Soccer player Crystal Dunn, 29, who will be competing alongside her teammates on the U.S. women’s national soccer team in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer told The Undefeated that she feels unappreciated. “I feel like someone has dimmed my light in a sense,” Dunn said. The two-time Olympian has been very successful in her career. Since […]
Media mogul Byron Allen filed a $10 billion lawsuit against McDonald’s Corp on Thursday, alleging the fast-food franchise is discriminating against Black-owned media companies such as his own. According to Bloomberg, Allen said McDonald’s spent less than 1% of its $1.6 billion ad budget with Black-owned media companies in 2019. “This is about economic inclusion of African American-owned businesses in the U.S. […]
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Oklahoma Superintendent Doesn’t Seem to Understand a Black Mother’s Outrage After Her Children Were Punished for Wearing BLM T-shirts An Oklahoma mother says her 8-year-old son was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school. Ben Stapleton, a third grader at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore, was informed by the principal during […]
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Pop singer Justin Bieber released his sixth studio album on Friday, and though it has received positive reviews, the 27-year-old earned the ire of the Black community for incorporating speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. in an album with few references to social activism or social justice. The first words spoken on the album Justice are […]