By Todd Spangler
09.06.2020 - 01:33 / eonline.com
Authors are speaking up. Amid worldwide protests over the death of George Floyd and reignited momentum in the Black Lives Matter movement, various industries are facing a reckoning over their alleged discriminatory practices and inequality.
Now, the literary world has joined in the public conversation to expose pay disparities between white authors and black authors. The public Twitter discussion initially sparked over the weekend after Beasts Made of Night author Tochi Onyebuchi tweeted,
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Ben Higgins and Ashley Iacnoetti are addressing the criticism they received for denouncing Hannah Brown’s use of the N-word.
Twitter is sick of seeing performative activism by celebs who are apparently problematic behind the scenes.
The Queen's Commonwealth Trust, of which Queen Elizabeth II is patron, Prince Harry is president, and Meghan Markle is vice president, tweeted support for Black Lives Matter Monday, as protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by white police officer Derek Chauvin continue across the U.S.
Twitter’s CEO is helping Colin Kaepernick‘s cause.
Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic is facing backlash after he recently praised the hard-line calls of President Trump in which he threatened to send in the military to restore order at nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death if governors didn’t do it. “Wow!!! I know many of you can’t stand him, however, Trump knocked it out of the park with this speech,” Novoselic wrote on his personal Facebook page.
Snap, the company that runs Snapchat, revealed on June 3 that they will no longer be promoting President Donald Trump‘s account on the Discover page for news and stories. The social media giant said in a statement to Axios that the demotion is due to Trump’s “violent” comments offline and on Twitter about the George Floyd protests and protestors.
"You don't know a thing about me"
By Klaritza Rico
Jay-Z praised Minnesota Governor Tim Walz following the announcement on Sunday that the state’s attorney general would take the lead on any charges brought against the officers involved in the death of George Floyd.
People are NOT happy with Virgil Abloh‘s show of support for those protesting George Floyd‘s death across the country.
There have been reports going around that Donald Trump took shelter in a bunker amid the explosive Black Lives Matter protests and people on social media have been mocking him a lot, some posts even comparing his actions to what Hitler also did in the past when things stopped going his way! The outrage over the president’s response to the George Floyd situation has been taking over Twitter. That being said, these posts have been filled with anger but also mocking and calling Trump out.
The PlayStation 5 event that was set to take place this Thursday has now been postponed.
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who is the artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear, is under fire for his donation amount to the (F)EMPOWER Community Bond Fund amid the George Floyd protests
Love Island star Charlie Brake has deleted his Twitter account after being called a racist for a tweet he sent out.The 25 year old millionaire provoked anger after retweeting and commenting on an inflammatory tweet from Donald Trump which was referring to Americans rioting in the wake of George Floyd being killed by a police officer.