Elizabeth Warren Just Unveiled a Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Jack Kurtz/Zuma Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a plan Friday to close the racial wealth gap by issuing $7 billion in grants to entrepreneurs of color. The grants could be used for startup capital to support an estimated 100,000 new minority-owned businesses, potentially creating 1.1 million jobs. “Every American should have a fair shot at…
The Last Black Man in San Francisco’s Walking Tour of a Lost City
Jimmie Fails (left) with “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” director Joe Talbot (right)A24 Around the bend of Bernal Heights Park, along the path they used to walk as teenagers, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails marveled at the scene before them: a trio of people contorting their bodies on yoga mats on an edge…
Why It Matters That a City Council in Louisiana Repealed a Ban on Saggy Pants
A young man walks down a sidewalk wearing sagging pants.Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMA Lawmakers in Shreveport, Louisiana voted 6-1 on Tuesday to repeal a 12-year-old ordinance banning pants that sag below the waist after outcry over the death of Anthony Childs, who was stopped by police for violating the law. Childs was walking down a sidewalk…
How a Black Psychiatrist Shaped “Sesame Street” As a Tool Against Racism
Sesame StreetAlbum/Entertainment Pictures/Zuma Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. Sesame Street is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The rush of stories and social posts about the iconic children’s TV show has inspired numerous stories about Muppets and cast members. Few, however,…
Ocean Vuong Wrote One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Books. He Doesn’t Care If It “Matters to Whiteness.”
Tom Hines Ocean Vuong’s first act of writing, as he describes it, was an act of preservation. When his grandmother died in 2008, he felt a “sudden panic.” “I’m the only one that can write in the family,” he tells me, “so if I don’t write down her stories, they’ll be gone.” Vuong began penning…
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be
John Bazemore/AP This story was originally published by ProPublica. Dorian Wanzer travels frequently for work. And almost every time she steps out of an airport body scanner, security screeners pull her aside and run their fingers through her hair. It’s called a hair pat-down. “It happens with my natural Afro, when I have braids or…