We are still professionals even if our hair is different'

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/reporter-celebrates-wearing-braids-first-time-air-still-professionals-even-hair-different-234724715.html

"The freedom to wear my hair in a style that is a part of my culture and a skill handed down to me from my mother gives me a stronger sense of self-esteem, self-worth, and confidence as a person and as a woman," says television news reporter AJ Walker.

03/04/2019

A Look At The Cover Of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Upcoming First Novel

https://moguldom.com/183246/a-look-at-the-cover-of-ta-nehisi-coatess-upcoming-first-novel/

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates participates in the first-ever theatrically staged reading of his prize-winning book "Between the World and Me" at the Apollo Theater on Monday, April 2, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP) When

03/04/2019

Popular Podcaster Tracy Clayton Is Returning, Courtesy Netflix

https://moguldom.com/183249/popular-podcaster-tracy-clayton-is-returning-courtesy-netflix/

Courtesy of Shamayim/Netflix One doesn’t normally think of Netflix as producing podcasts, but the streaming entertainment giant just debuted a new podcast. On February 12th, it premiered “Strong Black Lead,” a podcast (iTunes, Spotify, RSS) focusing on

03/04/2019

Not Wasting Time On Podcast Expansion, Spotify Signs Chuck D 8-Part Series

https://moguldom.com/183256/not-wasting-any-time-on-podcast-expansion-spotify-signs-chuck-d-to-8-part-series/

Spotify has expanded into podcasting, and the music streaming giant has added new projects including an eight-episode documentary series with hip-hop legend Chuck D, leader of the band Public Enemy. The eight-part podcast will center around

03/04/2019

Silicon Valley Hides Its Race Problem With The Excuse That Transparency

https://moguldom.com/183265/silicon-valley-hides-its-race-problem-with-the-excuse-that-transparency-would-give-away-trade-secrets/

Building complex in Mountain View, California | Image: Anita Sanikop Despite a continuously expressed commitment to diversity, it seems that some tech companies are withholding their diversity stats by claiming the data are “trade secrets.” Among

03/04/2019

Meet Hollywood’s New Disruptor: Boots Riley, Activist And Filmmaker

https://moguldom.com/183291/meet-hollywoods-new-disruptor-in-chief-boots-riley-musician-activist-and-filmmaker/

Boots Riley isn’t just looking to make blockbuster Hollywood films, he’s looking to shake up Tinsel Town. Following his successful debut feature, “Sorry To Bother You,” the rapper-turned-filmmaker has bigger plans in mind. Riley, 47,

03/04/2019

How Amazon’s Home Security Company Reinforces Racism

https://moguldom.com/183295/how-amazons-home-security-company-reinforces-racism/

Screenshot from Ring.com | Image: Anita Sanikop Things have been developing at Ring, the home security camera company since Amazon purchased it in February 2018 in a $1 billion deal. Three months after the acquisition, Amazon

03/04/2019

Wave Of 300+ Free College Programs Spreads Across US

https://moguldom.com/183308/wave-of-300-free-college-programs-spreads-across-us/

Students walk between classes on campus at Brooklyn College, one of New York's public institutions. Photo Bebeto Matthews, AP With student loan debt skyrocketing to more than $1.56 trillion -- a level approaching a nationwide financial

03/04/2019

Activists Want Apple, Google To Ban Absher App That Tracks Women

https://moguldom.com/183313/human-rights-defenders-want-apple-google-to-ban-saudi-absher-app-that-tracks-women-restricts-freedom/

Apple and Google are under fire for hosting a Saudi government app that helps men track women and stop women from leaving the country. Both tech giants are refusing to comment, but human rights activities

02/25/2019

Pro-Klan editor replaced by African-American woman

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/23/media/alabama-newspaper-klan/index.html

An African-American woman is now the publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to "night ride again," the paper said.

02/12/2019

CLIENT NEWS! ELL Cosme Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar
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02/09/2019

Jill Abramson on plagiarism: 'I have to work to win back some trust'

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/jill-abramson-plagiarism-the-wing-190347970.html

Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson responds to Yahoo Finance's question about plagiarism in her new book, “Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution.”

02/09/2019

Sportscaster Warner Wolf arrested for taking the word 'Plantation' off sign at his gated community - NY Daily News

You go Warner Wolf!
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ny-sports-warner-wolf-arrested-20190208-story.html

That’s a penalty for Warner Wolf.

02/07/2019

Law Professor Goes In On Kamala Harris: She Was Not A Progressive Prosecutor – Moguldom

https://moguldom.com/173619/law-professor-goes-in-on-kamala-harris-she-was-not-a-progressive-prosecutor/