Changes at the US Postal Service could hurt African Americans, which are 27% of the Postal Service employees -- about twice the percentage of the regular workforce. Employment at USPS traditionally has been a means to the middle class for African American families because it was one of the first government jobs opened to all after the Civil War.

Harqen.AI has released a tool that uses artificial intelligence to assist the prescreening process using the company's history and needs. The company predicts that AI will speed the interview process during the increase of hiring that will follow the pandemic.

Seventy-two percent of Fortune 500 companies provide paid parental leave -- in some form -- though fathers are generally considered secondary caregivers to mothers, according to a study from researchers at Ball State University and Davidson College. The Family and Medical Leave Act allows men to take unpaid leave to tend to an infant or family member, but many men do not take the time off because they can't afford it, says Haley Swenson, deputy director of the Better Life Lab at the think tank New America.

Chadwick Boseman, the "Black Panther" star who died last week of colon cancer, said in a past interview with Kelley Carter that in Hollywood, Black actors "have to kill each other" to gain stardom, while parts are often created for white actors "before they're even ready to be stars." "I don't think that's right, because it's possible for there to be a Chris Pine, or a Chris Evans and Chris O'Donnell and a Chris Hemsworth and all the other Chrises, but it can only be one of us at a time?" he said.