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Photo: Brett Carlsen (Getty Images) Four months ago, Breonna Taylor was killed in her own home by Louisville Metro Police while sleeping. Despite calls for justice only growing louder and louder as time has passed, only one of the officers involved in Taylor’s death has faced any kind of consequence. …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: The COVID-Driven Economic Crisis Isn’t Over
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. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY This spring, the U.S. effectively paused its economy in order to buy …
Read More »Tiger Woods Speaks Out On Black Lives Matter Protests
Tiger Woods is not known for his bold political commentary, but the golf icon did add his two cents about the ongoing protests in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others. Woods specifically voiced his support for Black Lives Matter. “That’s how society …
Read More »CNN Host and Comedian W. Kamau Bell on His Shifting View of White Supremacy and Defunding Police
Season 5 of the United Shades of America couldn’t arrive at a better time. The CNN original series hosted by comedian W. Kamau Bell kicks off its new season Sunday as the country opines on how to rectify centuries of systemic racism—a topic that’s been at the center of national …
Read More »Senate Democrats Pandemic Relief Bill Includes the $350 Billion 'Economic Justice Act' for Communities of Color
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) Given the sheer amount of fuckery popping off on a daily basis, it’s almost easy to forget that we’re currently in the midst of a pandemic that is decimating both public health and the economy. Almost. While the president and certain GOP governors try to …
Read More »Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism
In The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates famously described Trump’s politics as white supremacy made evident because of the election of a Black president. Although the writers of the “More Specific Letter” don’t mention Trump by name, they’re building on Coates’s argument: Trumpism is the brutal manifestation of inherited power. Thus, the …
Read More »Detroit HS Senior Earns Millions In Scholarship Money
The future belongs to Ridgeley Hudson Jr. The recent graduate of King High School in Detroit has reportedly received multiple scholarships from schools across the country, amounting to over $2 million. “I never thought that I’d be here at this moment with scholarships to the tune of $2.3 million,” Hudson …
Read More »15-Year Old Michigan Black Girl Sent to Juvenile Detention For Not Doing Online Homework
A 15-year-old Black girl in Michigan was sentenced to a juvenile detention center during the coronavirus pandemic by a judge who reprimanded her for not completing her online homework, thus violating her probation, according to ProPublica Illinois. The Black teenager has been in custody at the Children’s Village juvenile detention …
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Graphic: Gabe Carey Best Deals of the DayBest Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. A bulk deal on hand sanitizer (both scented and non-scented), a pre-order deal on Far Cry 6, an Anker Roav dual dash cam, a Marc Jacobs crossbody bag sale,a matcha …
Read More »A Bomb in the Desert
There, 75 years ago this morning, humankind exploded the first nuclear weapon, a cable-encrusted steel sphere nicknamed “the Gadget.” The site took on the code name of the detonation, Trinity, which its architect, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had chosen, inspired by a John Donne holy sonnet: Batter my heart, three-person’d God, …
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