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“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. My friend Peter Attia, a wellness and longevity expert who helps people live better …
Read More »A Frustrated LeBron James Curses at Teammates and Throws Basketball at Opposing Player in Latest Loss
The Los Angeles Lakers who were favored to win the NBA championship this season are failing miserably. Despite LeBron James having a year that solidifies his legacy, the team is falling short and the frustration has reared its ugly head. At Monday night’s Lakers game, which ended as a loss …
Read More »March 16 Marks Founding of Freedom’s Journal
The Black-owned newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, was founded on this day in 1827. That same year, slavery was abolished. Then, the free Black men of New York City including executive editors Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm founded Freedom’s Journal to counter racist reports in the press and fight for …
Read More »<em>Pachinko</em> Is Moving, Sublime—And at Odds With Itself
Skilled players of pachinko—an arcade-style, pinball-like game found mostly in parlors across Japan—know how to launch the game’s small steel balls at just the right moment, with just the right force. But expert ones understand that luck can play an even more important role, because parlor managers tend to interfere …
Read More »Dr. LaTonia Collins Smith Named Harris-Stowe State University’s First Black Woman President
Harris-Stowe State University has made an historic choice for its 21st president. Dr. LaTonia Collins Smith was named the university’s first Black woman president in late February, Fox 2 News reported. “Dr. Collins Smith exemplifies Harris-Stowe’s core values of personal growth, respect, innovation, diversity, and excellence. She has demonstrated her extraordinary ability …
Read More »Ohio Woman Charged for Sending Racist and Threatening Messages to Michigan Lawmakers
Michigan State CapitolPhoto: Grindstone Media Group (Shutterstock) A woman in Ohio was charged with two felonies after she allegedly sent racist death threats to two Black Michigan lawmakers, according to the Detroit Free Press. Sandra Bachman, 58, is being accused of leaving the threats over voicemail to Rep. Sarah Anthony …
Read More »The Most Haunting Truth of Parenthood
Do we ever really understand our parents? Certainly not when we’re children. If we’re lucky, we begin to understand them later. We might one day realize, for example, that they carried burdens we couldn’t see. Sometimes I wonder if I might have learned something important about what was to come …
Read More »30-Year-Old Homeless Man Arrested for Serial Shooting Attacks On Other Homeless in NYC and DC
On Tuesday, a 30-year-old homeless man was arrested in Washington DC in serial shooting attacks on fellow homeless people. Gerald Brevard III was arrested early Tuesday after a multistate manhunt in connection with the targeted shooting attacks on five homeless people in New York City and DC, NBC New York …
Read More »Shalanda Young Confirmed To Crucial Cabinet Position
Shalanda Young, President Biden’s Nominee to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a Senate Budget Committee Nomination Hearing at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Congress returns from recess this week, as the Senate gets ready to confirm a Supreme …
Read More »The Thriller Is Sexy Again in Ben Affleck’s <em>Deep Water</em>
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Ben Affleck, resplendent with stubble and weary eye bags, is a rich but bored husband with a beautiful (but also bored) wife, rattling around in a giant house wondering what to do with himself. Soon enough, a dead body appears. That’s the …
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