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Hit by pandemic losses, NBCUniversal begins layoffs
Read more: Hit by pandemic losses, NBCUniversal begins layoffsNBCUniversal has started to lay off employees as it seeks to stem the financial toll of the coronavirus while positioning itself for a broader transition toward streaming entertainment, a person familiar with the company’s plans said Tuesday. The cuts will affect less than 10 percent of NBCUniversal’s overall workforce of 35,000 employees, according to the…
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BTS, Doja Cat and J Balvin Set to Perform at the VMAs
Read more: BTS, Doja Cat and J Balvin Set to Perform at the VMAsBTS will perform their new single ‘Dynamite,’ which is set for release on Aug. 21. BTS, Doja Cat and J Balvin are booked to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards, which are set to air live on Sunday, Aug. 30 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. This will be the first VMAs performance for both BTS and Doja Cat, and…
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CDC links red onions to salmonella outbreak across the U.S., Canada
Read more: CDC links red onions to salmonella outbreak across the U.S., CanadaNearly 400 people in 34 states have fallen ill from a salmonella outbreak linked to red onions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. At least 396 people have been infected with salmonella, a bacteria that can cause diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, from six hours to six days after exposure, according to the CDC. The…
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Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2020 With ‘Folklore’
Read more: Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2020 With ‘Folklore’Taylor Swift’s Folklore flies in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, capturing the biggest week for any album since Swift’s last release, 2019’s Lover. Folkore was released with little advance notice on July 24 and earns Swift her seventh No. 1 album. Folklore starts with 846,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 30,…
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260 employees in Georgia’s largest school district test positive for or exposed to coronavirus
Read more: 260 employees in Georgia’s largest school district test positive for or exposed to coronavirusAround 260 employees in Georgia’s largest school district have been “excluded from work” after testing positive for the coronavirus or being exposed to the virus, the county told NBC News on Monday. Sloan Roach, a spokesperson for the Gwinnett County School District — which has an estimated 180,000 students in the Atlanta Metro area — said…
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Toni Braxton to Release 10th Album ‘Spell My Name’ Next Month, Drops ‘Dance’ Single
Read more: Toni Braxton to Release 10th Album ‘Spell My Name’ Next Month, Drops ‘Dance’ SingleGrammy award-winning R&B artist Toni Braxton announced Friday (July 31) she’ll release her 10th studio album Spell My Name on Aug. 28 via Island Records. In tandem with the news, she released the single “Dance,” a nu-disco club-ready banger that serves as an antidote for any heartbreak, which R&B hitmaker Antonio Dixon (Beyoncé, Teddy Riley, Ariana Grande) produced. She previously released…
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Azealia Banks Shaves Her Head: ‘I’m About to Be Bald Like Seal’
Read more: Azealia Banks Shaves Her Head: ‘I’m About to Be Bald Like Seal’Azealia Banks has decided to shave it all off. The 29-year-old “212” rapper took to her Instagram Stories on Saturday (Aug. 1) to share a series of before-and-after videos of herself shaving her head completely bald. “I’m about to have my Britney Spears moment,” she joked. “I feel like Britney b—h on some 2007 s–t. I’m going to shave my…
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Trump says he’s banning TikTok in the U.S.
Read more: Trump says he’s banning TikTok in the U.S.President Donald Trump said on Friday night that he would ban the popular video sharing app TikTok. “As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after a fundraising trip to Florida. Trump described the action as “severance” and said…
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Supreme Court allows border wall construction to continue
Read more: Supreme Court allows border wall construction to continueThe U.S. Supreme Court late Friday declined to let lower court rulings go into effect that would stop the Trump administration from spending any more Pentagon money on the border wall. The court denied a request from the Sierra Club, which had said that unless the justices acted, the government would be able to finish…
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Video of police abuses and the NYPD trampling the Constitution reveal inefficacy of ‘reform’
Read more: Video of police abuses and the NYPD trampling the Constitution reveal inefficacy of ‘reform’Amid a summer of protest sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, much has been said about the importance of “reforming” police departments. But what if those departments cannot be reformed? This week, a video went viral showing the arrest of a young trans woman during a protest. The 18-year-old woman was tackled in broad daylight…
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The future of African fashion, post-Covid-19
Read more: The future of African fashion, post-Covid-19Vogue.com— The Covid-19 pandemic has turned the African fashion industry on its head. Designer production is halted, fashion shows and events are postponed or moved online, and brands have had to scramble to set up proper online businesses to make up for sales lost to store closures. As the global fashion industry grapples with the effects of the pandemic,…
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