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Lamborghini Launches The World's Fastest SUV: The Urus

Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, Lamborghini launches the world's fastest SUV called the Urus, starting at USD $200,000.

Yes Please.

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Facing My Past to Get to My Future (part one.)

Look where you’ve been to determine who you’re becoming.” -Chani Nicholas 

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Naked and Alone in Chicago -OR- Naked and Afraid

Chicago | Fev. 2018

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Uber’s next gambit to maintain your loyalty is a credit card | Fast Company

Uber, in partnership with Barclays, is launching its own Visa credit card and loyalty program to better satisfy its customer base and keep them coming back. It has been a tough year for Uber. A January campaign to #deleteUber accused the ride-hailing app of trying to capitalize on a protest at New York’s JFK airport … Continue reading “Uber’s next gambit to maintain your loyalty is a credit card”

I kind of totally want one.

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Sounds like an ideal time to change industries if you ask us.

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One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end

At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news…

The more you know.

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Port of Long Beach and Long Beach Transit Look to Diversify Small Business Contractors and Vendors

For small, minority, disabled veteran and women owned businesses looking to do business with the Port of Long Beach and other regional transit authoritie...

Props to the transit authorities of Long Beach and the Port, who held a phenomenally informational event helping small, women owned, minority and veteran owned businesses learn how to become certified as an SBE in California and do business with Long Beach and other transit entities in the community. #LAtransit #LongBeach #publictransit #smallbusiness

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Welcome to Hollyhock

“Why im the ashiest of ALL the Larry’s in the land rn #prettysocial https://t.co/nekR6RsM5W”

Arrival to Hollyhock left me with no bags and dry skin. But have you noticed how beautiful British Columbia is?

Located at the northern end of the Salish Sea, This is the land of the indigenous Coast Salish First Nation. The Klahoose First Nation and their traditional territory stretches from Cortes Island to Toba Inlet.

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A rare day in #LongBeach where I'm indoors, windows shut, both a/c units on blast. Except I needed to go to Sally's and get this wig snatched all the way BACK.

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You Should be at Web of Change 2017

Web of Change over the course of seventeen years has become many things to many people. For me it's become the most nurturing professional space I've

Its an honor to be serving at one of the 2017 Co-Event Chairs for Web of Change Cortes Island. Changemakers, visionaries, technologists, artists and activists of all background, this is the place and space created just for you.

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{THURSDAY VIBES} Forever &  A Day // Ki-2 featuring Jasmé Kelly

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As you've probably heard by now, Pepsi released an ad yesterday featuring Kendall Jenner (who BTW, is probably the most palatable of the Kardashian Klan, but thats a post for another day), that pretty much everyone with in distance of any internet access anywhere read for filth.

 WHY? Depending where you are on the political spectrum, much of what is happening in America is not to be made light of. Less than one hundred days into the new presidency, many have felt fear around the direction of the nation and understandably so. All change can be scary. Especially change you personally feel you have little to no control of. What Pepsi did, understandably was well intentioned, but in the current climate it did come across a bit..."Hey! Let's exploit peoples pain and fear, and possible propensity for activism to sell soda." 

 Plus, I'm from Atlanta so let me just insert here: PEPSI IS GROSS. 

Now that thats out of my system (pun intended). It's also WAY questionable how everyone involved with this advert thought it was a good idea. Which speaks to a bigger issue on a lack -OR- a refusal of authentic diversity and creative thought in major corporations and the consulting and ad firms they hire to carry out their vision. Because there was an actual episode of Keeping up w/ the Kardashians where Kim is encouraging her family to be more socially active and this was Kendall's effort, we do feel a tiny bit bad, she's been caught up in the midst of this controversy. However, even a Kardashian should know the way to impact ones community has nothing to do with a soda can. At all.

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#neverforget

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Watch the #prettysocial weekly wrap up!

Will Donald Trump ever get off Twitter and stop hiring family members? Is Ivanka the only thing standing between the free world and the apocalypse?

Bill O’Reilly came for Congresswoman Maxine Water on Fox and Friends and he was not sent for.

Friend of the family Kenya Parham hosts latest installment of her civic engagement thinktank, Parlay and the Souths own David Banner shuts it down

LBJ and the #prettysocial-lites hit Los Angeles, biking on the beach and spending some QT with Lena Waithe and Issa Rae

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Issa Rae x Lena Waithe  //  aSip

During “aSip”, Black media Goddess Issa Rae hosted an intimate, hilarious, talk with producer, writer and actor Lena Waithe.

Waithe spoke on how Black women in Hollywood really do go to work for each other in ways rarely reported or discussed. But Waithe received one of her big breaks, by getting noticed by Mara Brock-Akil while working on Girlfriends, who referred her to Gina Prince-Blythewood, which ultimately led her to work for Ava DuVernay. Giving Waithe opportunities to hone her craft and ultimately become a writer/producer/director in the same class as all of the above.

As a fellow Black woman writer, Lena is a model by which I truly aspire to live. Hearing her discuss with Rae the intricacies of her grind, assisting during the day, logging reality show tape at night, it was such a beautiful testament of what it takes to make it in Hollywood and also that as a Black woman, that work pays off.

I was introduced to her as a producer of the  ground breaking film Dear White People while working for the tech company driving the content manager for the Dear White People  website. The white people in my office were floored by the dynamic trailer. In a good way. They felt refreshed by the honest thoughts of the Black characters, they couldn’t believe they were getting so much inside access to the minds of collegiate black folks, as Lena describes it, “you never see Black people contemplating on screen.” Something she has worked to change through her won work. Nonetheless, before it ever came out, my co-workers obsessive fawning basically ruined the film for me.

But there’s a reason it was released to mass critical acclaim. And its only one of many brilliant projects Waithe has put her name on in recent years. Next up if you haven’t heard are the Netflix version of Dear White People, Waithe’s own project “The Chi” which is in pre-production w/ Showtime now.

P.S. Then theres the brawl I narrowly avoided on the Blue line trying to get to the show that night. #BecauseLongBeach

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The always inspiring Keesha Gaskins-Nathan shared this with me post Election Day and before I had decided human interaction was actually a good thing. What writer Stephanie Phillip lays out is accurate but also not new. There's a pivotol scene in Dreamgirls that illustrates her point about the value of Black creativity and how willing others are to co-opt those ideas, without credit, for profit. So why am I reacting to this now? Something Phillips said has been stuck in my craw since the moment I read it: Why do it seem all of our great thinkers are resigned to Twitter? One possibility is Twitter gives space for a myriad of ideas networks and print media reject or see as unworthy because they are too steeped in culture, dialect, concepts not well known to the mainstream. Black Twitter is fascinating to many because it almost feels like you've found the back door into the clubhouse and no one minds if you slide in the back and watch the show. But the real question, how to monetize? Who owns what on the internet will be the next battle as the race to 5G continues to eclipse any progress toward legislation around ownership of ideas published on the web. Black ideas are what we say they're worth. The problem isn't Twitter, or that great thinkers have been forced to social media to be great, but a cultural compulsion to share jewels with village gratis.

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The Paley Center is happy to partner with Essence for The Power of Our Presence - An Exhibition Celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards. This exhibit commemorates the televised luncheon's tenth anniversary and features one of the iconic white coats worn by Kerry Washington on Scandal and Tracee Ellis Ross's scrubs from black-ish. Archived memorabilia, photos, and footage from the luncheon's nine-year history will be on display, including re-creations of the event's extraordinary tablescapes, images from past honorees, special video messages from Angela Bassett and Lynn Whitfield, a compilation of footage of some the event's most touching acceptance speeches, and much more. 

For more on Black History Month happenings at the Paley Center: https://www.paleycenter.org/black-history-month-exhibit