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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 …

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 …

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 …

Apple could announce plans this month to swap out Intel chips with its own processors in Mac computers, a new report says. The tech giant is getting ready to make the switch official at its Worldwide Developers Conference that starts on June 22, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. The annual event will be held online because …

Bon Appétit’s longtime Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport resigned Monday evening after a photo surfaced that showed him in brownface. A freelance writer for the Condé Nast-owned foodie magazine on Monday unearthed and posted a 2013 photo, originally posted on Instagram by Rapoport’s wife Simone Shubuck, that shows the couple seemingly in brownface for an apparent Halloween …

Apple is adding more benefits to lure customers into getting its credit card. Apple Card holders will soon be able to buy a wider selection of the iPhone-maker’s products on interest-free installment plans spread out over 12 or 24 months. While the installment offer had previously only been available for the iPhone, it will soon …

It was 1974. Jack Teich. Kidnapped at his LI home. The $750,000 ransom (equal to today’s $4 mil) never fully recovered — although now he has. I know Jack Teich. He’s my friend lawyer Barry Slotnick’s friend, and he’s now out with just-published “Operation Jacknap: A True Story of Kidnapping, Extortion, Ransom, and Rescue.” Why …