By The Color Of Their Skin | The Sun Magazine
In the fall of 1968, six months after civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, Tim Wise was born to lower-middle-class white…
Lucy McBath Wins Georgia Congressional Race Against Karen Handel | The New York Times
Ms. McBath defeated the Republican incumbent Karen Handel, who only last year won a closely watched special election in the same Georgia district. Though Ms. Handel did not concede the…
Kamala Harris Is on the Rise | Glamour
If you want to ask Senator Kamala Harris whether she’s planning to run for president, keep in mind her favorite Cardi B track: “Be Careful.” The California Democrat will answer…
Meet the Bakers Who Are Changing Their Communities for the Better—One Slice at a Time | Food & Wine
A truly great pie brings people together. That’s just a fact. If you’re going to make a memorable one, you have to put a little part of yourself in it…
Roy Hargrove, Trumpeter Who Gave Jazz a Jolt of Youth, Dies at 49 | The New York Times
His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital, was caused by cardiac arrest brought on by kidney disease, according to his manager, Larry Clothier. He said Mr. Hargrove had been on dialysis…
Stacey Abrams Is Still Waiting for a Miracle | The Atlantic
ATLANTA—Late on Election Night, in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Red Bull cans clinked against shoes on the floor. Journalists in a tight media pen scrambled to refresh…
Florida votes to restore ex-felon voting rights with Amendment 4 | Vox
Florida voters during Tuesday’s midterm elections approved Amendment 4, automatically restoring voting rights in the state for people previously convicted of felonies. Florida’s Amendment 4 restores voting rights for people…
Barry Jenkins Brings James Baldwin Home to Harlem | The Atlantic
In the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine, the essayist and fiction author James Baldwin wrote a piercing love letter to the neighborhood of his birth. “Fifth Avenue, Uptown” detailed…
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress | Al Jazeera
Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar have become the first Muslim women elected to US Congress. Tlaib took Michigan’s 13th congressional district in a race in which she was…
‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR
They were arrested, and taken to jail. Prosecutors sought a stiff penalty — living in reform school until they were 21. “The Kissing Case,” as it came to be known,…