Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza before a Paycheck Protection Program announcement in the East Room at the White House on Tuesday, April 28, 2020,
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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 will work to update the
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 announce police reform legislation in
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 truth is much more complicated.
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 via Getty Images It overlaps
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 whose stories publishers value —
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 the US in Albuquerque, New
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 Pull Up for Change is
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 June 4. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis
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 amid the pandemic of the