Chicago Tonight co-anchor Brandis Friedman said she was talking to WTTW News news director Hugo Balta recently about expanding her role at Channel 11. I said something about, You know, Im really interested in having a little more ownership of something. Not that I dont love the show that I…

NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Future PLC  (FUTR.L ) today announces that Fall TV begins this afternoon, commencing a month-long, all-virtual Fall TV 2020  event, co-produced by Future PLC  (FUTR.L ) with industry-leading publications Broadcasting + Cable , Multichannel News , NEXT I TV  and TVTechnology. The event formerly known as NYC TV Week is now…

CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) A group of millennial women are donating to small Black-owned businesses during the pandemic in “Operation: Can I Speak To Your Manager.” Co-founder of the group Ciara Jasso says normally when someone asks for a manager, it’s normally a bad thing. But she said this social media initiative…

Kimberly Bryant, founder of the nonprofit group Black Girls Code, recalls the spontaneous encounters with other people of color around the office that gave her a sense of belonging as she forged a career as an engineer. The wave in the cafeteria, the smile in the elevator, the nod in…

Ankita Ajith can recall learning about slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. But looking back, Ajith, now a student at Northwestern University, also vividly remembers how superficial those conversations were, and how much she wishes that her…

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. (CNN)Labor Day makes us think of trips to see friends and family, backyard barbecues and a few last, lazy moments of summertime…

California hasn’t had a racial majority since 2000, according to census data. But you wouldn’t know it from looking in boardrooms. Of the 662 publicly traded companies in the state, 233 have all-white boards, according to the Latino Corporate Directors Association. Those numbers could change dramatically if Gov. Gavin Newsom…

Long before shed earned the honorifics of La Diva, La Caballota, or La Potra, Puerto Rican rapper Ivy Queen was a pigtailed newcomer whose panties rose above her baggy pants. This was Martha Ivelisse Pesante Rodríguezs look when she infamously auditioned for The Noise, the Puerto Rican collective and nightclub…

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — California youth advocates applauded the state legislature for taking a critical step this week to close the state’s youth prison system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), a move that now offers a historic opportunity to advance racial equity and transform the youth justice…

What does the history of violence in El Salvador reveal about the United States? Thats one thing Salvadoran-American author and journalist Roberto Lovato seeks to uncover in his new book, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Through searing yet elegant prose, Lovato explores his…