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Jalil Hutchins, left, and John ‘Ecstasy’ Fletcher of Whodini accept an award onstage during the 2018 Black Music Honors on August 16, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.Photo: Jason Kempin (Getty Images) It is with great sadness that we report that John Fletcher, one third of the ’80s Brooklyn-based hip-hop trio Whodini, …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Our Favorite Things of 2020
CHARLIE LE MAIGNAN As selected by Shirley Li, Hannah Giorgis, and Megan Garber 1. Normal People (Hulu) Normal People, the much-lauded Millennial author Sally Rooney’s second novel, is a wrenching exploration of young romance in all its uncertainty. … It’s hard to look away, and harder still not to …
Read More »Kim Kardashian West Wants To Send 1,000 People $500 Each
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Read More »Meek Mill Gives Back By Delivering Holiday Gifts to 35 Families in Philadelphia
Hip Hop artist and prison reform activist Robert Rihmeek Williams, also known as Meek Mill, has given back to his city once again when he surprised 35 families from Philadelphia earlier this week. According to the Instagram account of Mill’s organization, Reform Alliance, the rapper had given a slew of …
Read More »A Second Top Black Female Employee Reveals She Was Fired From Google Back in September
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California is shown in this photo on May 4, 2004.Photo: David Paul Morris (Getty Images) When April Christina Curley went to bed on the night of September 10, she probably didn’t think she’d wake up the next morning and be out of a job at …
Read More »The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
At the national level, we’re seeing mixed indicators: Reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have declined very slightly since last Wednesday, while reported tests declined a little bit more. The United States now has more than 119,000 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a rise of 5 percent from last week. …
Read More »Ohio Police Kill Unarmed Black Man Over Noise Complaint
A 47-year-old Black man was reportedly shot and killed by an Ohio police officer after being called to the scene over a noise complaint early Tuesday (December 22). Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said during a Tuesday afternoon press conference he instructed the city’s police chief to suspend and take the …
Read More »How This Black Woman Tech Founder Is Disrupting the Retail Industry
If the retail industry wasn’t already in the midst of a transformation, 2020 with the coronavirus pandemic and the rise of contactless shopping would have ensured that. But one Black woman tech founder was already upending the status quo. In Episode 11 of the SistersInc. podcast, “Driving Innovation,” Dawn Dickson-Akpoghene …
Read More »Mayor Lori Lightfoot Taps Former Federal Judge to Look Into the Anjanette Young Case
Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot leaves the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago, Illinois on April 3, 2019.Image: Kamil Krzaczynski (Getty Images) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed Tuesday that she would enlist the help of former federal judge Anne Claire Williams to investigate the handling of the Anjanette Young case. As we’ve …
Read More »Charlie Brown’s Inside Job
Another reason A Charlie Brown Christmas has staying power is because it’s cool. That’s because in 1963 the producer, Lee Mendelson, had an experience that many people had that year. He was listening to the radio when a song came on that wasn’t like any other. It was the B …
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