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Via Yelp Williamsburg, the Meatpacking District of Brooklyn, now has its very own club-related sexual harassment lawsuit—a handful of employees at nightclub Verboten on North 11th Street are suing their employers, alleging that owner Jen Schiffer, her husband, and her boyfriend (yep) openly discussed their sex lives, barraged employees with sexual advances and, in…
Kristen Sze’s tweet Twitter /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Kristen Sze, an ABC news anchor in San Francisco, felt the wrath of Twitter when she had the audacity to question the price of Sasha and Malia Obama’s state-dinner dresses. According to Sze, the gowns ranged in price from $17,000-$20,000, and she deemed them “too expensive” for such…
digitalundivided is a groundbreaking organization focused on Black and Latina women founders. Their latest effort, #ProjectDiane, is a major study of venture funding, Black women founders, and startups, and the findings are out now. In our last issue, Kara Melton highlighted how Black women lead entrepreneurship — indeed, creating the very business models the startup…
While checking VSB’s analytics earlier this week, I came across some demographic information that informed me we have a larger White readership than I assumed. I knew we had a good percentage, but the actual number has grown since I last checked. This (obviously) means there are quite a few White people reading this right now. And…
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Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. She had been Instacart’s 20th employee, managing operations during a period of extremely rapid growth, and the sum could have been…
Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both. In the news release on Monday, following the shooting, police…
The mayor of Inglewood was speaking out after a man and woman were shot and killed by police. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (Published Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016) Both the man and woman who were mortally wounded during an officer involved shooting were unconscious when Inglewood police…
An activist challenged Hillary Clinton’s record on race Feb. 24, during a private fundraising event in Charleston, S.C. (YouTube/#NotASuperpredator) It happened rather quickly. Ashley Williams showed up Wednesday at a private fundraiser in Charleston, S.C., where former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was in the middle of delivering what may well have been the umpteenth…
At a private Charleston, South Carolina, residence, surrounded by around 100 supporters, Hillary Clinton was interrupted by a Black Lives Matter activist who unfurled a sign quoting the former first lady on so-called “Superpredators,” the widely prevailing 1990s junk-science criminology that the usually African-American juvenile offenders of the time were irredeemable and would undoubtedly grow to terrorize…