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Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Today I learned that there are, literally, over a thousand Confederate symbols on public land all over America. In recent years, calls have grown for these glorified participation trophies to be removed, calls that have only grown louder in the wake of George Floyd’s death …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: The President’s Most Dangerous Enabler
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Christopher Lee / VII / Redux Jared Kushner is the second-most-powerful man in the White House. …
Read More »Jill Scott To Star As Mahalia Jackson Biopic
Mahalia Jackson, known to many as the Queen of Gospel, is getting the big screen biopic treatment. Jill Scott will play Jackson in Mahalia!, produced by Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx. This is the second film about Jackson that’s been announced in the past week. A television biopic about the …
Read More »The State of Black Women in Corporate America: Why Achievement Can't Close the Gender Wage Gap
Photo: MBI (UK (Shutterstock) As long as pay disparities for Black women continue, inevitably so will the respectability politics that insist that we are somehow culpable for those inequities—you know, the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality that is the hallmark of so many of America’s suppressive policies and …
Read More »The Good Son
Jared Kushner, the second-most-powerful man in the White House, is quite a bit smarter than the most powerful man, his father-in-law, the president. Donald Trump possesses a genius for the jugular, but he evinces few other signs of intelligence. He certainly displays no capacity, or predisposition, to learn. His son-in-law, …
Read More »Rob Kardashian Posts Selfie Showing Off Major Weight Loss
Rob Kardashian is back! The reality star revealed his slimmed down body at his sister Khloe Kardashian’s 36th birthday in June, however now he’s posting more photos of himself after fans gushed over his new fizique. The 33-year-old shared an Instagram selfie of himself on Wednesday (August 12) all masked …
Read More »CaSandra Diggs Appointed President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Diversity within the fashion industry has been an ongoing fight for many Black professionals across the field. This week, the industry saw major progress when the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced that CaSandra Diggs would be appointed as the company’s new CEO. According to the CDFA website, Diggs …
Read More »Summer Is Winding Down, but Weekend Events Continue to Heat Up
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay and Doug E. Fresh are some of the big names involved in weekend events this weekend.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Jason Kempin (Getty Images) As summer winds down, the nation’s COVID-19 crisis continues to wage on. Despite the desire to break the …
Read More »The Artists of Lemmon, South Dakota
In March of this year, as the coronavirus and its effects were unfolding, Dakota Resources, a 24-year-old community development financial institution (CDFI) in Renner, South Dakota, launched a series of Zoom coffee breaks for people from across the state. Every morning, at 10:30, a few dozen people logged in to …
Read More »Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is the first woman and first African-American or South Asian to become California’s Attorney General. Prior to her present post, which she began in 2011, Harris served two terms as San Francisco’s District Attorney, where she developed a reputation for opposing the death penalty and for defending …
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