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MIT Elects Its 1st Black Woman Student Body President in the School’s 159-Year History

Photo: Stan Honda (AFP/Getty Images) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology just crossed a major diversity milestone by electing its first black woman student body president in the school’s 159-year history. Earlier this month, MIT’s Undergraduate Association announced sophomore mechanical engineering major Danielle Geathers as the winner of the institute’s “first …

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Social Studies: The Language of the Unheard

Image: Shutterstock Social StudiesThe Root’s Social Studies is a daily, curated, one-stop shop for all the funny, relevant and important content that should be trending on social media. I like funerals. Of course, I don’t like it when people die. I take the loss of life very seriously. But I …

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The Advantage of a Biden Shadow Cabinet

It would compound the effect, he continued, if “occasionally you bring them together on a stage where you can see the full diversity of the administration in every sense on display.” In fact, while Biden’s primary-campaign events were often sleepy, arguably his most compelling appearances came in the 48 hours …

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CNN Is Picking Ratings Over Ethics

Andrew Cuomo’s ratings shot up an astonishing 32 points during the pandemic, per FiveThirtyEight, giving him his best polling in seven years. Chris Cuomo’s CNN colleague Chris Cillizza could barely contain his own enthusiasm: “Thrust into the national spotlight by his state’s status as the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak …

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