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Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union list Biscayne Bay home for $32.5 million
Retired NBA legend Dwyane Wade and superstar actress Gabrielle Union have placed their six-bedroom Miami, Florida home on the market at a price of $32.5 million.
The listing price for the homie is three times the amount it was purchased for nine years ago.
Wade purchased the mansion that is situated on the northern tip of Miami Beach in 2010 for $10,645,000 but upgrades such as a basketball court, a home cinema, and a wine cellar have tremendously increased the volume of the home.
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The Daily Mail details the home is situated on a 43,615 sq ft lot and the main house itself stretches out 14,000 sq ft.
The home is listed on Douglas Elliman real estate and said to have “multiple formal and informal living areas” on the property.
The main house is described to have “classic American manor details, soul-soothing elements and chic modern comforts.” Inside also has a kitchen that is crafted for a chef to feel right at home and a “well-appointed master suite.”
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Dwyane and Gabrielle have moved west to Los Angeles to support both career and family needs. Wade’s son Zaire, from a previous marriage, will be playing alongside the son of Wade’s best friend LeBron James‘ at Sierra Canyon High School. Union films her television shows, America’s Got Talent and L.A.’s Finest, in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times reports the Wades now reside in the Sherman Oaks area in an 8,650-square-foot home for under $6 million.
“You can definitely call me a local because I have to pay taxes here,” Wade said. “My family is here, so most of my time will be spent here now supporting my family, but I also have a family in the Miami Heat that I’m going to go back and show love to.”
The new home carries some of the same luxuries as their Miami home in a professional theater screen, wine cellar and a wellness room.
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5 Ways to Ace the Transition From College Grad to First Job
It can be tough for any college grad to figure out how to find their way when they start their first job, but it can be even tougher for students of color to navigate the realities of corporate America.
At the recent BE Smart Student Symposium presented by Dell Technologies, students from 10 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and four minority-serving institutions got a little help with that. Maggie Chan Jones, founder of executive coaching firm Tenshey, taught them five ways to rock their transition from student to professional.
Chan Jones knows a thing or two about excelling in corporate America despite coming from an underrepresented population. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. when she was 14. She would go on to become the first woman chief marketing officer at software company SAP and was named to Forbes‘ list of the Most Influential CMOs.
“I created my own company with the purpose to elevate more women and people of color into leadership using my experience—how I got to the C-suite in less than 20 years in my career. Because if someone like me–who didn’t really speak any English when I first came to the U.S., and I honestly don’t think I’m that smart–if I could get there, so many people can get there,” Chan Jones shares. “The question is how.”
1. Be intentional in choosing your jobs
“Think about what you’re passionate about, what are the things that you just love doing. And that you’re also great at. Because they could be things that you’re great at, but you don’t love doing them and when you get into a job doing that, you’re going to get bored or get frustrated very quickly,” Chan Jones cautions.
“You want to start talking to people in those fields, and really learn about those things that are interesting to you,” she adds. “Spend time asking them about what is a day in the life of someone in marketing, someone in sales, someone in business development and see how does it connect with you.”
2. Unleash your intellectual curiosity
“How do you learn from every single job? And how do you learn from different scenarios?” Chan Jones asks, encouraging young professionals to adopt a growth mindset. “One of the things that I’m really passionate about is building muscles. I always tell people when I’m trying something new, even when it is hard, and especially when it is hard, I say, ‘Wow, This is great. I’m building the muscles.'”
3. Build your support system
“Network is, to me, my secret sauce of success. I count on so many people in my life, including—first and foremost—my friends and family because without their support, I couldn’t be moving across the country multiple times to take on new jobs. And without the support of my sponsors, my managers, my colleagues, I couldn’t have done what I was able to accomplish.”
Chan Jones challenged the students to take advantage of the opportunity to make connections with each other before they leave college life for their first job: “You’re meeting with so many people, people from different schools. Build that network, because they may be your colleagues. The next day, they may be your friends for life.”
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4. Take risks and make an impact
Chan Jones spoke to the students about stepping out of their comfort zones, relaying an anecdote from her past: “One of the things I learned when I went from being a student to a professional is when you’re in a meeting, you’re supposed to speak out. And I remember one of my managers said, ‘Hey, Maggie, you have some really good ideas, but you never speak up in a meeting.'”
“So I took that with my growth mindset. I said, ‘OK, so what am I going to do about it?’ One of the ways that worked for me, and hopefully it will work for you as well, is when you do something that you feel like you’re getting out of that comfort zone, try something small first. So I told myself, every important meeting that I go to, within the first 10 minutes, I have to either make a statement or ask a question. After a couple of years, I no longer had to remind myself because that’s become a muscle memory.”
5. Have fun and be yourself
“In the early days, I was so worried because I would walk into the room and usually I was the only woman. Even today, in many cases, I could be the only person of color,” Chan Jones says. “On the early days, I would like just to fit in. Over time I realized that wait, if I really have to try that hard to change who I am as a person to fit in, guess what? That’s not my place.”
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Justin Trudeau blasted for refusing to say how many times he has worn blackface
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is currently facing backlash for wearing Blackface and he is refusing to state how many times he has worn the makeup in his life.
Trudeau was present for a town hall meeting in Saskatoon Thursday night and was hit with questions about his past with blackface in front of a crowd of his supporters.
“Earlier today you were questioned about how many times you appeared in blackface or brownface – I’ll make it easy, is it possible to round to the nearest five?” a man questioned at the town hall.
Trudeau would respond not with an answer, instead stating it was a serious matter.
“I’m not going to make light of the situation, I don’t think it’s something we should be making light of,” Trudeau said according to the Daily Mail.
Images of Trudeau in makeup began to emerge this week, the first from 2001 showing him in brownface at an Arabian Nights party when he was a teacher. Two other photos would emerge, one in Blackface, dressed as Harry Belafonte and singing “Day-O” in the 1980s.
The third photo was reported by Global News TV in Canada showing Trudeau again in Blackface with his hands in the air and sticking out his tongue in the early 1990s.
“Far too many people in this country face intolerance and discrimination on a daily basis, and what I did was inexcusable and wrong, and hurt a lot of people who consider me to be an ally,” Trudeau said. “I am deeply deeply sorry.”
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The timing for the images is far from optimal for Trudeau as he is set to face Conservative leaders in next month’s elections who have already zeroed in on his scandal.
“I am deeply troubled by what this means to Canada. Young kids are not just going to see just one or two but multiple images of the prime minister mocking their lived reality,” said Jagmeet Singh, a Sikh and Left-wing New Democrat Party leader.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer chimed in, stating Trudeau is “not fit to govern this country.”
Trudeau has not signaled that he will resign, nor has there been a call to do so from his Liberal Party. Many members of his party, including non-white officials, have supported him.
“I think the real measure of the man, and I think the thing we need to be talking about, is all the amazing things we have done for diversity,” said Greg Fergus, a Black Liberal member of Parliament.
In his career, Trudeau is known for being a supporter of multiculturalism and immigration, bringing diversity to the positions of his cabinet and naming Harjit Sajjan, a Liberal who is Sikh, Canada’s first Sikh defense chief in 2015.
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Police officer placed on leave after calling students ‘N-word’ and ‘monkeys’
An officer in the Boston Police Department has been placed on administrative leave after high school students say he called them racial slurs when responding to a noise complaint.
Students at the Roxbury Prep High School stated the officer pushed them while at a McDonald’s near the school on September 13 and called them “monkeys” and the N-word, according to The Boston Globe.
The officer has been identified by media reports as Joseph Lynch.
Upon his arrival at the fast-food chain, the officer is stated to have followed the students back to the school campus, where he would become more aggressive by pushing them and hurling the racial slurs.
Police Commissioner William Gross and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins visited Roxbury Prep on Thursday to speak with students.
Rollins told the students are now “feeling attacked and racialized and dehumanized” after the encounter with Officer Lynch.
Roxbury Prep issued a statement confirming the incident, with both students and staff coming forward to “express deep concern about the officer’s behavior, both in terms of his actions and language.”
“These allegations are incredibly disturbing coming from anyone, and especially from a police officer,” Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said. “No one should experience racism or discrimination, not in a place of learning and not anywhere. We have to be better. I commend Boston Police for taking action as soon as they were made aware of the allegations, and I am confident they will investigate this case to its full extent.”
According to the Daily News, Lynch was placed on leave and an internal affairs investigation was launched.
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Byron Allen Ready to Take His Case to The Supreme Court
Almost a year ago, comedian and successful businessman Byron Allen filed a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast in addition to a $10 billion suit against Charter Communications as reported by the Associated Press. Now the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court, will hear the case on November 13.
Allen is claiming that the two media conglomerates, which aren’t carrying his cable TV channels, are doing so based on racial bias. He has been going back and forth with Comcast in court to prove that its insistence not to carry his channels is based on the fact the he is black.
“This is historic,” says the Entertainment Studios boss of the August 15 brief filed by the feds seeking to tighten the definitions of a Reconstruction Era statute in Comcast’s favor. “Donald Trump’s DOJ and Comcast are working together to destroy a civil rights statute in the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“You have one of the biggest media companies in the world, which has been beating up Donald Trump for racism, and now they are saying, we will work together to maintain institutionalized racism in America, in this amicus brief they delivered,” Allen says of the William Barr-run Department of Justice and its plan to tip the scales for Comcast.
The Los Angeles Urban League, via Twitter, as well as other civil rights groups, have called for a boycott against Comcast in anticipation of Allen’s upcoming racial bias court battle.
“We are appalled by your decision to challenge and destroy the federal civil rights statute of 1866 in the U.S. Supreme Court and do so in partnership with the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice,” the Los Angeles Urban League said several weeks ago in a letter to Comcast boss Brian Roberts and senior executive vice president David Cohen.
Now, Allen and his lawyers are going to have to prove that race was the only reason Comcast hasn’t given his cable channels distribution on its platform.
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