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CHICAGO (CBS) — A pair of Chicagoans has turned what essentially started as a joke on social media into an effort to get more Black people to explore nature. Kameron Stanton and Chevon Linear call themselves exactly what they are: Black People Outside. What started as a fun Instagram page has transformed into real-world community […]
In 2018, OG Black beauty gurus Alissa Ashley and Jackie Aina came together to film the viral video “Black Girls React to Tarte Tape Shape Foundation,” which now sits at over five-million views. The video has cemented itself as shade-inclusive iconography, as they called out the brand’s inability to provide a diverse shade range for […]
When Cassidy Jacobson was 13 years old, she posted a video of herself dancing on the popular app TikTok. Little did she know then that six years later her Casssidy_J account would have 1.5 million followers on the short-form video platform with fans drawn to her love of dance and hair care. Jacobson dreams of […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday said they have charged eight individuals in a securities fraud scheme, alleging they reaped about $114 million from by using Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks. The eight men allegedly purported to be successful traders on the social media platforms and then engaged in a so-called […]
PHILADELPHIA — Pariss Chandler built a community for Black tech workers on Twitter that eventually became the foundation for her own recruitment company. Now she’s afraid it could all fall apart if Twitter becomes a haven for racist and toxic speech under the control of Elon Musk, a serial provocateur who has indicated he could loosen […]
In a panel discussion at VidCon moderated by Kat Blaque, Black content creators discussed what it meant to be Black in media, and how it differs from the white creator experience. The discussion featured Matt Smith (@DangMattSmith) Tahj (@Tik.Tok.Tahj), JD Witherspoon (@runjdrun
A new conservation fundraising group, Rewriting Extinction, aims to increase awareness about the biodiversity crisis by reaching out to new audiences. The group has raised about $180,000 for a range of different schemes in South and Central America, Europe and Asia. Critics accuse it of misleading supporters as to how conservation really works and making […]
Anthony and Marlie Love are the creators of “Traveling While Black in Seattle.” They recently visited Portland. courtesy of Anthony and Marlie Love When Anthony and Marlie Love moved to Seattle in 2019, they knew they wanted to explore their new home. The Loves moved from the Midwest, and were uncertain about how they would […]
Anthony and Marlie Love are the creators of “Traveling While Black in Seattle.” They recently visited Portland. courtesy of Anthony and Marlie Love Your browser does not support the audio element. Anthony and Marlie Love created a YouTube channel called “Traveling While Black in Seattle.” In it, they
Dasha smirks at the camera and says in a baby voice: “Hi, I missed you all.” It is 11 March, a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the blond 19-year-old Moscow-based influencer with 126,000 Instagram followers is posting to her stories. “I wasn’t on social media for over a week and I want to […]