“People always reference crabs in a barrel, but no one ever questions the barrel,” Ketayma Stewart said. “When crabs are on the beach, they cooperate. It’s only when they’re confined that they compete.”
With the rise of e-commerce and automated checkout systems, traditional retail roles may diminish. Cashiers: Similar to retail salespersons, automated checkout systems are reducing the need for human cashiers. Telemarketers: AI-driven chatbots and voice recognition systems are increasingly handling customer inquiries. Data Entry Clerks: Automation tools can handle routine data entry tasks more efficiently. Bookkeepers and Accounting Clerks: AI can automate many financial tasks, potentially reducing the need for manual bookkeeping.
The BET comedy, drama, and romance TV series “Sistas” is about four Black female friends from college who juggle their relationship with each other, their workplace antics, and the men in their lives.
Here’s what I learned from David Mann and Tamela Mann about working over the years with mogul Tyler Perry and what it’s like to “retire” their characters.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) wrote a letter of commendation to Tyler Perry – the first African American to own a major movie studio – following the grand opening of the Tyler Perry Studios, which Congresswoman Waters attended in Atlanta. The 330-acre major motion picture studio is “one of the largest production facilities in the country” and includes “40 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, 12 sound stages, 200 acres of greenspace, and a diverse backlot.” Her letter follows:
Tyler Perry Studios has 12 soundstages, each named after seminal Black actors and actresses.