For Savage x Fenty, Rihanna’s lingerie and beauty brand, diversity and inclusion are in the brand’s DNA. “There’s no other way that our brand could be,” Christiane Pendarvis, the company’s copresident and chief merchandising and design officer, said during a panel discussion at this year’s virtual NRF Chapter One conference…
The constraints of the current moment have necessitated more metaphorical, dispersed gatherings in the form of virtual cinema (VOD as branded by art-house theaters and theatrical distributors). Thats currently the only available option for the ordinarily itinerant Acropolis Cinema in Los Angeles. Since its founding four years ago, Acropolis has…
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Apple announced several new projects as part of its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI) on Wednesday, including the funding of a 50,000-square foot learning center in Atlanta. The company first made the initiative public at its Worldwide Developer Conference back in June. In the wake of the…
MONTREAL — Air Canada says it will cut 1,700 jobs as it scales down operations in response to a new wave of lockdown restrictions. The 25 per cent reduction in service for the first quarter of 2021 will also affect 200 employees at Air Canada’s Express carriers, the company said…
The U.S. House of Representatives is looking to impeach Donald Trump for a second time today, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi submitted papers for impeachment in the wake of the attacks on the U.S. Capitol. If the Senate were to vote in favor of impeachment, this would mean several things, perhaps…
The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper was on the ground when the pro-Trump mob violently stormed the U.S. Capitol, and the footage makes for unsurprisingly bleak viewing. During the course of the video above we see Trump supporters ranting to Klepper about a “fraudulent election,” touting unfounded conspiracy theories, and eventually…
Gainful, a startup offering personalized subscriptions to protein powders and hydration products, is announcing that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. COO Eric Wu, who founded the company with CTO Jahaan Ansari, told me that Gainful began with his own experience experimenting different protein powders and eventually…
Netflix’s head of inclusion strategy Vernā Myers released on Wednesday the streaming company’s first inclusion report, which details its progress on diversity, the strategies that moved the needle, and where it needs to do better. Netflix, which also publishes its diversity data every quarter, shared in the report that Black…