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14 Sep

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence
Big data has long had a giant inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a few of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for numerous retail tech corporations, and I had also gotten my experience for data and...
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10 Sep

Blonde Kim Kardashian on cover as she stops appropriating

Blonde Kim Kardashian on cover as she stops appropriating
Kim Kardashian once presented herself as a beauty alternative to the thin blonde models of the ’90s. But when her much-mocked appearance on the front of Interview magazine’s ‘American Dream Issue’ this week is anything to go by, the times of which are well and truly behind her. The quilt – and subsequent shoot – features Kardashian with Farrah Fawcett-esque blonde hair (an addition to her look since May, when she cosplayed Marilyn Monroe on the Met Gala), wearing denim and standing in front of the US flag. “It’s an all-American image if ever there have been one,” Olivia Truffaut-Wong noted in a bit for The Cut, “and a distinctly different aesthetic from the look that made her famous –...
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2 Sep

‘Why Not Us: Southern Dance’ Expands On The Tradition

‘Why Not Us: Southern Dance’ Expands On The Tradition
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