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President Joe Biden is outlining an entire package that is intended to address systemic racism across the federal government by signing four executive actions to boost racial equity and remove any roadblocks hindering people of color or marginalized groups. He announced on Tuesday (Jan. 26) that he will sign four …

A civil rights collaborative is calling on President Joe Biden and his administration to establish a White House Office on Racial Equity and Inclusion. The Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative, self-described as the foremost diverse coalition of national racial justice and civil rights organizations, sent a memo to the Biden administration …

Image: Andre L Perry for The Knot OK, so 2021 may not have made the type of grand and glorious entrance we were all longing for—in fact, far from it. But aside from welcoming a new administration (prayers up) with an inspiring and highly meme-able inauguration, there was at least …

The media’s well-documented tendency to give disproportionate coverage to cases involving well-off, white female victims only exacerbates this effect. Reading the news, you might think that “young, pretty, white women are being killed at astronomically high rates,” says Amy Michael, a biological anthropologist at the University of New Hampshire who …

Garret Miller, a Texas man who’s facing federal charges linked to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is apologizing for his role in the storming and for threatening Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a Capitol Police officer. The 34-year-old released a statement on Monday (January 25) through his …

Historically Black colleges and universities are known to often have deep ties to the neighborhoods and cities they occupy. They also generate millions in revenue for those local economies. According to a 2017 HBCU economic report from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), these institutions generate over 130,000 jobs both …

Photo: Michael B. Thomas (Getty Images) The death cult that is the Republican party has struck again. A member of the self-proclaimed “pro-life” party has proposed a bill in Missouri that would authorize deadly force to be used against protesters on private property. According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, …

At least … I’m pretty sure that’s the right way to think about it. I’m still figuring out how to judge the Biden administration. One of the tics of my profession is that when a presidential administration turns over, so do we. I mean this literally, in a personnel sense—the …

Things aren’t getting any easier for the Bordelon family in the upcoming fifth season of Queen Sugar. The clip, released on Monday (Jan. 25) by OWN, shows how the family will continue to take on the powerful and privileged Landry family from attempting to steal the land of Black farmers, …

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer by REUTERSJanuary 26, 2021January 26, 20211313 0 Walgreens Boots Alliance said on Tuesday it named Roz Brewer, the outgoing chief operating officer of Starbucks, as the company’s chief executive officer. Brewer will take office from March 15. She succeeds Stefano Pessina, who will transition to the role of executive chairman of …