In her debut Sprite commercial, Sha’Carri Richardson stayed true to her defiant persona as part of the beverage company’s reimagined “Obey Your Thirst” campaign. The world’s fastest woman made history as Sprite’s first female partner, and her 30-second spot highlighted her refusal to conform to outside pressures. The commercial features Richardson standing firm against various […]
David Steward, the majority shareholder and co-founder of World Wide Technology (WWT), has seen his net worth dip recently. His fortune, which reached $12.3 billion in April and made him America’s wealthiest Black billionaire, has decreased by half a billion dollars over the last two weeks. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Steward’s net worth […]
The overall risk of dying from cancer in the United States has been steadily declining over the last few decades. However, Black women continue to face some of the lowest survival rates from the disease. Despite being less likely to be diagnosed with cancer compared to white women, Black women are more likely to die […]
WNBA star Brittney Griner has shared her harrowing experiences during her nearly 10-month imprisonment in Russia in her new memoir, Coming Home, which debuted Tuesday at No. 1 on Amazon’s best-sellers list. Brittney Griner details her arrest, imprisonment in notorious Russian penal colonies, and her challenges as a Black gay woman in a Russian prison […]
Rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg played a crucial role in the early days of Reddit, the popular social news website and forum created in 2005 by University of Virginia students Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Reddit’s initial vision, to become “the front page of the Internet,” was supported by startup incubator Y Combinator, which provided […]
