It’s always fun to see what creations Maya’s Cookies in San Diego, will come up with. Made with all vegan products but non vegans alike enjoy the popular cookies as well, the No. 1 Black-owned vegan company in the country is masterful at creating innovative recipes. A customer favorite, the limited-edition “The Obama,” a veganized […]
A huge congratulations go out to Rosalind Brewer! Brewer, is currently the chief operating officer at Starbucks announced that she’s stepping down at the end of February. The reason she is leaving the company shatters another glass ceiling for women: she will become the only black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Brewer will
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San Diego based Maya’s Cookies, a Black-owned vegan bakery hosted its grand opening party and ribbon cutting ceremony at new storefront on Friday, November 6. The festivities started at 10 am, with VIP guests, and giveaways which included Maya’s gourmet vegan cookies —Obama, a limited edition that originally released on the former presidents birthday
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Urban One announced in Tuesday that veteran television executive Michelle L. Rice has been named President of TV One and CLEO TV. Since February 2018, Rice has served as General Manager with full management oversight of TV One, the general entertainment network serving a diverse audience of adult Black viewers, and spearheaded the 2019 launch of CLEO TV, an aspirational cable network
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A few years ago The Chocolate Voice had the opportunity to interview millennial Austin Martin, the brilliance behind Rhymes with Reason, an app designed to strengthen the vocabulary and English skills of today’s youth. Martin, who was named in the 2020 Forbes list 30 under 30 in education, got the idea to develop the educational app
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NBCUniversal today earlier this week that Janine Jones-Clark has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Inclusion – Talent & Content, NBCUniversal Film, Television and Streaming. Jones-Clark will retain oversight of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG)’s diversity, inclusion and equity strategies, and will add NBCUniversal’s entertainment, streaming and television studio teams to her purview. She will continue
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By: Frank Mangio Sometime during the 2019 season my love of baseball (read Boston Red Sox in last place) sunk into the San Diego sunset just as my love of NBA basketball rose like a fireball when Lebron James came to L.A. to play for the Lakers and San Diego State Alum Kawhi Leonard was
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Acclaimed producer/director Reginald Hudlin is set to make Hollywood history when he becomes the first-ever Black executive producer of the Primetime Emmys. As former president of entertainment for BET, Hudlin co-produced the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in 2016 as well as the 44 through 48th NAACP Image Awards. Hudlin’s breakout film was 1990’s House Party and he worked
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By DL White The coronavirus has caused many major conventions, national events, sports and life in general to navigate different paths to facilitate business. The challenges were no less for the members of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., that make up the massive and mighty 12th District, which stretches from the deserts of Arizona,
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As corporations move towards a reconciliation in how to combat racism and support the Black community in the wake of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests, Nike, (NKE) adds Juneteenth to the list of its official company holidays. CEO John Donahoe made the announcement in a letter to employees Thursday. Nike joins CEO Jack
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