How Ferguson Prepared DeRay Mckesson for Trump
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the waning years of the Obama administration, a new generation of black activists emerged with a simple refrain for the streets and the tweets: Black lives matter. That rallying cry would go on to spark an international organization led by black women, several lists of policy…
Former Facebook Manager: Being Black at Facebook Is Bad, But Being Black in Silicon Valley Is Worse
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Mark Luckie quit his job as a manager at Facebook, he sent out a departing internal memo November 8 calling out his former employer for having a “black people problem”—and then, last week, shared that note with the public on his…
David Byrne Rode His Bike to Our Office and Talked About Everything
David Byrne performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April.Amy Harris/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the late-1970s, when David Byrne formed the iconic (and alas, now-defunct) Talking Heads, his career has been an endless stream of fascinating side projects, starting with his super-weird, super-cool Brian…
Major League Baseball Wants Cindy Hyde-Smith to Return its $5,000 Donation
Cindy Hyde-Smith campaigns in Mississippi before the runoff election.Zach Roberts/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Almost two weeks after Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said that if she were invited to a public hanging she would be “in the front row,” Major League Baseball PAC donated $5,000, the legal maximum, to her campaign. Now…
Cindy Hyde-Smith Attended an All-White “Segregation Academy”
Sarah Warnock/The Clarion-Ledger/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican candidate in the Mississippi Senate race attended an all-white “segregation academy” in the 1970s. On Friday, the Jackson Free Press reported that Cindy Hyde-Smith, who recently came under fire for making a joke about lynching and another one about voter…
A Gunman Targeted Their Church, Here’s How They Remember that Day
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late October a few hours after the weekly noontime Bible study, Travis Hines didn’t know that a gunman was outside. The 43-year-old Family Life Director at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was inside the church with a few of his colleagues, when a…