Anderson .Paak’s brand is apparently presidential. On Tuesday (January 12), the singer and producer shared a video of Barack Obama giving him a shout out as he was golfing with surfer Kelly Slater. “Anderson, Kelly tells me you’re a friend. Love your work, man,” the 44th President said in the …

  Apple announced Wednesday that it will invest $10 million with Harlem Capital as part of their racial equity and justice pledge. “The unfinished work of racial justice and equality call us all to account,” Apple CEO Tom Cook shared on Twitter. “Things must change, and Apple’s committed to being …

Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP (Getty Images) It’ll be worth watching the process of American justice as it is applied to the mostly white insurrectionists who took over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with threats to hurt and hang elected government representative. Already, some of them have indicated that they expect …

In “On Statistics,” Wisława Szymborska takes the language of data, with its air of easy certainty, and uses it to measure some of the messiest, most complex aspects of human nature. The result is absurd, and it underscores how ill-equipped those quantitative measurements are for answering the biggest questions in …

Amanda Gorman, an award-winning Black female writer, is slated to become the youngest inaugural poet when she recites her work at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday (January 20). It’s not the first time the 22-year-old has broken barriers. In 2014, Gorman became the first Youth Poet Laureate of Los …

According to an inside source who shared the details with ABC News, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is set to be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The two women both served as former prosecutors in their respective home states– California and New York. The similarities between the two …

Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP (Getty Images) Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be making more than one symbolic statement at her inauguration on Wednesday. According to ABC News, Harris will mark her historic inauguration as vice president by swearing-in on a bible that belonged to civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall, who was …

The report from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team included 20 photos of my half sister’s bones—nearly as many photos as I had ever seen of Isabel herself.   The ones of the bones punctured by bullets—her rib, her pelvis, her humerus—did not move me as much as those of her skull. …

Barack Obama isn’t the only one putting out playlists from the White House. The Inauguration team for president-elect Joe Biden and VP-elect Kamala Harris has released an official playlist in honor of the January 20 inauguration, complete with 46 songs in honor of the soon-to-be 46th President. RELATED: Amanda Gorman, …

Ashley Lamothe started working at Chick-Fil-A when she was 15 years old to earn money for her first car purchase. Little did she know that she would become the youngest franchise owner in the history of Chick-Fil-A at the age of 26. “Chick-Fil-A has been a part of my life …