The broadcasting giant announced a new limited series titled “Colin in Black and White” by Ava DuVernay, based on Kaepernick’s high school years. Kaepernick will appear in the series and add his own voice to the project. The limited series will run for six episodes and reunites DuVernay with Michael …
Read More »Chase Rice criticized for packed concert in Tennessee
Rice shared images of her show, held Saturday on the grounds of Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, in Instagram stories, which disappear after 24 hours. Since then, the video has been shared on several other social media accounts. Brushy Mountain is a former prison more than 130 miles …
Read More »Shane Dawson is the last great YouTuber to apologize for racist videos
The last star to walk this family path is also one of the platform’s first success stories. Shane Dawson, who has been active on YouTube for 12 years and whose main channel has 22.6 million subscribers, recently posted a video apologizing, among other things, for using blackface and saying the …
Read More »Here’s the impact on revenue Facebook will take when Diageo and Starbucks join the list of companies pulling ads from the platform.
Facebook shares fell in pre-market trading on Monday, after Diageo and Starbucks became the latest companies to stop advertising on social media platforms for ineffective surveillance of hate speech. Shares of the social networking company FB, -2.48%, which operates Instagram and WhatsApp, in addition to its eponymous platform, fell more …
Read More »Blue Ivy Carter wins first BET award
The young woman collected her first BET Award on Sunday, sharing it with her mother, WizKid and Saint Jhn for the single “Brown Skin Girl”. The collaboration won the BET HER Award and made Carter the youngest winner of all the BET Awards, which celebrated their 20th anniversary on Sunday. …
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