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. Minneapolis faces a reckoning. Justin Ellis, who grew up in the heart of the city’s Lake …
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Yet another white police officer has come under fire for his use of excessive force while executing an arrest. This time, Fairfax County police Officer Tyler Timberlake has been charged with assault and battery after using a stun gun to arrest a Black man. The man’s outcry was the eerily …
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Entrepreneur Kelvin ‘PJ Kev’ Mensah has made a name for himself as the youngest black private jet broker in the industry. At the age of 21, Mensah began chartering planes for influential people in various industries. Since then, he has experienced unquantifiable success. As the airline industry strives to overcome …
Read More »Kemba Walker of the Charlotte Hornets brings the ball up against the Atlanta Hawks during their game at Spectrum Center on October 20, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo: Streeter Lecka (Getty Images) I believe the old adage is “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.” In the latest …
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Photographs by Wing Young Huie Back in the late 1990s, the photographer and Minnesota native Wing Young Huie started an ambitious project to document life along Lake Street, a six-mile corridor that stretches across south Minneapolis, west from the Mississippi River to Lake Bde Maka Ska. For four years, Huie …
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Snoop Dogg is ready to bring his protest against the current President of the United States to the ballot box this November. The rap icon and entrepreneur reveals he’ll be voting for the first time this year, and it won’t be for Donald Trump/ Snoop was interviewed on the Real …
Read More »Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the General Motors Detroit- Hamtramck assembly plant on January 27, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. Photo: EFF KOWALSKY / AFP Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is presiding over one of the most consequential states in the nation as we approach the November election. Elected in 2018 …
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The truth is that we don’t yet know how the coronavirus will reshape our cities—at least not in the long term. “It’s still early days,” Ben Rogers, the director of the Centre for London think tank, told me. He suggested that the most profound changes are likely to appear not …
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A Black business owner in Des Moines, Iowa says he received an eviction notice for participating in a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. Liberian-born Jeremiah Johnson owns the fashion/retail store Stylent Brands and used to rent an office space, however his landlord saw Johnson and his associates protesting while watching …
Read More »Photo: President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. after the U.S. Labor Department announced the unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May. Photo by Chip Somodevilla (AFP/Getty Images) On Friday, the Bureau of Labor …
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