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When Saturday Night Live announced that it was hiring its first ever Latina cast member last week, it was landmark moment in the history of the show. Mexican-American comedian Melissa Villaseñor, 28, is part of a minority that is sorely represented when it comes to the likes of mainstream comedy. Yet her recruiting already has…
Donald J. Trump has a cruel streak. He willfully causes pain and distress to others. And he repeats this public behavior so frequently that it’s fair to call it a character trait. Any single example would be off-putting but forgivable. Being shown many examples across many years should make any decent person recoil in disgust….
This was supposed to be a rant about why it makes no sense for Salesforce to buy Twitter. But like the kids say, life comes at you fast*. So now we’re on to Disney. It’s not insane to imagine that Disney would think about maybe kinda taking a look at Twitter, as Bloomberg is reporting….
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September 24th, 2016: The day I reached my final form as a Fashion God. My two year battle with Adidas and Kanye West has finally come to a close and left me the supreme victor. All of my anger, sadness, and disappointment finally felt worth it. This is a fable unlike other Yeezy tales, ones…
It wasn’t a particularly fashionable choice when I wore these shirts in public – the shirts he left were usually his oldest and most worn-in ones; they were softer and they smelled like him but they didn’t look great. They also didn’t fit in the way “boyfriend” clothes are supposed to. Most men are actually…
CBS Interactive, Condé Nast, ESPN, Hearst and News Corp to anchor the cooperative of more than 25 magazine, TV, newspaper and native digital brands New York, NY—(September 26, 2016)—Digital Content Next (DCN), the only trade association exclusively dedicated to trusted, high-quality digital content brands, today announced the creation of a cooperative digital advertising marketplace, TrustX, designed to…
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…
During a time of chaos and frustration, bringing a disheartened community together is just what Free Hugs Project founder Ken Nwadike is trying to do. On Wednesday night, Ken walked the streets of downtown Charlotte, NC, wearing a “Free Hugs” t-shirt in an attempt to spread love among a crowd of angry and frustrated citizens….
As the nation reels from a series of high-profile fatal shootings of black men by police officers, many have decried the lack of readily available data on how racial bias factors into American policing. But while it’s true that there is no adequate federal database of fatal police shootings (F.B.I. director James Comey has described…