Politics

How the new rules for the Paycheck Protection Program help small business owners

Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza before a Paycheck Protection Program announcement in the East Room at the White House…

4 years ago

Aunt Jemima and the long-overdue rebrand of racist stereotypes

Quaker Oats announced on June 17 that it recognized how “Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype,” and…

4 years ago

Lawmakers must now wear masks at all congressional hearings

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) arrive with other Democrats to…

4 years ago

What Mike Pence got wrong about the new coronavirus spikes

Vice President Mike Pence’s Wall Street Journal op-ed could lead Americans to believe the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is subsiding. The…

4 years ago

Senate Republicans’ narrow new police reform bill, explained

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is the leader on a police reform bill proposed by Senate Republicans. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call…

4 years ago

Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough.

The Best Books promotional table at Books-a-Million. | Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A social media campaign shows…

4 years ago

Indigenous communities have moved powwows to the internet

The annual Gathering of Nations Powwow and Miss Indian World Pageant was attended by 750 indigenous tribes from Canada and…

4 years ago

The beauty industry profits off black women. Now black women are fighting for accountability.

Sharon Chuter, the founder of Pull Up for Change, is also the owner of the beauty brand Uoma. | Uoma…

4 years ago

The systemic racism black Americans face, explained in 9 charts

Mourners listen to a eulogy by Rev. Al Sharpton at a memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on…

4 years ago

These diseases may balloon because the world is fixated on Covid-19

A young boy receives a mosquito net on April 28, 2020 in Benin during a distribution aiming at fighting malaria…

4 years ago