There has been a reckoning in the media world: Last month, top editors from Refinery29, the New York Times, Bon Appétit, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Essence all resigned.
that it is likely that current and former employees wrote the anonymous op-ed. According to Page Six reporting, the employees are givingexecutives an ultimatum: respond in five business days or they will release “personal testimonials of pay inequity, workplace bullying, lay-offs while on maternity leave and immediately after giving birth and sexual harassment.
” Using the Black Female Anonymous nom de plume again, theyDennis sold his cosmetics company Sundial Brands to Unilever for an estimated $1.6 billion in 2017.that he and his cofounder and mother Mary owned 51% of the company and walked away with an estimated $850 million fortune, making them two of the wealthiest Black entrepreneurs in the world.
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