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City hit with lawsuit over Black workers’ treatment at Dept. of Buildings

Posted: 04 Dec 2021 12:43 PM PST

White supervisors at New York City’s Department of Buildings’ Office of the Buildings Marshal used the N-word around black employees and wrote them up for frivolous infractions, passed them by for promotions in favor of less-qualified white employees, and denied them accommodations such as city vehicles due to disabilities, a new lawsuit claims. According to AM New York, the civil rights suit filed by nine Black building inspectors and one white supervisor in Manhattan Supreme

Mark Cuban buys a Mustang (well, a town called Mustang) in Texas

Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:58 AM PST

Some kids grow up dreaming of one day owning a Mustang, the original Ford pony car that inventing the term “Detroit muscle” thanks to its famous rear-wheel-drive power. Then there’s Mark Cuban. The “Shark Tank” star and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks is now the proud landlord of the entire Texas town of Mustang, located on Interstate 48 in Navarro County, according to the Dallas Morning News. County deeds show the 77-acre hamlet with

Georgetown home where Julia Child lived hits market for $3.5 million

Posted: 04 Dec 2021 09:39 AM PST

The Georgetown home where renowned television chef Julia Child tasted recipes for her best-selling cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” atop a $400 six-burner gas stove is on the market for $3.5 million. The Washington Post reports the 19th century home, built by African American carpenter Edgar Murphy on Olive Street NW, was bought by Child and her husband, Paul, in 1948. The yellow clapboard building is one of the few left in the