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Alison Roman is lending her voice in support of Bon Appétit BIPOC staffers, weeks after making controversial comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. The 34-year-old food columnist, who used to work for Bon Appétit, spoke up against the company’s biases and defended her former colleagues after Adam Rapoport, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, resigned over a …

Billionaire Leon Black wants to go to the mat with America’s largest mattress maker. Black’s Apollo Global Management — together with investment firms Angelo Gordon and Gamut Capital — is gearing up to sue Serta Simmons over its efforts to lower its $2.4 billion debt stack through a refinancing because it never agreed to the …

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Thursday the iPhone maker will increase spending with black-owned partners in its supply chain and seek to increase minority representation among the firms it does business with. Cook made the remarks in a video posted to Twitter announcing a $100 million racial equity and justice initiative in the …

A top Condé Nast video editor has resigned over complaints of racial bias in the workplace — marking the publishing giant’s second high-profile departure in recent days over racial issues. Matt Duckor, head of Condé Nast Entertainment’s fast-growing lifestyle video programming, stepped down amid allegations that he didn’t feature people of color in Bon Appétit …

Stassi Schroeder’s podcast, “Straight Up With Stassi,” has been dropped by all major platforms after she was fired from “Vanderpump Rules” after making a false police report on her former castmate Faith Stowers. Radio.com released a statement Wednesday saying, “We recently learned of racially charged and inappropriate actions by Stassi Schroeder during one of her …

After a companywide meeting at Condé Nast about diversity on Tuesday, former employees railed against the publishing giant, with some accusing it of racism. Former staffer Shelby Ivey Christie wrote on Twitter, “My time at Vogue, at Condé Nast, was the most challenging + miserable time of my career — The bullying + testing from …

Russell Simmons denied allegations of sexual assault during a radio interview Wednesday, leading one of his accusers to blast the program for giving the hip hop mogul a platform. The 62-year-old music producer spoke out on “The Breakfast Club” when co-host Charlamagne tha God asked him about the new HBO Max docuseries “On the Record,” …

It has been confirmed that Paul ‘Tonka’ Chapman, the former UFO guitarist, died at the age of 66 yesterday. The musician’s family confirmed the sad news on his Facebook page. The statement read: “It is with a heavy heart writing this, today is my dad’s 66th birthday. He passed away earlier this afternoon. “He was …

Alia Shawkat issued a lengthy apology after a video of her using the n-word resurfaced on social media. The “Arrested Development” and “Search Party” actress has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 25. However, people called …

Cookbook author Alison Roman is in hot water — again. The Brooklyn food writer, 34, was accused of wearing an offensive Halloween costume in 2008, weeks after she was scorned for “tone-deaf remarks” about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo in an interview. Writer Yashar Ali tweeted out photos that a source sent him from Roman’s …