This story was originally published at Prism.
By Sravya Tadepalli
In the face of rising white nationalism and protests for racial justice, calls for schools to confront the white supremacist legacies of their namesakes have taken on new urgency. Many school districts have used renaming processes to denounce white supremacy and publicly memorialize the achievements and contributions of marginalized people.
Trust me: After the week this Black woman has had, I’m as surprised by the headline as anyone. Not that a mediocre white man disrespected a Black woman with palpable animosity; that’s every day for us. No, I’m shocked that there were any consequences for this guy being such a jerk, much less such significant ones.
If you have ever given money to a Democratic campaign, you will likely receive an email in the follow-up cycle asking for more funding. You can receive it off and on forever, from candidates you know and don’t know. For the most part, campaigns choose to automate these emails, using a digital contractor to help design and schedule them. The emails can be set around fundraising dates, days of the week, and frequency.
The week after one cop was convicted of murder, another will be seeking an appeal of her murder conviction after claiming that she accidentally walked into the wrong apartment and mistook a Black accountant for an intruder before shooting and killing him. It’s no secret who the first cop is.
America also intends to pay for an expansion of manufacturing capability for the vaccine manufacturer in India.
The GOP campaign to take back the streets, even if by force.
“America is not a racist country,” the Senate Republican said, adding that every society has “bad actors.
“Today the Armenian people received the recognition we have all been hoping and praying for,” the billionaire reality TV star said.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace grilled House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about his Jan. 6 conversations with the then-president.
Call out your audience’s skepticism and then tell a story to prove them wrong.
Pence hit the slopes as his own task force urged strict precautions amid historic highs in coronavirus cases and the CDC told people to stay home.
She referred in a tweet to “Gov. Gavin Newsom’s district attorneys.” DAs are elected in California, not appointed by the governor.
Grace Schulman’s poem is a “celebration” of springtime, a season that can in itself feel like a hopeful celebration of warmth, light, and life. Schulman describes newly blooming nature as full of motion, as though every flower, tree, and creature were waking up and dancing: The hostas unfurl, the tulips gaze feverish, the oaks raise up their leaves.But the joy is tinged with loss. The changing seasons mark the passage of time, marching forward to an inevitable end point.
Parenting advice on second marriages, anxiety, and bathing.
In 1920, following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, the lawyer and feminist Crystal Eastman turned her attention to the future. The new goal of the feminist movement, she argued, should be to ensure that women are free to pursue careers outside of child-rearing—but also to guarantee that if women chose to focus on parenting, their labors would be “recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward.
For the fourth straight day, India set a global daily record for new infections.
The original false account of George Floyd’s murder challenges old habits of journalism.
Losing your umpteenth bidding war just might radicalize you.
The company is targeting one of news organizations’ weak points.
Get ready for private equity guys to start making jokes about Uncle Joe Stalin.
In a system designed to suppress turnout, he just might be the low-turnout candidate.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki further stoked those fears on Thursday when she listed health care as separate from the forthcoming infrastructure pitch.
There’s a lobbying war over how HHS implements new protections shielding patients from large, unexpected medical bills.
Federal health officials will add warnings about potential blood-clot risks to fact sheets for health care providers and vaccine recipients.
Nancy Messonnier is no longer the head of the agency’s vaccine task force.
A new effort to sell the jab is focusing on a few things: financial hurdles, conservative media and not speaking down to those who are hesitant.
This article contains spoilers through the entirety of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame.Superlative television should always know what it wants to be, and on that front, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has felt more like Marvel’s exercise in trying things out than a series with a fully realized sense of self.
