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Photo: Sean Gardner (Getty Images) Every year, like clockwork, some Twitch streamer has what is called a Heated Gamer Moment. This usually involves said gamer incurring a series of embarrassing losses before inevitably dropping the Hard-R. The focus of tonight’s Heated Gamer Moment is NASCAR driver Kyle Larson. Larson has …

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. Jamiel Law A nasty, historic recession is looming, and Americans of all ages will feel it. …

Keri Hilson tried to set the record straight when an Instagram user suggested that she wasn’t born with her perfect nose. The exchange came on April 10 when the R&B artist posted a childhood family picture on her IG page in honor of National Siblings Day. She wrote a funny …

Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own …

(Image: Wikimedia Commons/ Σ – Own work CC BY-SA 4.0) After suspending his campaign last week, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has announced this afternoon that he is endorsing former rival and Vice President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination. “Today I am asking all Americans, I’m asking every Democrat, …

Screenshot: Al Jazeera (YouTube) As reports fill our newsfeeds about the bigotry and discrimination Asian people are facing amid the coronavirus outbreak, in China, African residents are alleging anti-black racism resulting from the pandemic. The Washington Post reports that Africans living in the Chinese city of Guangzhou—home to the largest …

Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. When Ananay Arora looks off his balcony, he doesn’t see much these days. From his high-rise apartment, which he shared with three roommates before one of them moved back to Taiwan …

Award-winning jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock was born on April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois.  Throughout his sterling career, the renowned musician worked with jazz icons, such as Donald Byrd and Miles Davis, while also developing his own stylistically diverse discography. He was one of the first jazz musicians …

(Image: iStock/FatCamera) Small business owners have been one of the groups hit hardest by the COVID-19, or novel coronavirus pandemic. Reports have shown that 1 in 4 small businesses will be permanently closed due to the viral outbreak. To save American business owners, the government created the Small Business Administration’s …

Photo: Shutterstock As millions of people found themselves out of work due to the coronavirus-related closures that began last month, a new survey found almost one-third of renters didn’t make payments on their homes for the first week of April. The data comes from the National Multifamily Housing Council, a …