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President Biden visited Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday (June 1) to commemorate the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, touring the Greenwood Cultural Center and meeting with the remaining three survivors of the violence — each a centenarian — that was spurred by a racist mob of whites that attacked a …

Robyn (Lil Bit Saucy) has been selected as LEGO Group’s first-ever kid creative director for Kids Creative Studio. At the beginning of March, the company  hosted an open call for the position. Making a decision was far from a snap. “We were so impressed by the diversity, passion, talent and …

Photo: Alex Edelman (Getty Images) If “this you?” was a person, it would be Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Last Thursday, Greene was on a stage faking a Mexican accent while impersonating the cartel leaders who exist exclusively in the toxic air bubble that is her mind. On Tuesday she …

A pastor on Chicago’s South Side is alerting the press that he’s preparing to walk to Washington D.C. in order to demand that President Joe Biden declare violence a national mental health crisis. On Sunday (May 30), Pastor Anthony Williams of King International Ministry told reporters he sent a letter …

A 145-page state-sanctioned report, authored by an independent law firm and released by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, claims “racial slurs and jokes are not uncommon” at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and “contribute to an atmosphere of hostility toward minorities.” The Roanoke Times reported that Virginia Gov. Ralph …

Jonathan Majors attends SiriusXM’s Town Hall with Matthew McConaughey And The Cast Of “White Boy Rick” on September 12, 2018.Photo: Astrid Stawiarz (Getty Images) Picture it, Philly. You run to the top of the stairs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and punch the air in triumph. What are you …

This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after  time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the …

Morehouse men’s basketball coach Grady Brewer has reportedly passed away. He was 63. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the HBCU announced the news on Sunday (May 30) after Brewer’s death on Saturday due to an unspecified illness. Brewer, who also graduated from the school, served as the Maroon Tigers head …

Amid an uptick in unruly passengers mid-flight, both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have decided to discontinue the sale of alcoholic beverages in the main cabin. On Saturday, American Airlines joined Southwest in suspending alcohol service on flights following a recent attack of a Southwest flight attendant who was left …

Photo: Billion Photos (Shutterstock) The subject of reparations is a prickly one because acknowledging America’s horrific past is something white America just doesn’t seem to have the fortitude to do. A seminary in Virginia has taken the steps to acknowledge the role slavery and Jim Crow laws played in its …