Billy Bean, one of America's most prominent DEI executives, died on August 6 of acute myeloid leukemia. Major League Baseball's senior vice president of diversity, equality, and inclusion was the league's second out homosexual player.
"Billy was a friend to countless people across our game, and he made a difference through his constant dedication to others," stated MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. "He made baseball a better institution, both on and off the field, by the power of his example, his empathy, his communication skills, his deep relationships inside and outside our sport, and his commitment to doing the right thing."
Bean spent six seasons with the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres before retiring in 1995 at the age of 31.
Bean remained in the closet until 1999, believing that neither baseball nor society could support an openly homosexual active player at the time.
His choice to come out garnered national attention from media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and ABC. Bean's 2003 book "Going the Other Way" became a national bestseller.
In 2014, MLB commissioner Bud Selig appointed Bean as the league's first ambassador of inclusiveness. Bean concentrated on LGBTQ inclusion, social justice projects, and player education issues.
In 2017, he was appointed to Vice President and Special Assistant to the Commissioner, with new responsibilities for anti-bullying efforts. Bean was promoted to senior VP in 2023.
Elon must be compensated—or else. Elon Musk’s X is suing the more than 100-member-strong Global Alliance for Responsible Media for purportedly launching an advertising boycott of the platform.
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, claims that the loss of advertising money puts her firm at danger in the long run.
The World Federation of Advertisers established GARM in 2019 to assist the industry in addressing the issue of unlawful or harmful material on digital media platforms and its monetization through advertising.
It was built in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings, in which the perpetrator livestreamed the incident on Facebook.
Despite being a colorful worldwide figure, Musk does not have supernatural rights to marketers' advertising revenue. Companies have the ability to spend their funds anywhere they please.
Perhaps Unilever, CVS, and Mars, which are cited in the action, do not want to be associated with the falsehoods and rubbish that exist on X.
The X lawsuit sounds like the tirade of a spoilt child who isn't getting what he wants.
Crazier and crazier. Republicans may wish to follow the Democrats' lead and conduct a switcheroo on top of their presidential ticket. That's because Donald Trump sounds more like the Crazy Old Uncle Up in the Attic.
On the day when Vice President Kamala Harris revealed her running mate, Trump wrote:
What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in U.S. history, whose Presidency was unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to reclaim the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another debate? He believes he made a historically disastrous error by giving over the United States Presidency, a COUP, to the people he despises the most in the world, and he demands it back now!!!
Are these the musings of a rational person? Instead of facing an energized Kamala, Trump would like to debate Old Joe again. Dream on, Donald.