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In her first book, negotiation guru Mori Taheripour offers readers more than a decade of expertise honed as both a faculty member at the Wharton School of Business and adviser to organizations such as the NFL and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Even in the midst of economic crisis, …

Photo: Protesters rally at the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., on Wednesday. Photo by Paul Sancya (AP Images) Remember when Black Lives Matter protests were the scourge of the nation? How about when Colin Kaepernick started the trend of kneeling during the national anthem and conservative white America considered it …

✍️ Letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale The haunting last letters of Sylvia Plath “It’s the letters home, the letters to her mother, that ring most pitifully with the strained note of heartiness that all melancholiacs will recognize: the daily effort of a depressed person to get over …

Quarantine got you talking to yourself? You’re probably not alone. In fact, BET is giving celebrities the opportunity to express their feelings toward the things they miss most while social distancing. In our original video series LOVE LETTER, celebrities are given the chance to read a funny “love letter” aloud …

Unemployed by COVID-19. That is the consequence being faced today by more Americans than ever in the nation’s history, with unemployment claims filed to date reaching more than 22 million and counting. If you are in that number, you need to act now to jump-start your career and quickly gain …

Photo: Dave Kotinsky (Getty Images) Rapsody’s EVE is considered by some people to be the best hip-hop album of 2019 bar none (it’s me…I’m “some people”) and now, it has inspired courses at two universities. Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tyler Bunzey announced via …

Just before the 2016 election, and then again after its results became clear, I did a series of Atlantic items on a challenge I thought the press was not prepared for. The challenge was dealing with a major political figure—Donald Trump—who fit no previous pattern of how presidents or other …

The coronavirus has been devastating Black communities in St. Louis, Chicago and  Milwaukee. Now, New York City is the latest to report a disportionate number of African-Americans dying from the respiratory infection. According to ABC News, data reports that Black or African Americans are the largest demographic to die from …

The global COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly upended the U.S. economy and disrupted the lives of millions of people around the world. Most states have issued mandatory stay-at-home orders, while non-essential businesses have been closed down by local governments and Americans are being urged to practice social distancing to stop the …

Photo: Christopher Polk (Getty Images) The WNBA paid tribute to Gianna “GiGi” Bryant in a big way during the organization’s annual draft Friday by making her and fellow Mamba Academy teammates Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester the first three honorary 2020 draft picks. “While it brings us pain not to …