Karamo Brown is letting everyone know bald is beautiful. The Queer Eye star is stepping into the beauty industry with the launch of Mantl, a new personal-care brand for bald and balding men. After being insecure about his balding, the culture expert learned to embrace his hair loss and help out …
Read More »Keke Palmer Is the New Face of Olay
Keke Palmer (Image: Olay) Multifaceted performer Keke Palmer has been named official spokesperson for the new Olay Body skincare line, according to Essence. She had previously partnered with Olay Body last year for its New York Fashion Week campaign. She walked in her first runway show at the event. Palmer …
Read More »Like the Good Ol' Boy He Is, Ben Carson Wants You All to Know That Donald Trump is 'Not a Racist'
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Every black person with good sense can see that President Donald Trump likes to surround himself with conservative black people so he can point in any random direction and exclaim, from the book of whypipo proverbs: “How can I be racist? I have a black …
Read More »The Weinstein Trial and the Lies of Due Process
No person shall be deprived “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Due process suggests the comforts of idealized thinking, summoning notions of equality and fairness and the sanctity of facts. It may be rooted in reason; in practice, though, it can look like what it has …
Read More »Nike Honors Kobe Bryant At New York Fashion Week
Nike is honoring the late Kobe Bryant in its own unique way. On Wednesday (February 5), the Nike 2020 forum event kicked off New York Fashion Week with a show unveiling uniforms for the Tokyo Olympics, along with new sportswear and the latest innovations coming from the apparel brand this year. The …
Read More »200 Medical Professionals Oppose Bills Aimed at Trans Youth. If Only Republicans Believed in Science
Photo: Kena Betancur (AFP via Getty Images) So by all accounts medical professionals and researchers have come to the conclusion that transgender people are just, you know, people. Yet, since Republican lawmakers are driven by a bizarre desire to destroy everything they don’t understand, if that means targeting children. Last …
Read More »The Divides That Make Hong Kong and West Berlin
Hong Kong and West Berlin stand about as far apart as two cities can be. Yet for most of the second half of the 20th century, they were doppelgängers in an important way: Each was a focal point of Cold War tensions, linked by the shared stresses of being battlegrounds …
Read More »Barnes & Noble Black History Month Series Canceled
Barnes & Noble attempted to celebrate Black History Month with their “Diverse Editions” program. They took classic book covers like Romeo and Juliet, The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein and replaced the images with Black faces. After backlash on social media, especially for not choosing books by Black authors, and …
Read More »Postal Worker Saves Missing Toddler
Photo: Shutterstock I don’t know about y’all but I prefer to end the week with some good news. After a week as exhausting as this one, I think we’re all in need of it. CBS News reports that Thursday morning in Maryland, postal worker Keith Rollins found and rescued a …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Where Working-Class Voters Stand
It’s Friday, February 7. Tonight’s Democratic debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, will begin at 8 p.m. EST. In the rest of today’s newsletter: Joe Biden’s electability argument fell apart in Iowa. Plus: what the moment of reunion feels like for a military spouse. * « TODAY …
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