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The maker of Eskimo Pies will change the 99-year-old brand name of the ice cream treat, the company said Friday — becoming the latest organization to overhaul the marketing of a product with a racially tinged moniker in recent weeks. The owner of the Eskimo Pie, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, said in a statement they …

Virginia governor Ralph Northam hailed an “awakening” on “black oppression” on Wednesday in the wake of the George Floyd demonstrations, while again denying he appeared in a yearbook photo featuring a man in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan regalia. “There’s been an awakening of really what Black oppression is,” Northam told NBC’s Lester …

British officials said Thursday the grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalized in an apparent “retaliation attack” after protesters in the city of Bristol toppled the statue of a prominent slave trader. Two headstones in memory of Scipio Africanus, who lived in Bristol in the 18th century, were smashed. A message scrawled in …

Wayne Brady has opened up about the scary incident which left him fearing that his daughter, Maile Masako Brady, could become a victim of racial profiling. The comedian told “Access Hollywood” that when Maile was 14, she accidentally locked herself out of the family’s Malibu home, setting off an alarm that warned “armed” responders of …

Jennifer Lawrence created a public Twitter account this week to help raise awareness for racial injustice. Despite just now launching her verified account, the Oscar winner is not new to the platform. In 2018, she told InStyle that she had a private account because she preferred to be a “voyeur” and just observe. “I watch, …

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One week after James Gorman announced that Morgan Stanley would diversify its leadership and spend millions to raise up its black executives, a woman who spent 16 years in charge of diversity at the firm called him a hypocrite. Marilyn Booker, a 26-year Morgan Stanley veteran who left in December, is suing the $895 billion …

HBO Max is crafting a “slow and careful” return for “Gone With the Wind” to the streaming service. But actress Queen Latifah is over it already. “Let ‘Gone With the Wind’ be gone with the wind,” the award-winning actress told The Associated Press in a recent interview. HBO Max has been under fire since it …

“Scrubs” co-stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison opened up about their close friendship during heightened racial tensions throughout the US, saying that white people should put more effort into understanding issues that plague minority communities. Braff, 45, said on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Monday that while he feels he had a “leg up in …