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Nike celebrates Black women with We Play Real film

Nike on Monday released a film titled We Play Real, to celebrate Black women in sport. Launched on International Women’s Day, The campaign is narrated by actress Dominique Fishback and celebrates Black women and their resilience and fortitude to impact the world. Athletes that appear in the film include Serena Williams, A’ja Wilson, Naomi Osaka,...

Business

Amazon sued for racial discrimination

Amazon Inc is facing a lawsuit in the U.S. for its “systemic pattern of insurmountable discrimination.” According to Reuters, a manager working at Amazon.com is sueing the online behemoth, citing the company hires Black people for lower positions and promotes them more slowly than white workers, and that she was subjected to harassment. Profits...

Culture

Milan Fashion Week embraces multi-cultural designers and events

As Milan Fashion Week gets underway, Italy’s Fashion Council, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) on Sunday will present We are Made in Italy, a collaboration with Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion Collective. The event will shine a spotlight on the work of five talents discovered by Afro Fashion Week founder Michelle Ngonmo. “The...

FashionFeatured

BFC announces Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee

The British Fashion Council has announced the launch of its Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee as part of its “long-term plan to fight prejudice and discrimination and galvanise the industry into action”. The committee is made up of industry and British Fashion Council representatives and its role will be to address "key challenges...

Fashion

Christopher Kane supports BAME voices with Instagram takeover

Scottish designer Christopher Kane has let a collective of Central Saint Martin (CSM) students takeover his Instagram in support of Platform, a new digital zine that aims to amplify BAME voices in fashion industry. The students, who are studying journalism, profiled a mix of rising creatives, including stylists, photographers and hair and makeup...

Fashion

Puma brings together ambassadors to discuss racism

Sports company Puma has brought together three of its best-known ambassadors, Formula 1 Champion Lewis Hamilton, Olympian Tommie Smith and football legend Thierry Henry, to have an honest conversation about racism in response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. In the video, entitled “Is Anyone Listening?”, the panel of Puma athletes...

Fashion

Zalando to drive diversity after racism investigation

In June this year Zalando investigated allegations of racism pertaining to employees not booking black models and using discriminatory language about skin tone. The issues were raised by a former employee of Zalando Studios via social media channels. Zalando said in a statement it could not confirm the core allegations, but admitted instances of...

Fashion

Off-White launches ‘I Support Young Black Businesses’ initiative

Virgil Abloh and Off-White have announced an ongoing commitment to the Black community with the launch of a quarterly fundraising programme, ‘I Support Young Black Businesses’. The project will raise funds for organisations chosen by Abloh and his team to support the Black community, explained the brand in a press release, by selling items where...

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UK Vogue Editor in Chief is victim of racial profiling

When Edward Enninful was appointed Editor in Chief of British Vogue in 2017 the last thing he expected was to be obstructed from walking through the building’s front door. Yet that is precisely what happened on Wednesday when a doorman to the Conde Nast London office on Hanover Square prevented Enninful from entering and instead directed him to...

BusinessFeatured

Tommy Hilfiger commits to diversity with ‘People's Place Program’

American fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has announced that it is launching a new platform in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, which will seek to advance the representation of Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) working within the fashion and creative industries. Dubbed the ‘People's Place Program’, the initiative takes its...