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For the first time yesterday, Jennifer Wexton got to use the gavel. The freshman Democratic congresswoman from Virginia presided over a floor debate on a bill to advance the Equal Rights Amendment. “This wins the prize for the coolest thing I’ve gotten to do as a member of Congress,” she …

The Church of England is apologizing for the racism they’ve enacted on “countless Black, Asian and minority ethnic people” over the past 70 years. In a statement by General Synod, the church’s legislative body, they voted on Tuesday (February 11) to issue an official apology and commission an outside expert …

Like many millennial love stories, their romance started with a DM. Dana Chanel and Prince Donnell, married serial entrepreneurs, initially met while attending the Community College of Philadelphia. However, they both ended up dropping out at different times and taking separate journeys—Chanel moved to New York City and founded a …

Graphic: Jim Cooke (G/O Media) The committee loves Valentine’s Day, not just because it’s an excuse to eat lots of candy and make reservations at places that you never cared about going to so that you actually look like you’ve made an effort because last Valentine’s Day we were waiting …

📚 Find Me, by André Aciman 📚 Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman How to fall in love over text “Emergency Contact is a book about how relationships that begin as a collection of pixels can become capital-R Real—in the Velveteen Rabbit sense. It’s also about the vague …

A century ago this week the Negro Leagues were created in Kansas City in response to the 100 anniversary of the creation of the negro baseball leagues. Baseball teams and organizations across the country will be using a logo designed in the Missouri city with and for the Negro Leagues …

In December, we received word about Footaction’s exclusive HBCU competition in partnership with black-owned design academies FAAS and PENSOLE. We traveled to Portland, Oregon, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the program as five HBCU students worked diligently to learn about and create functional apparel as a part of the …

Extra 20% Off Select Amazon Warehouse Items | Amazon If you’re cool with buying used products, it could pay off in a big way. Amazon Warehouse is marking down thousands of used items for 20% off their already low prices. The discounts are hitting a ton of different categories, from …

On a 92-degree morning in September, three clinic escorts gathered in the meager shade of a tree outside the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives. They arrive here at 8:30 a.m. on the dot, regular as clock-punchers, on the three days a week the Huntsville clinic is open to perform …

LeBron James not only makes magic happen on the basketball court but he makes dreams come true off the court as well.   On February 12, Kent State University announced they had partnered with the LeBron James Family Foundation to provide free tuition for four years to all eligible students from …