One year has passed since a gunman took the lives of six Asian women and two others at spas in the Atlanta area. The shooting spurred new activism and awareness around violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. And yet reports of such violence are on the rise: …
Read More »OPINION: Delta Airlines Soars in Supporting Black Businesses
In late 2021, my wife and I sold our house, car, and material possessions to travel full-time. We’re empty-nest entrepreneurs that don’t have to be anywhere. We’ve decided to spend our golden years building our business from locations worldwide. We were on a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to …
Read More »All-Black Female WWII Battalion Will Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion participate in a parade ceremony in honor of Joan d’Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at stake in 1945.Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) On Monday, President Biden signed a bipartisan bill to honor the only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve …
Read More »Literature Isn’t Bound by the Rules of Time
Humans can move through time in only one way: forward, second by second, even when we set the clocks ahead an hour. But literature isn’t bound by the same rules. When narratives take place in the past or future, transporting the reader to the scene of events that already occurred …
Read More »‘Breakfast Club’ Co-Host Angela Yee’s Black-Owned Health and Nutrition Businesses Serve Up Community Support
By Nika White In honor of Women’s History Month, Entrepreneur had the privilege of interviewing a Black woman founder who has one foot in the business world and another in radio. Angela Yee is best known as co-host of nationally syndicated FM talkfest The Breakfast Club, but not many realize …
Read More »Black NJ Man Shot and Paralyzed after Traffic Stop
Photo: Photo Spirit (Shutterstock) Jajuan Henderson was suspected of having a firearm when he was confronted by a group of Trenton police officers. He was shot and paralyzed from the chest down, per a NJ.com report. Jajuan Henderson’s lawyer announced he’s suing the city. Per the report, Henderson, 29, was …
Read More »Party for <em>The Drift</em>, a Cool New Magazine
Sign up for Kaitlyn and Lizzie’s newsletter here. Kaitlyn: Being a hater takes years off of your life, so it’s better to try to be a fan. When I first heard about The Drift, the new magazine for young intellectuals, I had a knee-jerk negative reaction due to internship trauma—in …
Read More »Howard University Faculty Threatening To Strike Over Working Conditions And Wages
Hundreds of faculty members at Howard University are threatening to go on strike next week due to unfair working conditions and low wages. NPR reports Howard University faculty members, students, and alumni leaders rallied in support of the school’s faculty against low wages for non-tenured full-time teaching faculty and adjunct …
Read More »Family of Man Shot Without Warning by Ohio Police on New Year’s Day Files Lawsuit
Photo: Canton Police Dept (AP) The family of James R. Williams, a Black man who was fatally shot by an Ohio police officer while firing shots into the air to celebrate the new year, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against an officer and the city of Canton, according …
Read More »You Don’t Like Daylight Saving Time. You Just Like Summer.
This week, the “Sunshine Protection Act” passed the Senate. The bill, which would make daylight saving time permanent, is popular with the public; people hate switching their clocks back and forth. And who doesn’t like sunlight? But daylight saving time isn’t good for us. It’s an artificial jump forward from …
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