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In many ways, The Odyssey is a story about talking to strangers. As Odysseus travels home after the Trojan War, he meets an array of new people—some hospitable, others violent. He relies on these new connections for shelter, but he also tries to get to know them, telling his own …
Read More »Colin Powell, First Black Secretary Of State, Dies Of COVID
Colin Powell, the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, who also was a four-star U.S. Army general and also the first African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has died of complications of COVID-19 Monday, CNN reports. He was 84.The Bronx, N.Y., native rose in …
Read More »North Carolina Central University Launches Program To Increase Number of Black Male Educators In Public Schools
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) launched a new institute to help increase the number of Black male teachers in the K-12 public school system. Black men account for about two percent of the country’s public school teachers, according to a U.S. Department of Education report cited by the News & …
Read More »U.S. Capitol Police Failed to Properly Prepare for Riot on January 6, Documents Show
Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images) A troubling finding has surfaced about some of what transpired during the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, according to a new report by Politico. On January 5, a day before the riot, a U.S. Capitol Police memo asked officers to be ready if an …
Read More »I Didn’t Have Friends. Then I Met Him.
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two friends who met doing AmeriCorps. Though they were only together for six weeks, they got matching tattoos …
Read More »House of Payne and Assisted Living Are All New Tuesday
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Read More »Washington D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza Is Now a Permanent Concrete Installation
According to The Washington Post, after renaming the two-block stretch of 16th Street NW to Black Lives Matter Plaza in the summer of 2020, it is now a permanent multimillion-dollar concrete installation. Bowser said on Thursday that construction was completed on Black Lives Matter Plaza. There is now one lane …
Read More »Ain’t Nothing Funny: Nassau County School District Says Video of White Students Using the N-Word, Wearing White Hood Was Meant to Be a ‘Joke’
Photo: lonndubh (Shutterstock) While some kids get their first job or spend weeks from home at sleep away camp during the summers, others make videos of themselves with a friend playing in a white hood and using the N-word. Oh, that’s not a regular summer activity where you’re from? Same, …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: If It Looks Like Democrats Are Improvising, It's Because They Are
At this point, let’s just call it the Big Bill. For weeks, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been going back and forth (and back and forth) on legislation that takes all of the president’s big priorities—universal pre-K, paid leave (now axed), free community college (also axed), climate change, etc.—and folds …
Read More »Toya Johnson’s Fiance Weighs In On Her Bachelorette Fun
Toya Johnson’s fiancé wanted her to have a fun time over the weekend at a bachelorette party but also not to get too turnt. Monyetta Shaw, the mother of Ne-Yo’s two eldest children, is preparing to tie the knot and Johnson was one of the ladies attending her bachelorette party …
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