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Airmen can now have longer mustaches, according to the latest dress and grooming policy released Thursday by the Department of the Air Force. They also have been granted more flexibility to wear certain unit patches when assigned to joint missions with the Space Force. Meanwhile, the Navy has slightly relaxed its prohibition on beards by…

Google is taking steps toward improving skin tone representation across its products, including Real Tone for Pixel. And now, they’ve released a new skin tone scale designed to be more inclusive of the wide spectrum of skin tones we see in our society. According to a company blog, in partnership with Harvard professor and sociologist Dr.…

Morgan State University will award former NFL quarterback and social justice advocate Colin Kaepernick an honorary degree during its upcoming spring commencement. In a statement Tuesday, the Maryland HBCU announced that Kaepernick, along with filmmaker David E. Talbert and businessman David Burton were selected as “three exemplary vanguards of social justice and the African-American experience,” according to…

Although the critical and commercial success of Soul and Hair Love has opened the door to amplifying Black voices in animation, the industry is largely exclusionary.  According to a recent report, only 4% of the field is made up of Black animators. Directors, studio owners, and producers are even more sparse.  Jermaine & Whaketa Hargrove…

Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic By Okla Jones · Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and bestselling author Viola Davis will receive the 2022 Women In Motion Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Throughout her decorated career, Davis has won a Golden Globe, six Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Tonys, a BAFTA, a Primetime Emmy, as well as…

As graduation season swings around, many HBCU graduates are trying to figure out the first steps in their careers. One federal agency is hoping they consider a career in government. As part of the White House Initiative on HBCU schools and graduates, agencies inside the U.S. Department of Labor, including the Women’s Bureau and the…

A guest post by Jess Lawson of Blue State Conservative: Large companies inevitably have scores of metrics they use to gauge how well they are performing. Elements such as workplace safety, customer satisfaction indices, and employee engagement survey results are just a few examples of what a major corporation might track to ensure things are…

The 2022 Gerber Baby Photo Search winner is here, and she’s just totally adorable. Seven-month-old Isa Slish of Oklahoma boasts incomparably cubby cheeks, big ole eyelashes, and a beaming smile. She’s also the first Gerber baby in the company’s 95-year history to have a limb difference — and her parents hope that the spotlight will…

Joseph Kahn edited his high school’s paper and went on to serve as president of Harvard’s undergraduate daily, The Crimson, before graduating in 1987 with a degree in history. He briefly covered Plano, Texas, for The Dallas Morning News. But inspired by a professor’s observation that China could be the great story of the next…