Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Hollywood’s diversity problem looks a little better after the Oscars. But it still has a long way to go.
Category: African-American
Dr. Alveda King: Sen. Warren Used the King Name to Stir Up Emotions
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reacts to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife in the Senate. The Senate voted along party lines in favor of a rule that essentially silenced Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night after she quoted from a letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, Coretta Scott King, during her criticism of Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick for Attorney General.
Republicans vote to silence Elizabeth Warren for reading…
Republicans voted to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Tuesday night, during a Senate floor debate over Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination as President Donald Trump’s attorney general. Warren, who is among the Democratic senators opposing Sessions’ appointment, attempted to read from a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King, the wife of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped Warren, alleging her recitation of the letter violated Senate rule 19, which forbids conduct “unbecoming” of a senator.
Diversity report: Boards adding women, minorities – but very slowly
Carla Carstens, photographed Feb. 6, 2017, serves on the board of an Ohio-based trust and says women are still underrepresented in corporate boardrooms. She is not affiliated with a new report on board diversity.
How Blacks Took Banking Into Their Own Hands
Many folks try to make a dollar out of 15 cents, but African Americans don’t always take those nickels and dimes to a bank. More than 18% of African Americans don’t have traditional bank accounts, compared with 7% of all Americans, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. But where banks don’t fill the bill, communities have created their own solutions, including grassroots traditions and minority-owned banks and credit unions.
Lawsuit: Dude ranch owner asked chef for ‘black people food’
A federal lawsuit accuses the ex-wife of Oklahoma energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens of racial discrimination at her rural Nevada dude ranch. The lawsuit says wealthy philanthropist Madeleine Pickens told the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in California to cook “black people food,” not “white people food,” at the Elko County ranch.