Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of
Amid demands by civil rights leaders and others for employers to improve foundering diversity on Silicon Valley, Facebook has been slow to build a workforce…
Just a week after the Charleston shooting massacre that killed nine Black churchgoers, a Texarkana, Texas woman is catching heat after alleging that she was “jumped by 3 African-Americans” in a Facebook post when, in fact, she fabricated the event and applied makeup to make her face appear injured. In her Facebook post, now deleted, Ashley Casey […]
Lark Voorhies recently heard a new kind of bell: wedding bells. The 41-year-old Saved by the Bell star eloped to Vegas to secretly marry music engineer boyfriend Jimmy Green. According to TMZ, Voorhies met Green on Facebook a year ago, and the two had an instant connection. This is the couple’s second wedding following a commitment […]
Hillary Clinton is makin’ moves this presidential election, reaching out to her fellow Americans in the way we all seem to communicate with each other nowadays – that’s right, she joined Instagram. If you’re looking to gain Insta followers yourself, the obvious solution seems to be to run for prez. Clinton gained almost 10,000 new followers and over 1,000 likes […]
We’ve all watched the humiliating videos of parents “teaching their kids” a lesson by giving them “old man” haircuts. And while they’ve garnered tons of attention online, the haircuts are a pretty embarrassing and extreme way to discipline children. Now, a Florida father is gaining attention for taking shaming videos to another level. His discipline trick? Don’t […]
Dave Goldberg, CEO of survey site SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg, has tragically passed away at the age of 47. Mark Zuckerberg says that Goldberg died during a vacation with his wife Sheryl. His brother, Robert Goldberg, shared the news via Facebook, saying: It’s with incredible shock and sadness that I’m letting our friends […]
Ben Affleck has issued an apology for hiding information about his ancestors on the PBS show Finding Your Roots. The actor took to his Facebook page to discuss why he decided to ask show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. and producers to take out the information that one of his distant relatives owned slaves. Gates spoke out about the episode […]
Twenty years after its release, The Lion King is still giving children from all over the world a serious case of the feels. Don’t believe…
In a groundbreaking court ruling, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice says a 26-year-old nurse can serve her estranged husband with divorce papers in a Facebook message, the New York Daily News reports. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper writes in a ruling that Ellanora Baidoo, a Brooklyn nurse, may use Facebook to serve divorce papers […]
Kyesha Smith Wood, a mother of three, broke the internet this week when she issued an apology on behalf of her daughters’ rude behavior towards another mother at a movie theater in Alabama. Wood dropped her son, daughter, and step-daughter off at the movies and afterwards, was informed by her son that the two 13-year-old girls were […]
Did Erica Mena and Shad “Bow Wow” Moss officially tie the knot? Yesterday, the CSI Cyber actor took to Facebook to show his girl Erica some much deserved appreciation. He wrote: “Its an honor to see where you started to where your at now. To watch a woman grow and teach her the lessons on business […]
