Weekly Roundup
May 24-30, 2021
The Luckiest Workers in America? Teenagers — May 30, 2021 via The New York Times
The Forgotten Women of Black Wall Street — May 29, 2021 via Bloomberg CityLab
What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations — May 28, 2021 via Bloomberg Businessweek
May 17-23, 2021
The Joy of Black Cooking: Netflix Series Gets to the Heart of American Food Culture — May 20, 2021 via Bloomberg Pursuits
The How-To Issue — May 18, 2021 via Bloomberg Businessweek
2020 Best in Business Awards Honoree —May 17, 2021 via SABEW
‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision — May 16, 2021 via The New York Times
May 3-9, 2021
The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read — May 7, 2021 via The New York Times
March 30-April 4, 2021
March 22-29, 2021
All Georgia adults will be eligible for coronavirus vaccines starting Thursday — March 23, 2021 via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Abby Phillip Asks the Right Questions — March 22, 2021 via The Cut
March 15-21, 2021
Stores That Defined American Malls Eye a Freestanding Future `— March 21, 2021 via Bloomberg News
Amazon Workers Consider Unionizing at Several More U.S. Sites — March 20, 2021 via Bloomberg News
Turning an economic corner? — March 19, 2021 via Marketplace
March 8-14, 2021
A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind — March 12, 2021 via Bloomberg Businessweek
March 1-7, 2021
Amazon Union Is a Tough Sell in Town Where $15 an Hour Goes a Long Way — March 1, 2021 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 22-28, 2021
America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama — Feb. 27, 2021 via The Atlantic
Buy Black Trend Sees Staying Power With Corporate America Buy-In — Feb. 26, 2021 via Bloomberg News
Black History Month Had a Little Less Hashtag Activism This Year — Feb. 25, 2021 via Bloomberg Equality
‘Union guy’ Joe Biden keeps his distance from union fight — Feb. 24, 2021 via Politico
Feb. 15-21, 2021
CoCo Rocha Trains New Generation of Models to Survive a Predatory Industry — Feb. 20, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Can Allbirds Live Up to Its $1 BIllion Valuation? — Feb. 19, 2021 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 1-7, 2021
Meet the Creative Class Making Atlanta the New Epicenter of American Arts — Feb. 3, 2021 via InStyle
Jan. 25 – Jan. 31, 2021
Under Armour Looks on the Mend with CEO Aiming to Widen Appeal — Jan. 28, 2021 via Bloomberg News
In ‘Just as I Am,’ actress Cicely Tyson reflects on 96 years of life well lived — Jan. 27, 2021 via The Washington Post
Jan. 18-24, 2021
Black mecca or most unequal US city: will the real Atlanta please stand up — Jan. 24, 2021 via The Guardian
Jan. 11-17, 2021
In Atlanta, A Wave Of Coronavirus Deaths And The Questions Left `in `its Wake — Jan. 17, 2021 via NPR
Jan. 4-10, 2021
Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control — Jan. 10, 2021 via The Washington Post
The World’s Best Bureaucrat — Jan. 4, 2021 via Intelligencer
Dec. 28, 2020 – Jan. 3, 2021
Cancel New Year’s Eve Forever — Dec. 28, 2020 via The New Yorker
Dec. 21-27, 2020
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men — Dec. 24, 2020 via ProPublica
Bloomberg Equality: New Virus Aid Targets Black-Owned Businesses — Dec. 23, 2020 via Bloomberg News
‘This mall has been devastated.’ A lean Christmas, empty stores and an unsettling future — Dec. 22, 2020 via The Los Angeles Times
Dec. 14-20, 2020
What If You Could Do It All Over? — Dec. 15, 2020 via The New Yorker
Jealousy List 2020 — Dec. 14, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Dec. 7-13, 2020
After a Hard Year, Holiday Commercials Get Real — Dec. 8, 2020 via The New York Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020 — Dec. 7, 2020 via Vanity Fair
Nov. 30 – Dec. 6, 2020
Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns Has Now Lost 7 Relatives to COVID — Dec. 6, 2020 via Daily Beast
Yamiche Alcindor Wants America to See Its Flaws — Dec. 5, 2020 via Glamour
A Town’s Secret Propels ‘The Mothers,’ a Lauded Debut Novel — Dec. 4, 2020 via The New York Times
The Fatal Flaw of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ — Dec. 3, 2020 via The New Yorker
UPS Restricts Some Packages From Nike, Gap Amid Online Rush — Dec. 2, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Obama’s raw recollections on race in ‘A Promised Land’ — Dec. 1, 2020 via The Washington Post
The Black residents fighting Atlanta to stay in their homes — Nov. 30, 2020 via Al Jazeera
Nov. 23-29, 2020
Kind of a Big Deal: Black Friday — Nov. 28, 2020 via Skimm’This
Black Friday Gets Busted by Covid in Sign of Retail Future — Nov. 27, 2020 via Bloomberg News
I Remember When Rock Was Young — Nov. 26, 2020 via The New York Times
A Gift Guide Featuring Black-Owned Businesses, for Those Who Like to Pamper — Nov. 25, 2020 via The New York Times
The Heavy Toll of The Black Belt’s Wastewater Crisis — Nov. 23, 2020 via The New Yorker
Nov. 16-22, 2020
President Barack Obama Talks to Jesmyn Ward About A Promised Land — Nov. 22, 2020 via Vanity Fair
It’s Masks and Plexiglass for Mall Santas Trying to Lure Family Shoppers — Nov. 18, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
The Queen’s Gambit and the Dangerous Drug-Induced Genius — Nov. 16, 2020 via Bazaar
Nov. 9-15, 2020
Charles and Diana Chat — Nov. 15, 2020 via Netflix
‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana — Nov. 14, 2020 via The New York Times
Red Lobster releasing gift boxes filled with Cheddar Bay Biscuits — Nov. 13, 2020 via 11 Alive
Georgia Republicans Turn Trump’s Baseless Claims of Voter Fraud Into an Electoral Strategy — Nov. 12, 2020 via The New Yorker
Target Is Reopening Its Looted Store With Black Shoppers In Mind — Nov. 11, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 2-8, 2020
The Oprah’s Favorite Things 2020 List Is Here! — Nov. 6, 2020 via O Magazine
Reenacting The Trial of a Black Women Convicted of Voter Fraud — Nov. 3, 2020 via The New Yorker
When The Virus Came for the American Dream — Nov. 2. 2020 via The New York Times Magazine
October 26 – November 1
Retailers Are Battening Down Stores Across the U.S., Worried About Election Day Violence — Oct. 31, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe announce engagement — Oct. 30, 2020 via The Athletic
Can Gap Escape the Whirlwind? New CEO Confronts Years of Decline — Oct. 26, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal
October 19-25, 2020
Black-Owned Businesses Hope the Summer Boom Doesn’t Fade — Oct. 23, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
First-time Black voters, from Gen Z to new citizens to Snoop Dogg, on what’s driving them — Oct. 22, 2020 via NBC News
Atlanta’s For Keeps bookstore owner says Sweet Auburn spot is no mistake — Oct. 21, 2020 via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remembering New Orleans’ Overlooked Ties to Slavery — Oct. 20, 2020 via NPR
My Mustache, My Self — Oct. 19, 2020 via The New York Times
October 12-18, 2020
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Too Few Polling Places — Oct. 17, 2020 via NPR
The water boy’s hustle —Oct. 16, 2020 via Canopy Atlanta
Ad Agency Founder Fires Himself After Making Racist Remarks — Oct. 15, 2020 via Bloomberg News
A Mayor Named Keisha — Oct. 14, 2020 via Glamour
How We Lie to Ourselves About History — Oct. 13, 2020 via The New Yorker
Spirit Halloween Rises from the Dead. Again. And Again. — Oct. 12, 2020 via The New York Times
October 5-11, 2020
Most U.S. Shoppers Say They Won’t Set Foot in a Mall This Year — Oct. 9, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The German model for America — Oct. 8, 2020 via Vox
“Left Side, Strong Side”: Remember the Titans at 20 —Oct. 5, 2020 via GQ
September 28 – October 4, 2020
‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Review: Tragedy Reconstructed — Oct. 4, 2020 via The New York Times
COVID-19’s Impact On The Holiday Marketing Season — Oct. 1, 2020 via Pollack Group
Tanqueray, Humans of New York Star, Brings in Over $1.5 Million in Donations — Sept. 28, 2020
September 21-27, 2020
The 15% Pledge Is a Mixed Blessing for Black Beauty Brands — Sept. 25, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg, Champion of Gender Equality, Dies at 87 — Sept. 21, 2020 via NPR
September 14-20, 2020
What Happened at Ed Buck’s Apartment? — Sept. 20, 2020 via The New York Times
Saying Goodbye to Century 21 — Sept. 19, 2020 via The New York Times
Buying Myself Back: When does a model own her own image — Sept. 18, 2020 via The Cut
With club closed, Magic City finds a way to virtually entertain — Sept. 17, 2020 via AJC
How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group — Sept. 16, 2020 via The New York Times
Near birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr., a predominantly Black nursing home tries to heal after outbreak — Sept. 15,2020 via The Washington Post
L.A. Times reporter Angel Jennings is named newsroom head of culture and talent — Sept. 14, 2020 via The Los Angeles Times
September 7-13, 2020
Do These Look Like Future Killers? — Sept. 13, 2020 via The Miami Herald
Killer in court stirs memories of notorius ‘bully’ murder — Sept. 12, 2020 via Sun Sentinel
Deals Are Being Dropped as Buyers Turn Wary During the Pandemic — Sept. 11, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal
Before You Can Fix Your Newsroom, You Need to Fix Your Life — Sept. 10, 2020 via Nieman Reports
The Stalking of Kristin — Sept. 9, 2020 via The Washington Post
TMZ’s Newsroom Is A Hotbed For Racism, Misogyny, And Verbal Abuse, Ex-Employees Say — Sept. 8, 2020 via BuzzFeed News
August 31 – September 6, 2020
Goodbye to Lord & Taylor, and the Way We Used to Shop — Sept. 6, 2020 via The New York Times
We’re All Socially Awkward Now — Sept. 5, 2020 via The New York Times
On Witness and Respair: Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic — Sept. 4, 2020 via Vanity Fair
Generation Work From Home May Never Recover — Sept. 3, 2020 via The Atlantic
How Midtown Became a Commercial District, and Kept Its Soul — Sept. 2, 2020 via WABE
Centering Black women to make this economy more equal — Sept. 1, 2020 via Marketplace
Bloomberg reporter Holman moving to Atlanta bureau — Aug. 31, 2020 via Talking Biz Newes
August 24-30, 2020
The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, In The Words of Her Mother — Aug. 25, 2020 via Vanity Fair
The Hustlers at Scores — Aug. 24, 2020 via The Cut
August 17-23, 2020
Isabel Wilkerson of The New York Times— Aug. 22, 2020 via Pulitzer Prize
Americans Surprise Wall Street With Spending Boom During Coronavirus— Aug. 19, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Home Depot Rises as Consumers Splurge on Do-It-Yourself Projects — Aug. 18, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Cardi B in Conversation with Joe Biden — Aug. 17, 2020 via ELLE
August 10-16, 2020
Disparity in Jobs Goes Deeper Than Racism, According to New Book — Aug. 14, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Hollywood’s entertainment industry unions have a whiteness problem— Aug. 13, 2020 via The Los Angeles Times
Racism’s Hidden Toll — Aug. 12, 2020 via The New York Times
Retail Chains Abandon Manhattan: ‘It’s Unsustainable’— Aug. 11, 2020 via The New York Times
August 3-9, 2020
A Season of Grief and Release: 5 Months of the Virus— Aug. 9, 2020 via The New York Times
Sweatpants Forever— Aug. 8, 2020 via The New York Times Magazine
How the Pandemic Defeated America— Aug. 6, 2020 via The Atlantic
Wave of evictions expected as moratoriums end in many states — August 5, 2020 via The Associated Press
The Perils of ‘People of Color’— August 4, 2020 via The New Yorker
Where’s the Sympathy for Lonely Young People?— August 3, 2020 via Bloomberg News
July 27 – August 2, 2020
Henrietta Lacks and Her Remarkable Cells Will Finally See Some Payback — Aug. 2, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal
A School Reopens, and the Coronavirus Creeps In— August 1, 2020 via The New York Times
Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin —July 31, 2020 via The New York Times
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation — July 30, 2020 via The New York Times
Grey’s Anatomy will tackle coronavirus pandemic in season 17 — July 28, 2020 via Entertainment Weekly
July 20-26, 2020
The Bizarre Fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade’s Parent Company — July 25, 2020 via ProPublica
Mark-Paul Gosselaar to finally watch Saved by the Bell and will document it on new podcast — July 24, 2020 via Entertainment Weekly
China Vowing Retaliation After Consulate Closure— July 23, 2020 via Bloomberg News
How Ben & Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism — July 22, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Andrew Gillum opens up about rehab and therapy— July 20, 2020 via Politico
July 13-19, 2020
Forgotten souls: Chicago’s killer heat wave of 1995— July 19, 2020 via Chicago Tribune
The Ongoing Struggle of John Lewis— July 18, 2020 via The New Yorker
July 6-12, 2020
You Just Can’t Wear Lipstick Under a Mask— July 11, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Editorial: COVID-19 and 1995 heat wave: Lessons of community from stealthy foes— July 10, 2020 via The Chicago Tribune
Is Anyone Watching Quibi— July 8, 2020 via Vulture
Americans Are Living in an Alternate History — July 7, 2020 via The Atlantic
Want Is the Summer Book I Couldn’t Put Down — July 6, 2020 via Vulture
June 29 – July 5, 2020
Trevor Noah Is Not Done Talking About America’s Racial Problems — July 3, 2020 via Bloomberg News
How the American Got Fleeced— July 2, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
America’s Enduring Caste System— July 1, 2020 via The New York Times
June 22-28, 2020
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See— June 28, 2020 via The New Yorker
Kanye West Signs Multiyear Deal to Sell New Yeezy Line at Gap — June 27, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Unrest Is Changing the Way Americans Spend Money— June 26, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Black Businesses Need More Than Retail Activism to Survive — June 25, 2020 via Bloomberg News
What Is Owed— June 24, 2020 via The New York Times Magazine
The Trayvon Generation — June 22, 2020 via The New Yorker
June 15-21, 2020
How a West Baltimore nursing home has zero COVID-19 infections— June 21, 2020 via The Baltimore Sun
Insecure Is Finally Growing Up — June 20, 2020 via The Atlantic
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom— June 19, 2020 via The New Yorker
The Supermarket After the Pandemic — June 18, 2020 via The Atlantic
The Essential Spike Lee— June 17, 2020 via The New York Times
Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In — June 16, 2020 via The New York Times
Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules — June 15, 2020 via The New York Times
June 8-14, 2020
#PublishingPaidMe and a Day of Action Reveal an Industry Reckoning— June 9, 2020 via The New York Times
Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Newsrooms — June 8, 2020 via The New York Times
June 1-7, 2020
Ben & Jerry’s Refuses to Be Bland — June 7, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Tracking the Reopening of New York City— June 6, 2020 via Bloomberg News
A Minneapolis Restaurant Owner Protects His Community — June 5, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Racial Repression Is Built Into The U.S. Economy — June 4, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
The Essential Spike Lee — June 3, 2020 via The New York Times
Black female mayors in spotlight amid protests and pandemic — June 2, 2020 via The Associated Press
May 25-31, 2020
‘It was me. I know it was me.’—May 30, 2020 via The Washington Post
Ta-Nehisi Coates On ‘The Water Dancer’— May 25, 2020 via NPR
May 18-24, 2020
J. Screwed— May 24, 2020 via Planet Money
Default Notices Are Piling Up for Retailers Unable to Pay Rent — May 23, 2020 via Bloomberg News
J.C. Penney Bankruptcy Shows That Retailers Need to Slim Down— May 22, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
May 11-17, 2020
J.C. Penney Couldn’t Find a Way to Shake Off Its Identity Crisis— May 15, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working from Home Becomes the Norm— May 12, 2020 via The New York Times
May 4-10, 2020
In ‘ The Nickel Boys,’ Colson Whitehead Depicts a Real-Life House of Horrors— May 9, 2020 via The New York Times
Neiman Marcus’ Luxury Dreams Were Shaken by Debt and Disease — May 8, 2020 via Bloomberg News
How ‘Mad Men’ Became the Perfect Show for the Pandemic — May 7, 2020 via The Ringer
A Grey’s Anatomy Catch-up Guide, No Matter How Far Behind You Are — May 6, 2020 via Vulture
April 27 – May 3, 2020
We Can’t Afford to Lose the Postal System— May 3, 2020 via The New Yorker
Confessions of a Shopaholic — May 2, 2020 via Marketplace
‘It’s a start’ is about the nicest thing you can say about shopping in the coronavirus era — May 1, 2020 via Dallas Morning News
Atlanta Isn’t Ready to Reopen— April 30, 2020 via The Atlantic
April 20-26, 2020
One Crazy Detail About ‘The Wonder Years’ Is Blowing People’s Minds— April 26, 2020 via HuffPost
Here’s a State of Play for America’s Ailing Department Stores — April 25, 2020 via Bloomberg News
A Pandemic Is Bad for Deals — April 24, 2020 via Bloomberg Opinion
Generation Free Fall— April 23, 2020 via BuzzFeed News
An Oral History of the Pandemic Warnings Trump Ignored — April 22, 2020 via Wired
Zoom Parties Are So Five Weeks Ago: Hello Virtual Reality — April 21, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Reviving Phyllis Schlafly In “Mrs. America”— April 20, 2020 via The New Yorker
April 13-19, 2020
What Returning to Work Will Look Like in Offices, Cafes and Factories Around the World— April 19, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The Black Plague — April 18, 2020 via The New Yorker
The Best Shows to Stream If You’re in Quarantine— April 17, 2020 via Vanity Fair
The Return of Fear— April 16, 2020 via Intelligencer
Coronavirus Hits, and Finally Everyone Is Watching The Wire— April 15, 2020 via Vanity Fair
True Religion Files for Bankruptcy Again as Denim’s Allure Fades— April 14, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The Pandemic’s First Wave — April 13, 2020 via The Washington Post
April 6-12, 2020
If You Can’t Go Outside, Read — April 12, 2020 via The New York Times
Unexpected Movie Masterpieces to Watch in Quarantine — April 11, 2020 via The Atlantic
‘Unimaginable’ pain: Coronavirus robs Michigan woman of whole family— April 10, 2020
How Salon Shutdowns Are Disrupting Black Women’s Haircare — April 8, 2020 via Jezebel
The 9/11 Era Is Over— April 7, 2020 via The Atlantic
Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort— April 7, 2020 via The New York Times
Memories of the 1918 Pandemic From Those Who Survived — April 6, 2020 via The New York Times
March 30 – April 5, 2020
No Salon, No Problem: Americans Are Becoming Their Own Stylists— April 5, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The Month Coronavirus Felled American Business — April 4, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal
Did a Cult Hair-Care Line Cause Thousands of Women to Lose Their Hair? — April 3, 2020 via The New York Times
A Walker in the City — April 2, 2020 via The New Yorker
Macy’s Comeback Plan Thrown Into Chaos With 2020 Falling Apart — April 1, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Retail workers in their 60s, 70s and 80s say they’re worried about their health — but need the money— March 31, 2020 via The Washington Post
How the Pandemic Will End— March 30, 2020 via The Atlantic
March 23-29, 2020
Learning How to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for— March 29, 2020 via The New York Times
White House Pays Underwear Makers to Churn Out Millions of Masks— March 28, 2020 via Bloomberg News
In the U.S., Luxury Brands Board Up the Store— March 27, 2020 via The New York Times
Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for — March 26, 2020 via The New York Times Magazine
Stuck-at-Home Shoppers Aren’t Using E-Commerce as an Escape— March 25, 2020 via Bloomberg News
47,000 U.S. Stores Closed in About a Week Over Coronavirus— March 24, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The Great Empty— March 23, 2020 via The New York Times
March 16-22, 2020
Floodlines: Timeline of Events — March 22, 2020 via The Atlantic
Remembering A’Lelia Walker, Who Made A Ritzy Space for Harlem’s Queer Black Artists— March 21, 2020 via NPR Code Switch
Gov. J.B. Pritzker issue order requiring residents to ‘stay at home’ starting Saturday— March 20, 2020 via Chicago Tribune
You Can Stream, but You Can’t Hide — March 19, 2020 via The New York Times
Amazon Drivers Received Single Wipe to Clean Vans Before Shifts— March 18, 2020 via Bloomberg News
In Just Hours, America’s Family Businesses Hurtled Into Limbo— March 17, 2020 via Bloomberg News
The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff— March 16, 2020 via The Atlantic
March 9-15, 2020
Bar Hoppers Defy Virus Fears, Make Last Call Before Shutdown — March 15, 2020 via Bloomberg News
I’m afraid of COVID-19. There, I said it. — March 14, 2020 via Chicago Sun-Times
N.J. Mega-Mall Is Delaying Its Grand Opening Due to Coronavirus — March 13, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Seattle’s Patient Zero Spread Coronavirus Despite Ebola-Style Lockdown— March 12, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
N.J. Mega-Mall Tests Virus Fears With Shops, Water Park Opening — March 11, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Yes, You Should Work From Home to Help Fight Coronavirus Spread— March 10, 2020 via Bloomberg News
March 2 – 8, 2020
Wrangler’s Plan to Enter China Upended the Virus Outbreak— March 6, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Gap Names Old Navy Head Sonia Syngal as CEO of Full Company— March 5, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 24 – March 1, 2020
Joe Coulombe, Who Founded Trader Joe’s, Dies at 89— March 1, 2020 via The New York Times
These Black College Students Are Using An Age Old Tradition To Pay For School— Feb. 28, 2020 via Refinery 29
The World Depends on You Throwing a Party — Feb. 27, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Checkup for $30, Teeth Cleaning $25: Walmart Gets Into Health Care — Feb. 26, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Kobe Bryant’s Memorial Brought Out a Side of Michael Jordan I’d Never Seen Before — Feb. 25, 2020 via Slate
Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA— Feb. 24, 2020 via The New York Times
Feb. 17-23, 2020
The Decline and Fall of Victoria’s Secret Titan Les Wexner— Feb. 21, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Victoria’s Secret Sells Control to Sycamore; Wexner Steps Down — Feb. 20, 2020 via Bloomberg News
It’s OK to Leave Your Headphones at Home— Feb. 18, 2020 via The Atlantic
Black Americans Who Broke Barriers on Wall Street — and Beyond — Feb. 17, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 10-16, 2020
Victoria’s Secret Added New Safety Measures. Models Say It’s Not Enough.— Feb. 12, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 3-9, 2020
Gwyneth Paltrow Won’t Get Pushed Around by Venture Capitalists— Feb. 7, 2020 via Bloomberg News
China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus— Feb. 5, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Macy’s to Shut 125 Stores to Survive in New Retail Era— Feb. 4, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2020
Divorce Story — Feb. 1, 2020 via Marketplace
PHOTOS: ‘Insecure’ cast spills season 4 secrets at Sundance— Jan. 30, 2020 via The Grio
Vanessa Bryant Posted A Heartbreaking Photo of Kobe and Gianna— Jan. 29, 2020 via Buzzfeed News
Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision— Jan. 28, 2020 via The New Yorker
The Fight to Preserve African American History — Jan. 27, 2020 via The New Yorker
Jan. 20-26, 2020
Kobe Bryant Has Died in a Helicopter Crash— Jan. 26, 2020 via The Ringer
They Shared a Bunk Bed Growing Up. Both Were Killed by the Police.— Jan. 24, 2020 via The New York Times
Jan. 13-19, 2020
Gap’s Ditched Old Navy Spinoff Nixes Female Fortune 500 — Jan. 19, 2020 via Bloomberg News
For Bumble, the Future Isn’t Female, It’s Female Marketing — Jan. 18, 2020 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Exclusive: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Beautiful Bald Head and Discusses Alopecia for the First Time — The Root via Jan. 17, 2020
Gap Backs Away From Plan to Spin Off Old Navy— Jan. 16, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Generation Z Willing to Pay More for Eco-Friendly Products — Jan. 14, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 6 – 12, 2020
Eileen Fisher built a fashion empire. Her employees now own nearly half of it.— Jan. 8, 2020 via CNN Business
Four CEOs Found the Secret to Thriving During the Retail Apocalypse— Jan. 7, 2020 via Bloomberg News
American Dream Mall Bucks Retail Nightmare, Nears 90% Lease Rate— Jan. 6, 2020 via Bloomberg News
Dec. 30, 2019 – Jan. 5, 2020
Up and Then Down— Jan. 3, 2020 via The New Yorker
For many black families, New Year’s greens and black-eyed peas fill the belly and the soul— Jan. 1, 2020 via The Los Angeles Times
Dec. 23-29, 2019
Sweethearts Forever. Then Came Alzheimer’s, Murder and Suicide.— Dec. 29, 2019 via The New York Times
The Year in Graphics: 2019 — Dec. 28, 2019 via Bloomberg News
The 2000s Never Ended— Dec. 27, 2019 via The Atlantic
Toni Morrison, the Titan of Literature— Dec. 26, 2019 via The New York Times
Elijah Cummings’s American Dream, and American Obstacles— Dec. 23, 2019 via The New York Times
Dec. 16-22, 2019
From Beyonce to Zoe Kravitz, Why Braids Were the Hairstyle o the Decade— Dec. 20, 2019 via Teen Vogue
Fashion Nova’s Secret: Underpaid Workers in Los Angeles Factories— Dec. 19, 2019 via The New York Times
Herman Boone, Alexandria football coach immortalized in “Remember the Titans,” dies at 84— Dec. 18, 2019 via WTOP
Retailers Gave You Free Returns and You Ruined It— Dec. 17, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Santa’s a sleazebag. The elves are drunk. How did Christmas sweaters get so raunchy? — Dec. 16, 2019 via The Washington Post
Dec. 9-15, 2019
The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s— Dec. 14, 2019 via BuzzFeed News
Retail Apocalypse Gives More Women a Shot as CEO— Dec. 13, 2019 via Bloomberg News
You Have Three Years to Save Lord & Taylor. What Do You Do?— Dec. 9, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Dec. 2-8, 2019
NPR’s Favorite Books of 2019— Dec. 3, 2019 via NPR
Lord & Taylor Is Returning to New York With a Mini Store— Dec. 2, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 25 – Dec. 1, 2019
Walmart, Target Outdraw Department Stores: Black Friday Update — Nov. 30, 2019
Robot Vacuum Are the Big Hit This Black Friday, Kohl’s CEO Says— Nov. 29, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Don’t Believe the Hype: Black Friday’s Not What It Used to Be— Nov. 27, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 18-24, 2019
The Correct Time to Eat Thanksgiving Dinner— Nov. 24, 2019 via The Atlantic
What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say — Nov. 23, 2019 via The Atlantic
L Brands Has Three Months to Placate Activist Investor Barington— Nov. 22, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Macy’s Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Holiday After Tough Quarter— Nov. 21, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Macy’s Slumps as Website Hack Adds to Department-Store Malaise— Nov. 21, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Kohl’s Plunges Most in Almost Three Years on Profit Forecast— Nov. 20, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Weak Home Depot, Kohl’s Results Unnerve the Retail Industry — Nov. 19, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 11 – 17, 2019
9 student deaths at USC since August stun campus, spark alarm — Nov. 17, 2019 via The Los Angeles Times
Your Birthday Is One Day — Nov. 16, 2019 via The Cut
He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He’s Still Healing — Nov. 15, 2019 via NPR
Fashion? They’re Over It — Nov. 14, 2019 via The New York Times
The Homeownership Obsession — Nov. 13, 2019 via Curbed
Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism — Nov. 12, 2019 via Columbia Journalism Review
Nov. 4 – 10, 2019
Oct. 28 – Nov. 3, 2019
An Oral History of Heat Wave— October 28, 2019 via Chicago Magazine
Oct. 21-27, 2019
Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty — Oct. 27, 2019 via The New Yorker
Nordstrom Preps for Debut in World’s Tallest Residential Skyscraper — Oct. 22, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Nordstrom NYC Has In-Store Food Delivery, Bars for Hungry Shoppers — Oct. 21, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Oct. 14-20, 2019
Some minority workers are up to 20% more likely than white workers to report canceled shifts at work — Oct. 18, 2019 via CNN Business
A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11. — Oct. 17, 2019
The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive — Oct. 15, 2019 via The Atlantic
Oct. 7-13, 2019
L Brands Slims Headquarters Staff in Victoria’s Secret Overhaul — Oct. 10, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2019
Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 — Oct. 4, 2019 via The New York Times
Racial Issues Flare at Chicago’s Elite Payton College Prep — Oct. 2, 2019 via WBEZ
Forever 21 Needs Older Shoppers to Come Back From Bankruptcy — Oct. 1, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 23-29, 2019
How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last — Sept. 25, 2019 via The New York Times
Sept. 16-22, 2019
Banana Republic Discovers There’s a Market Beyond Skinny People — Sept. 18, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 9-15, 2019
Superfan: A Love Story — Sept. 15, 2019 via The New Yorker
As Victoria’s Secret Weighs What’s Next, Rihanna May Be Onto Something — Sept. 14, 2019 via Bloomberg News
I Was Caroline Calloway. — Sept. 12, 2019 via The Cut
Victoria’s Secret’s Mysterious Turnaround Plan — Sept. 11, 2019 via Bloomberg Opinion
On 9/11, Luck Meant Everything — Sept. 10, 2019 via The Atlantic
Sept. 2-8, 2019
Aug. 25 – Sept. 1, 2019
“Friends” Hasn’t Aged Well — Aug. 29, 2019 via BuzzFeed
The 117-year rise and fall of JCPenney, one of America’s largest department stores — Aug. 28, 2019 via Business Insider
Aug. 18 – 24, 2019
The 1619 Project: Live Stream — Aug. 19, 2019 via The New York Times Magazine
The State With the Highest Suicide Rate Desperately Needs Shrinks — Aug. 18, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Aug. 12-17, 2019
The 1619 Project — Aug. 17, 2019 via The New York Times Magazine
The Myth of the ‘Underage Woman’ — Aug. 16, 2019 via The Atlantic
WeWork’s All-Male Board Is Pretty Typical of IPOs These Days — Aug. 15, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Starbucks is bringing back the Pumpkin Spice Latte on its earliest launch date ever — Aug. 14, 2019 via Business Insider
I Lost My Identity to a Fraudster, and It Took Six Years to Clean Up the Mess — Aug. 13, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
The Great Land Robbery — Aug. 12, 2019 via The Atlantic
Aug. 5-11, 2019
I Was Wandering. Toni Morrison Found Me. — Aug. 10, 2019 via The New York Times via The New York Times
Eighty Years of Ferguson — Aug. 9, 2019 via BuzzFeed News
The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings — Aug. 8, 2019 via The New York Times
Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think — Aug. 7, 2019 via The New York Times
Victoria’s Secret Hires Transgender Model Following Criticism — Aug. 6, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Victoria’s Secret’s Top Marketing Executive to Exit This Month — Aug. 5, 2019 via Bloomberg News
July 29 – Aug. 4, 2019
Walmart, site of recent shootings, has a complicated history with guns — Aug. 4, 2019 via The Washington Post
How America’s top newsrooms recruit interns from a small circle of colleges — Aug. 3, 2019 via AAJA Voices
The Endless Search for Comfortable Work Flats — Aug. 2, 2019 via Bloomberg Pursuits
Who Gets to Be An ‘American’? These Artists Have An Idea or Two — Aug. 1, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
We know about exit interviews. What about “stay” interviews? — July 31, 2019 via Marketplace
Season 4 of ‘Last Chance U’ and College Football’s Cycle of Toxic Promises — July 30, 2019 via The Ringer
Victoria’s Secret Has More Than a Jeffrey Epstein Problem — July 29, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
July 22-28, 2019
What White Girl Coming-of-Age Movies Don’t Do For a Black Girl — July 28, 2019 via Vice
Now and Then Is A Darker Than You Remember — July 27, 2019 via Refinery 29
Remembering Chicago’s 1919 Race Riots With Public Art — July 26, 2019 via WBEZ
Kamala Harris’ Moment — July 25, 2019 via Rolling Stone
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever — July 24, 2019 via The Atlantic
The Scheduling Woes of Adult Friendship — July 23, 2019 via The Atlantic
The Case of Al Franken — July 22, 2019 via The New Yorker
July 15-21, 2019
Amazon’s Most Ambitious Research Project Is a Convenience Store — July 20, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Barnes & Noble’s Jekyll and Hyde — July 19, 2019 via New York Magazine
The Democrats’ New Strategy for Capturing Black America’s Attention — July 18, 2019 via The Atlantic
Ex-Cons Find Second Chances Easier to Get In Tight Labor Market — July 17, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Cannabis CEOs Are White Men, Just Like in the Rest of Corporate America — July 16, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
July 8-14, 2019
What Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes say about our era — July 12, 2019 via The Washington Post
Hear Me Out: Barbie’s Instagram Is Quite Possibly The Best Satire On The Planet — July 11 2019 via BuzzFeed
Here’s why you can’t escape Instagram swimsuit ads — July 10, 2019 via Vox
The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy — July 9, 2019 via The New York Times
July 1-7, 2019
America Has Reached Peak Face Mask — July 7, 2019 via The Atlantic
Michael Bloomberg on How to Succeed in Business — July 6, 2019 via The New York Times
Texting Moves to the Workplace, as Do the Awkward Misfires. ‘I’m Here. I Luv U.’ — July 5, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
June 24-30, 2019
The Long Slow Death of Venice — June 30, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Books for the Ages — June 29, 2019 via The Washington Post
Border Detainees Are Fed ‘Appalling’ Menu of Slimy Sandwiches and Unhealthy Ramen — June 28, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Back-to-School Spending Will Rise 9% and Prime Day Is the Reason — June 26, 2019 via Bloomberg News
June 17-23, 2019
Judge Judging Is Still Judging You — June 21, 2019 via The New York Times Magazine
J.C. Penney Says Trump’s Proposed Tariffs Will Impact Women More — June 20, 2019 via Bloomberg News
J. C. Penney and Kohl’s have failed their most loyal customers: Middle-aged moms — June 19, 2019 via The Washington Post
Brooklyn teen takes his favorite subway train to prom, aspires to be MTA chairman — June 18, 2019 via New York Daily News
Forget the Mall, Shoppers Are Buying Gucci at Airports — June 17, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
June 10-16, 2019
This Manhattan Toy Store Wants to Babysit Your Kids — June 16, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood — June 13, 2019 via Nantucket Magazine
Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity — June 12, 2019 via The Atlantic
The Day The Music Burned — June 11, 2019 via The New York Times Magazine
June 3-9, 2019
It Seems Implausible, But American Eagle Is Thriving at the Mall — June 4, 2019 via Bloomberg News
May 27 – June 2, 2019
The Welfare Queen — June 2, 2019 via Slate
The Central Park Five: ‘We Were Just Baby Boys’ — June 1, 2019 via The New York Times
Gap Plunges as Old Navy Results Cast Doubt on Spinoff Strategy — May 30, 2019 via Bloomberg News
There Are Two Types of Airport People — May 29, 2019 via The Atlantic
Can J. Crew Find Itself – and Its Customers – Again? — May 30, 2019 via Vanity Fair
May 20-26, 2019
Amazon Bets on Kohl’s as Its Own Brick-and-Mortar Efforts Falter — May 20, 2019 via Bloomberg News
May 13-19, 2019
CBS Censors “The Good Fight” For A Musical Short About China — May 16, 2019 via The New Yorker
They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud. — May 15, 2019 via The New York Times
U.S. Consumers at the Mall Won’t Avoid Trade War Hit — May 14, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Chico’s Weighs Buyout While Trying to Move Beyond the Mall – May 13, 2019 via Bloomberg News
May 6-12, 2019
Party City Is Closing 45 Stores After Struggling To Find Enough Helium to Fill Balloons – May 12, 2019 via BuzzFeed
Victoria’s Secret is Giving Its Fashion Show a ‘Rethink’ — May 11, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Here’s Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous — May 10, 2019 via Intelligencer
Uncle Phil from ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel Air’ may be the best TV dad in history — this scene proves it — May 9, 2019 via The Undefeated
April 29 – May 5, 2019
Rise of the Lady Backpack — May 5, 2019 via The Atlantic
A mother’s anguish never ebbed as case of her son’s killer dragged on — May 4, 2019 via Chicago Sun-Times
‘An American Summer’ Presents The Human Side of Gun Violence in Chicago — May 3, 2019 via NPR
What Hollywood Owes to John Singleton — May 2, 2019 via Vanity Fair
Billionaires Under Fire Confront Wealth gap at Milken Conference — May 1, 2019 via Bloomberg News
John Singleton Changed How Hollywood Sees Black America — April 30, 2019 via The Atlantic
April 22-28, 2019
The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret — April 26, 2019 via The New York Times
Millennials Tried to Kill the American Mall, But Gen Z Might Save It — April 25, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
The Future of Shopping Is Already Happening in China — April 24, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
We Don’t Know How to Talk About Our Bodies — April 23, 2019 via Medium
Ye of great faith: Kanye West brings gospel and pop-art dazzle to Coachella — April 22, 2019 via The Los Angeles Times
April 15-21, 2019
Gen Z Will Be the Ultimate Pot Consumers — April 20, 2019 via Bloomberg News
You’re Still Here — April 19, 2019 via The New York Times
The Good Fight Is Quietly the Most Feminist Show on Television — April 18, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Was Your Boss Weird About Your Pregnancy? You’re Not the Only One — April 17, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Champion Accidentally Hit the Fashion Jackpot — April 16, 2019 via Bloomberg News
April 8-14, 2019
Big Brother at the Mall — April 13, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
For sale: A brand that pioneered cosmetics for women of color — April 11, 2019 via Marketplace
Impact of Millennials — April 9, 2019 via Bloomberg Live
The Office Rookies Who Ask for the World — April 8, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
April 1-7, 2019
March 25-31, 2019
Keeping Up With the Kardashian Cash Flow — March 31, 2019 via The New York Times
Corporate America Can’t Afford to Ignore Gen Z — March 30, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Joe Biden Isn’t The Answer — March 29, 2019 via New York Magazine
A decade of leggings controversy, explained — March 28, 2019 via Vox
March 18-24, 2019
Hudson Yards Is The Hotel California of New York — March 23, 2019 via The New Yorker
In Yoga Pants Era, J. Crew’s Madewell Finds Strength in Denim — March 21, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Inside U.S. Airlines’ Decisions to Keep Flying 737 MAX — March 20, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
A Harvard Dropout’s Plan to Fix College Admissions With Video Games — March 19, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo — March 18, 2019 via The Atlantic
March 11-17, 2019
Aidy Bryant Found Her Confidence on ‘S.N.L.’ On ‘Shrill’ She Found Herself. — March 17, 2019 via The New York Times
Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid This Guy to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages — March 16, 2019 via HuffPost
In Beto O’Rourke’s Announcement, His Wife’s Silence Stands Out — March 15, 2019 via The New York Times
Optimism Over Gap’s Big Split-Up Fades as Shares Erase Advance — March 14, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Neiman Marcus Finally Arrives in New York at Hudson Yards — March 13, 2019 via Bloomberg News
How Hip-Hop Talk Show ‘The Breakfast Club’ Became a Must-Stop Spot for 2020 Democratic Candidates — March 12, 2019 via The Daily Beast
March 4-10, 2019
These Women Have Been Breaking Barriers in Business for 150 Years — March 8, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Hudson Yards Bets $2 Billion a New Manhattan Mall Can Succeed — March 7, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 25 – March 3, 2019
Aminatou Sow on Making $300,000 and Sending Money Home to Family — March 1, 2019 via The Cut
DSW Bets Nail Salons in Shoe Stores Will Lure Millennial Women — Feb. 27, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Leaving Neverland Is a Chilling Indictment of Michael Jackson’s Legacy — Feb. 26, 2019 via Vulture
Feb. 18-24, 2019
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable — Feb. 24, 2019 via The Atlantic
Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Salvage the Bones,’ reviewed by Ron Charles — Feb. 20, 2019 via The Washington Post
We Built This: Nikole Hannah-Jones Has Raised The Bar For Investigative Journalism — Feb. 19, 2019 via HuffPost
Phylicia Rashad Is Everybody’s Mom — Feb. 18, 2019 via The Wall Street Journal
Feb. 11-17, 2019
The New York Times’ The Daily podcast host Michael Barbaro talks with Kara Swisher — Feb. 16, 2019 via Recode Decode
How Fancy Water Bottles Became a 21st-Century Status Symbol — Feb. 15, 2019 via The Atlantic
What’s That Building? Blanchard Hall At Wheaton College And The Underground Railroad — Feb. 14, 2019 via WBEZ
Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem — Feb. 13, 2019 via Bloomberg News
She Spoke Up About Sexual Harassment At Ernst & Young And Got Caught In A Web of Retaliation — Feb. 12, 2019 via HuffPost
JPMorgan Helps Expand Loan Program to Minority Business Owners — Feb. 11, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 4-10, 2019
Obituary for My 20s — Feb. 8, 2019 via The New York Times
Luxury Candles Tell the Story of the Harlem Renaissance — Feb. 7, 2019 via Bloomberg News
J.C. Penney to Stop Selling Appliances, Reduce Furniture – Feb. 6, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Elizabeth Warren apologizes for calling herself Native American — Feb. 5, 2019 via The Washington Post
Jan. 28 – Feb. 3, 2019
Atlanta Attracts Wealthy Black Transplants, But Locals Languish — Feb. 2, 2019 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Wealthy Black Executives Take on Racial Inequality — Feb. 1, 2019 via Bloomberg Markets Magazine
‘I’m Cold and I’m Afraid’ Across Midwest, Homeless Await Deep Freeze — Jan. 29, 2019 via The New York Times
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? — Jan. 28, 2019 via The New York Times
Jan. 21-27, 2019
Ex-Starbucks CEO Could Get Trump Re-elected — Jan. 27, 2019 via The Atlantic
Who Ran The Numbers Racket? Mom — Jan. 26, 2019 via NPR
The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders — Jan. 25, 2019 via GQ
Mitch McConnell Got Everything He Wanted. But at What Cost? — Jan. 24, 2019 via The New York Times Magazine
China will overtake the US as the world’s largest retail market this year — Jan. 23, 2019 via CNN Business
Millennial Burnout Is Now Being Televised — Jan. 22, 2019 via The Atlantic
Study: Cory Booker’s baby bonds nearly close the racial wealth gap for young adults — Jan. 21, 2019 via Vox
Jan. 14-20, 2019
U.S. Will Fail to Release Key Economic Report to Critical Moment — Jan. 16, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Food Companies Spending More on TV Ads Targeting Black Shoppers — Jan. 15, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 7, 2019 – Jan. 13, 2019
Gwyneth Paltrow: ‘I’m a real person’ — Jan. 12, 2019 via The Financial Times
Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez — Jan. 11, 2019 via Politico
CEO church was the highest last year since 2008 — Jan. 10, 2019 via CNN
Don’t Forget Jordan McNair — Jan. 9, 2019 via The Ringer
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation — Jan. 8, 2019 via BuzzFeed
Regina King’s ‘50% Women’ Goal Faces a Hard Reality in Hollywood — Jan. 7, 2019 via Bloomberg News
Dec. 31, 2018 – Jan. 6, 2019
Stitch Fix’s Success Story is Underappreciated — Jan. 6, 2019 via Bloomberg Opinion
The Best Skin-Care Is Being Rich — Jan. 5, 2019 via The Atlantic
Alice Walker’s Terrible Anti-Semitic Personal — to Her and to Me — Jan. 4, 2018 via Intelligencer
A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job — Jan. 3, 2019 via The New York Times
If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours — Jan. 2, 2019 via ProPublica
I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst of America. — Jan. 1, 2019 via The Huffington Post
In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role — Dec. 31, 2018 via The New York Times
Dec. 24-30, 2018
Ed Sadlowski: The Chicago Steelworker Who Fought to Unite the Working Class — Dec. 30, 2018 via The New York Times
In Amazon Go, no thinks I’m stealing — Dec. 29, 2018 via CNET
Richard Overton, World War II veteran and America’s oldest man, dies at 112 — Dec. 28, 2018 via The Washington Post
The Amazing Story Behind ‘Things Fall Apart’ — Dec. 27, 2018 via Slate
California’s youngest female mayor holds the gavel in Yorba Linda — Dec. 26, 2018 via The Los Angeles Times
U.S. retailers hope higher pay will buy more efficient workers — Dec. 25, 2018 via Associated Press
Dec. 17-23, 2018
The Test Used to Expose Housing Discrimination And Its Chicago Roots — Dec. 21, 2018 via WBEZ
Richelieu Dennis Wants To Turn Madam C.J. Walker’s House Into A Training Ground For Women of Color Entrepreneurs — Dec. 20, 2018 via AfroTech
The Wing Gets $75 Million to Expand Its Working Women Collective — Dec. 19, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
An opioid epidemic nobody talks about — Dec. 18, 2018 via The Washington Post
Women were pioneers of flight. So why aren’t airports named for them? — Dec. 17, 2018 via San Francisco Chronicle
Dec. 10-16, 2018
Morgan Stanley Calls Out Investor Bias Against Women, Minorities — Dec. 12, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Isabel Wilkerson Reviews Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing — Dec. 11, 2018 via The New York Times
How the Cashless Economy Shuts Out the Poor — Dec. 10, 2018 via The New York Times
Dec. 3-9, 2018
The Story of Mine Mill — Dec. 9, 2018 via NP CodeSwitch
The Bloomberg 50 — Dec. 8, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg Problem — Dec. 7, 2018 via The New York Times
Michelle Obama: By the Book — Dec. 6, 2018 via The New York Times
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality. — Dec. 4, 2018 via The New York Times
Amazing but true: America is only 4 presidents’ lives old — Dec. 3, 2018 via The Washington Post
Nov. 26 – Dec. 2, 2018
Michelle Obama gets real during her book tour, takes a shot at ‘leaning in’ amid rock star treatment during New York City appearance — Dec. 2, 2018 via CNBC
A day with a Chicago teen: ‘We’ve normalized gun violence’ — Dec. 1, 2018 via The Washington Post
In the Wake of #MeToo, These Women Have Taken Their Long-Overdue Seats in the Corner Offices Vacated By Men — Nov. 30, 2018 via Elle
Are Illinois residents aware of the significance of the Bicentennial? — Nov. 29, 2018 via WGN Radio
Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” — Nov. 28, 2018 via The New Yorker
One key scene helped cement ‘Hamilton’ as a Broadway legend. The team that crafted it explains how. — Nov. 27, 2018 via Washington Post
Yeah, I Know I’m Not For Everyone — Nov. 26, 2018 via The Cut
Nov. 19-25, 2018
I Hereby Confess Judgment — Nov. 23, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
CPS principal turns his PTSD diagnosis into teachable moment at Orozco school — Nov. 22, 2018 via The Chicago Sun-Times
Michelle Obama and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Power of Women’s Stories — Nov. 20, 2018 via The New York Times
Why Is It A Good Thing If You Don’t “Fit In” At Work? — Nov. 19, 2018 via The Huffington Post
Nov. 12-18, 2018
Is Business News Amoral, Immoral, Or Just Evil? — Nov. 18, 2018 via Canadaland
Warren Presses Consulting Firms to Disclose Saudi Arabia Work — Nov. 17, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Microsoft Ties Progress on Diversity to How Much It Pays Workers — Nov. 16, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Soaring Health-Care Costs Forced This Family to Choose Who Can Stay Insured — Nov. 15, 2018 via Bloomberg News
My Life on the Race Beat — Nov. 14, 2018 via Columbia Journalism Review
Diversity as a Second Job — Nov. 13, 2018 via Columbia Journalism Review
Nov. 5-11, 2018
‘Bad Blood’ Review: How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. — Nov. 8, 2018 via The New York Times
The Biggest Challenge for Hudson Bay’s New CEO? Deciding What Not to Do — Nov. 5, 2018 via Fortune
Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 2018
Electing a Record Number of Women to Congress Is Great. But It’s Not the Goal. — Nov. 4, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Oct. 22-28, 2018
‘He baits them’: Jon Stewart says Trump appeals to media’s ‘narcissism’ — Oct. 28, 2018 via The Washington Post
Retraction — Oct. 27, 2018 via This American Life
We Should Stop Saying “People of Color” When We Mean “Black People” — Oct. 26, 2018 via Medium
At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks — Oct. 25, 2018 via The Wall Street Journal
Why Has The New York City Subway Gone Off The Rails? — Oct. 24, 2018 via 60 Minutes
‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ Kids 20 Years Later — Oct. 23, 2018 via The New York Times
CEOs Give Employees Time Off to Vote in Hotly Contested Midterms — Oct. 22, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Oct. 15-21, 2018
McKinsey Is ‘Horrified’ That Saudi Arabia Report May Have Been Misused – Oct. 21, 2018 via Bloomberg News
AT&T Gives Indie Directors $1 Million to Reach a Wider Audience — Oct. 20, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘Hamilton’ in the U.S. vs. U.K. — Oct. 19, 2018 via The Late Night Show
BofA’s CEO Sees Diversity Meetings as ‘Huge Priority’ — Oct. 18, 2018 via Bloomberg News
We Should Stop Saying “People of Color” When We Mean “Black People” — Oct. 17, 2018 via Medium
The best Sears product came with a 126-year warranty — Oct. 16, 2018 via The Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Ancestry Was Never Really The Point — Oct. 15, 2018
Oct. 8-14, 2018
Ryan Coogler Signs On to Write and Direct ‘Black Panther’ Sequel — Oct. 11, 2018 via The Hollywood Reporter
Rosenwald Schools — Oct. 9, 2018 via National Trust for Historic Preservation
Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old’s Day in Immigration Court — Oct. 8, 2018 via The New York Times
Oct. 1-7, 2018
The Worst Job in American Politics — Oct. 5, 2018 via Politico Magazine
The Morality Wars — Oct. 3, 2018 via The New York Times Magazine
The Cleaning Lady — Oct. 1, 2018 via Inspiration Talks
Sept. 24 – 30, 2018
Jeff Flake Is Confronted on Video by Sexual Assault Survivors — Sept. 29, 2018 via The New York Times
What a Good Boy — Sept. 28, 2018 via New York Magazine
Kavanaugh Hearing — Sept. 27, 2018 via TicToc Podcast
Morgan Stanley Gathers Its Top Women to Plan Lifting Its Ranks — Sept. 25, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 17 – 23, 2018
What do we owe her now? — Sept. 23, 2018 via The Washington Post
Getting Rid of Swimsuits Was Just the Beginning — Sept. 22, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
America’s C-Suites Keep Getting Whiter (and More Male Too) — Sept. 21, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile — Sept. 20, 2018 via The New York Times
Rihanna: Growing up in Barbados, school was a grind. But I was lucky — Sept. 19, 2018 via The Guardian
Women in Silicon Valley Face a Massive Equity Gap — Sept. 18, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 10-16, 2018
How JPMorgan’s CFO became the top prospect to succeed Dimon — Sept. 16, 2018 via Reuters
Men Get the First, Last and Every Other Word on Earnings Calls — Sept. 15, 2018 via Bloomberg News
‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Breaks Silence on That Shelved Anti-Trump Episode, His ABC Exit and “Unapologetic” Netflix Plan — Sept. 14, 2018 via The Hollywood Reporter
Serena Williams Penalized and the Game That Can’t Be Won (Yet) — Sept. 13, 2018 via The Cut
Jon Stewart’s 9/11 Reflection — Sept. 12, 2018 via Comedy Central
PwC Chairman Encourages Talks on Race After Dallas Shooting — Sept. 11, 2018 via Bloomberg News
John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Become Newest EGOTs With Emmy Win — Sept. 10, 2018 via Variety
Sept. 3-9, 2018
CBS’s Moonves Toppled by Harassment Cases, Redstone Clash — Sept. 9, 2018 via Bloomberg News
The Way We Live Now — Sept. 8, 2018 via The New York Times
The Perfectionist: Mac Miller is finally making the music he’s always wanted to make — Sept. 6, 2018 via Vulture
The Inner-Ring Suburbs Are Withering. Why Not Just Merge Them with Chicago? — Sept. 5, 2018 via Chicago Magazine
Viola Davis Knows What’s Wrong With Hollywood… and How to Fix It — Sept. 4, 2018 via Variety
Aug. 27 – Sept. 2, 2018
The Puberty Book Embraced By Preteens, Parents, and Sex Educators Alike — Aug. 31, 2018 via The Atlantic
General Mills Adds More Leave for Moms and Other Parents — Aug. 29, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Aug. 20-26, 2018
How the BBC Women Are Working Toward Equal Pay — Aug. 25, 2018 via The New Yorker
Citigroup Has a Three-Year Plan to Reverse Its Falling Diversity — Aug. 24, 2018 via Bloomberg News
When Aretha Franklin Brought Down the House at the Kennedy Center — Aug. 23, 2018 via The New York Times
How a Woman Disappears from the History Books — Aug. 22, 2018 via Jezebel
The Way We Live Now — Aug. 21, 2018 via The New York Times
Catalyst Taps Former Silicon Valley Exec to Boost Women at Work — Aug. 20, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Aug. 13 – 19, 2018
Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? — Aug. 19, 2018 via The New York Times
The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery — Aug. 18, 2018 via Marketplace
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to Break Ground, If Not Box-Office Records — Aug. 17, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Many of the Best Wall Street Jobs for Women Aren’t on Wall Street — Aug. 16, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Why a Top Singapore Executive Fired Himself — Aug. 15, 2018 via Bloomberg News
What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be A Reality — Aug. 14, 2018 via The Huffington Post
Business Book of the Year 2018 – the longlist — Aug. 13, 2018 via FT
Aug. 6 – 12, 2018
Lives lost: These are the victims of Chicago’s bloodiest weekend of 2018 — Aug. 12, 2018 via Chicago Sun-Times
The World of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is as Crazy in Real Life — Aug. 11, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
How do you love a city as violent and broken as Chicago? — Aug. 10, 2018 via Chicago Tribune
Black Women’s Top Jobs Pay Half What White Women’s Do — Aug. 9, 2018 via Bloomberg News
USC names retired aerospace executive Wanda Austin as acting president, announces Nikias departure — Aug. 8, 2018 via The Los Angeles Times
In less than 7 hours, 41 shot, 5 killed as violence rips Chicago — Aug. 7, 2018 via Chicago Tribune
Black Films Should Get More Exposure Overseas, Boots Riley Says — Aug. 6, 2018 via Bloomberg News
July 30 – Aug. 5, 2018
Things millennials love about the library — Aug. 5, 2018 via Marketplace
Wall Street Claims Success on Diversity — At Least With Interns — Aug. 3, 2018 via Bloomberg News
A fond farewell to MoviePass, the only good thing about 2018 — Aug. 2, 2018 via The Los Angeles Times
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions — July 30, 2018 via The Daily Beast
July 23-29, 2018
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct — July 29, 2018 via The New Yorker
How To Find Out If ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Programs Really Empower Women — July 28, 2018 via NPR
A Major Bank Slipped Up And Showed Why Women Rarely File Sex Discrimination Cases — July 27, 2018 via HuffPost
Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment — July 26, 2018 via The New Yorker
Last black-owned bank in Chicago to change name — July 25, 2018 via The Chicago Tribune
The Black Girl Looks at Other Black Girls: On “This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins — July 24, 2018 via LA Review of Books
July 16-22, 2018
Sandra Oh’s Emmy nomination represents a new wave in Hollywood — July 24, 2018 via CNN
Comedian Forcing Standup to Confront the #MeToo Era — July 21, 2018 via The New Yorker
Lawsuit claims ‘S-Town’ exploited John B. McLemore — July 20, 2018 via AL.com
Married Couples Don’t Want to Admit When Wives Outearn Husbands — July 19, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Stand-up Tragedy — July 18, 2018 via Slate
Why trans actors should be cast in trans roles — July 17, 2018 via Chicago Tribune
Contoured, Highlighted and Bronzed: The Business of Makeup — July 16, 2018 via 1A
July 9-15, 2018
The life and death of ‘cocaine godmother’ Griselda Blanco — July 15, 2018 via McClatchy
In The Dark — July 14, 2018 via APM Reports
The Mississippi Man Tried Six Times for the Same Crime — July 13, 2018 via The New York Times
Hip-Hop Is Evolving. Just Ask Its Superstars. — July 12, 2018 via The New York Times
The Extinction of the Middle Child — July 11, 2018 via The Cut
How calls for civility are hurting tech companies — July 10, 2018 via Medium
How ‘A Different World’ Survived the Downfall of Bill Cosby — July 9, 2018 via The New York Times
July 2 – 8, 2018
Miss America Organization Split by #MeToo Era Swimsuit Decision — July 8, 2018 via Wall Street Journal
How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’ — July 5, 2018 via NPR
It’s Time to Stop Calling It ‘The Great Migration’ — July 4, 2018 via City Lab
What Kennedy’s Absence Means for Civil Rights — July 2, 2018 via The Atlantic
June 25 – July 1, 2018
America after Anthony Kennedy — July 1, 2018 via Vox
The Gospel According to Kendrick Lamar — June 30, 2018 via Vanity Fair
What the 1990s Got Wrong — June 29, 2018 The New Republic
She Knows How to Make an Exit. You’re Reading It. — June 28, 2018 via The New York Times
Junot Diaz and the Problem of the Male Self-Pardon — June 27, 2018 via Slate
Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate — heroism in these dark days — June 26, 2018 via The Guardian
The Deep Consistency of the Trump Administration — June 25, 2018 via The Atlantic
June 18-24, 2018
Saudi women in driver’s seat as longstanding ban is lifted — June 24, 2018 via the Associated Press
The Economics of Disability — June 23, 2018 via Marketplace Weekend
Against backdrop of Confederate memorial on South Side, tributes to black women — June 21, 2018 via Chicago Sun-Times
How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story — June 20, 2018 via The Village Voice
The End of Civil Rights — June 18, 2018 via The Atlantic
June 11-17, 2018
How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany? — June 14, 2018 via The New York Times
Gayle King Thinks #MeToo Needs Due Process — June 13, 2018 via The New York Times
My Suicide Week — June 12, 2018 via HuffPost
You’re probably not quoting enough women. Let us help you. — June 11, 2018 via Columbia Journalism Review
June 4-10, 2018
Social Media Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention — June 10, 2018 via TEAM UP
Can journalists prevent suicide clusters? — June 9, 2018 via Poynter
‘Very Lonely.’ The Unsettling Hum of Silicon Valley’s Failure to Hire More Black Workers — June 8, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Just Say It’s Racist — June 5, 2018 via The Atlantic
Germany’s Big Pay-Gap Problem — June 4, 2018 via Bloomberg News
May 28 – June 3, 2018
Banking Black — June 1, 2018 via The New Republic
What Happens When a Journalist Comes Back From the Dead — May 31, 2018 via The New York Times
Zachary “ZackTV” Stoner — May 30, 2018 via CPJ
May 21-27, 2018
The North’s Jim Crow — May 27, 2018 via The New York Times
‘Enemies in Love’ Author Says We Should Always Be Excited By History — May 22, 2018 via Bloomberg TV
For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It. — May 21, 2018 via National Geographic
May 14-20, 2018
How The Times Gave ‘Gay’ Its Own Voice (Again) — May 17, 2018 via The New York Times
The History of White Power — May 16, 2018 via The New York Times
Oliver Sipple — May 15, 2018 via WNYC
The fabulist who changed journalism — May 14, 2018 via Columbia Journalism Review
May 7 -13, 2018
Men Cry Discrimination in Legal Attack on Women’s Organizations — May 13, 2018 via Bloomberg News
How Anna Wintour Orchestrated Marchesa’s Post-Weinstein Comeback — May 12, 2018 via The Cut
The Carnage and Chaos of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” — May 11, 2018 via The New Yorker
“This Is America” and Atlanta Secure Donald Glover’s Legacy — May 10, 2018 via Slate
How Companies Use Math to Make the Gender Pay Gap Vanish — May 9, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Chelsea Clinton Says She’s Not Running for Office But You Should — May 8, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse — May 7, 2018 via The New Yorker
April 30 – May 6, 2018
Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, Discusses Career Platforms — May, 6, 2018 via Bloomberg News
The Race Beat, Revisited — May 2, 2018 via Neiman Reports
The Pain We Still Need to Feel — May 1, 2018 via Slate
April 23-29, 2018
Gertrude Jeannette, Actor, Director and Cabdriver, Dies at 103 — April 27, 2018 via The New York Times
Coming Soon: The Pay Check — April 26, 2018 via iTunes
For family of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, hopes that renewed interest translates into a monument — April 23, 2018 via Chicago Tribune
April 16-22, 2018
The Ghost of Big Freedia — April 22, 2018 via Noisey
Dads Say They Deserve Parental Leave But Only in Theory — April 21, 2018 via Bloomberg News
McDonald’s May Gain Fresh Hangout Status as Starbucks Rocked — April 20, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Ernst & Young Accused of Failing to Act on Groping Complaint — April 19, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Joy Reid Is Quietly, Steadily, Stealthily Changing the Game for Women on TV — April 18, 2018 via Elle
As One: Making the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Yearbook — April 17, 2018 via New York Magazine
A Most America Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof — April 16, 2018 via GQ
April 9-15, 2018
In Conversation with the Guy Behind the Internet’s Favourite Celebrity Interviews — April 12, 2018 via Noisey
‘The time for talking is over’ — April 10, 2018 via SB Nation
April 2-8, 2018
‘Held hostage’: Sinclair Media Company employees signed rare contract clause — April 7, 2018 via CBC Network
March 26 – April 1, 2018
Chance the Rapper Calls Heineken Light’s ‘Sometimes Lighter Is Better’ Ads Racist — March 27, 2018
March 19-25, 2018
Classroom Skeleton: Whose Bones Are These? — March 21, 2018 via NPR
Former Tronc Chairman and Investor Michael Ferro Accused of Inappropriate Advances by Two Women — March 20, 2018 via Fortune
The Mississippi Delta Chinese: An Audiovisual Narrative — March 19, 2018 via The New York Times
March 12-18, 2018
Google Is Trying To Hard (or Not Hard Enough) To Diversify — March 17, 2018 via The New York Times
John Skipper Details His ESPN Exit and a Cocaine Extortion Plot — March 16, 2018 via The Hollywood Reporter
Frances McDormand’s Diversity Dream for Hollywood Faces Hurdles — March 15, 2018 via Bloomberg Pursuits
In China, ‘Black Panther’ is a movie about America — March 13, 2018 via The Outline
‘Where is Ivanka?’ First daughter seeks control as dual White House aide — March 12, 2018 via The Washington Post
“Jane the Virgin” Is Not A Guilty Pleasure — March 11, 2018 via New York Magazine
March 4-11, 2018
After Five Years of Leaning In, Everything and Northing Changed — March 10, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Overlooked — March 9, 2018 via The New York Times
Rethinking Work-Life Balance for Women of Color — March 8, 2018 via Slate
Oscars Audience Drops to Lowest Ever in Latest Blow to Live TV — March 7, 2018 via Bloomberg News
A ‘Bright Light’ Dimmed in the Shadows of Homelessness — March 6, 2018 via The New York Times
David Hogg is Mad As Hell — March 5, 2018 via The Outline
Women behind ‘inclusion rider’ explains Frances McDormand’s Oscar speech — March 4, 2018 via The Guardian
Feb. 26 – March 3, 2018
We Got Rid of Some Bad Men. Now Let’s get Rid of Bad Movies. — March 3, 2018 via The New York Times
How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled — Feb. 28, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Sallie Krawcheck Blasts Morgan Stanley for Lack of Promotions to Women — Feb. 27, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 19-25, 2018
Race, Barriers and Battling Nerves: A Candid Conversation With Oscar’s Only 4 African-American Directing Nominees in 90 Years — Feb. 23, 2018 via The Hollywood Reporter
‘Black Panther’ Reveals Black Audiences’ Box Office Superpower — Feb. 22, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Wrong Answer — Feb. 21, 2018 via New York Magazine
Feb. 12-18, 2018
Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America — Feb. 12, 2018 via The New York Times
Women at Walmart Becoming Scarcer Despite C-Suite Promotions — Feb. 12, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 5 – 11, 2018
Jennie Willoughby: ‘President Trump Will Not Diminish My Truth’ — Feb. 11, 2018 via Time
Has Anyone Seen the President? — Feb. 10, 2018 via Bloomberg View
Do As I Say, Not As I Do — Feb. 6, 2018 via New York Magazine
He helped Halle Berry and Taraji Henson to stardom. Now 9 minority women are accusing him of sexual harassment. — Feb. 5, 2017 via Washington Post
Women Once Ruled Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia? — Feb. 4, 2018 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Jan. 28 – Feb. 4, 2018
A Bitcoin Conference Rented a Miami Strip Club — And Regretted It — Feb. 3, 2018 via Bloomberg News
28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month — Feb. 2, 2018 via The New York Times
Kenneth Chenault’s AmEx Departure Puts Number of Black CEOs Near 17-Year Low — Feb. 1, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Starbucks Follows New Standard Set by Wal-Mart on Paid Leave — Jan. 28, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 22-27, 2018
Dozens of People Recount Pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Las Vegas Mogul Steve Wynn — Jan. 27, 2018 via The Wall Street Journal
Davos Takes on Sexual Harassment for the First Time — Jan. 26, 2018 via Bloomberg News
BofA Plans to Restrict Pay Conversations During Job Interviews — Jan. 25, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Tammy Duckworth is pregnant; will be 1st senator to give birth — Jan. 23, 2018 via Chicago Sun-Times
Jan. 15 – 21, 2018
Citigroup’s Promise to Close the Pay Gap Will Only Go So Far — Jan. 21, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Is ‘Black Panther’ the Superhero Lexus Needs? — Jan. 20, 2018 via Bloomberg News
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Cornel West’s One-Sided War — Jan. 19, 2018 via The Atlantic
The Root’s Danielle Belton: ‘We’re going to fully embrace being black’ — Jan. 18, 2018 via The Root
Charles King Is Changing the Color of Hollywood — And Making Money Doing It — Jan. 16, 2018 via Bloomberg Pursuits
50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968 — Jan. 15, 2017 via The New York Times
Jan. 8 – 14, 2018
Why I Can’t Quit You, Hoops — Jan. 14, 2017 via The New York Times
Back Under Black Ownership and Run by Women, Essence Forges On — Jan. 13, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Aaron Maybin’s fight for Baltimore schools won’t end with turning the heat back on — Jan. 12, 2017 via SB Nation
Why Wall Street Hasn’t Had a #MeToo Moment Yet — Jan. 11, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Woke politics and gender-fluid bathrooms: Why ‘Grown-ish’ isn’t this generation’s ‘A Different World’ —Jan. 10, 2017 via The Washington Post
Even Without a ‘Me Too’ Moment, Economics Faces a Gradual Reckoning — Jan. 8, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 1 – 7, 2018
Why Is Fixing Sexism Women’s Work? — Jan. 3, 2017 via The New York Times
My Times — Jan. 2, 2017 via The Atlantic
Powerful yet addicted to power: Why the New York Times is in the hot seat so often — Jan. 1, 2017 via The Washington Post
Dec. 25 – Dec. 31, 2017
The show was supposed to bring black and white students together. It almost tore them apart. — Dec. 30, 2017 via The Washington Post
Not fake news, just plain wrong: Top media corrections of 2017 — Dec. 28, 2017 via Poynter
How tough is it to change a culture of sexual harassment? Ask women at Ford. — Dec. 27, 2017 via The New York Times
Four things every California employer should do before Jan. 1 — Dec. 26, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Dec. 18-24, 2017
Her Father Died When She Was 20. A Week Later, She Learned She Was Part of His Second Family. — Dec. 24, 2017 via The Washingtonian
Gyms Ditch Machines to Make Space for Free Weights — Dec. 23, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
Bloomingdale’s Santa Detects Surge in Stressed-Out Adults — Dec. 22, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Jordan Peele’s X-Ray Vision — Dec. 21, 2017 via The New York Times Magazine
Use this calculator and see how the tax bill will affect your paycheck — Dec. 20, 2017 via CNN
‘Genius’ Grant Winner Hopes to Shed Light on Segregation in US — Dec. 19, 2017 via Chicago Tonight
Why everyone should read To Kill A Mockingbird — Dec. 18, 2017 via The Tab
Dec. 11-17, 2017
‘The demons are always a breath away’ — Dec. 17, 2017 via The Washington Post
Companies Hit by Sexual Misconduct Target the Dreaded Holiday Party — Dec. 16, 2017 via Bloomberg News
There Is No Escape From Politics — Dec. 15, 2017 via SB Nation
The 11-Year-Old Philanthropist Helps Girls Love the Skin They’re In — Dec. 14, 2017 via Bloomberg Pursuits
Harassment Politics Grip Washington and Spur Fear in Both Parties — Dec. 13, 2017 via Bloomberg Politics
NFL Harassment Suit Alleges Groping by Top Executive, Ex-Players — Dec. 11, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Times Square Subway Bomber Tells Police He’s a Follower of Islamic State — Dec. 11, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Dec. 4-10, 2017
The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her — Dec. 8, 2017 via The New York Times
Black Americans Cross Jobs Milestone, Though Victory Is Tenuous — Dec. 7, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Weinstein’s Complicity Machine — Dec. 6, 2017 via The New York Times
#MeToo Hits Home: John Hockenberry Accused of Harassment, Bullying — Dec. 5, 2017 via WNYC
Billy Bush, Active Bystander — Dec. 4, 2017 via The Atlantic
Nov. 28 – Dec. 3, 2017
Bias Found in Mutual-Fund Managers’ Promotions — Dec. 3, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
A Gringo’s Guide to Coco — Dec. 1, 2017 via Slate
The Most Expensive U.S. Hurricane Season Ever: By the Numbers — Nov. 29, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Coco dominates the weekend box office — Nov. 28, 2017 via The New York Times
Unilever Acquires U.S. Personal-Care Company Sundial Brands — Nov. 27, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 21-27, 2017
Coco is among Pixar’s best movie in years — Nov. 25, 2017 via The Atlantic
‘Nothing Against You’: For A Black Man Covering Race, the Story Is Never Far From Home — Nov. 24, 2017 via The New York Times
The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee – Now What? — Nov. 21, 2017 via The New York Times Magazine
The enduring whiteness of the American media — Nov. 22, 2017 via The Guardian
The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? — Nov. 21, 2017 via The New York Times Magazine
Nov. 13-20, 2017
Comedy Writers Defend Say-Anything Culture in Sensitive Times — Nov. 14, 2017 via Bloomberg Pursuits
A Year of Love and Struggle at a New High School — Nov. 13, 2017 via NPR Code Switch
Nov. 6-12, 2017
CBS Diversity Comedy Showcase Has Been a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Mess for Years, Participants Say — Nov. 12, 2017 via Vulture
Comedians Didn’t Need to Be Such Assholes About the Louis C.K. Rumors — Nov. 11, 2017 via Vice
Marijuana’s Female Pioneers Are Being Pushed Aside in Legal Weed Boom — Nov. 10, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway. — Nov. 9, 2017 via Politico Magazine
U.S. Labor Leaders Confront Sexual Harassment in Top Ranks — Nov. 8, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Female Employees Try Again for Sex-Bias Class Action — Nov. 7, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Ta-Nehisi Coates at Evanston Township — Nov. 6, 2017 via We Were Eight Years in Power Book Tour
Oct. 30 – Nov. 5, 2017
A Catfishing With A Happy Ending — Nov. 4, 2018 via The Atlantic
A Plan to Create Just Two Time Zones in the Continental United States — Nov. 3, 2017 via The Atlantic
DNAinfo and Gothamist Are Shut Down After Vote to Unionize — Nov. 2, 2017 via The New York Times
Awaiting Trump’s coal comeback, miners reject retraining — Nov. 1, 2017 via Reuters
Carly Fiorina Says She’s Experienced Sexual Harassment Both Business and Politics — Oct. 31, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Puerto Rico’s Governor Just Hit His Target for Restoring Power — Oct. 30, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Oct. 23-29, 2017
Same Lake, Unequal Rates — Oct. 29, 2017 via Chicago Tribune
There Are Currently Four Black CEOs in the Fortune 500 — Oct. 28, 2017 via The Atlantic
Jane Fonda: People Are Listening Now Because Weinstein Victims Are ‘Famous and White’ — Oct. 27, 2017 via The Huffington Post
American Airlines Leads U.S. Carriers in Passenger Complaints of Racism — Oct. 26, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Students flock to historically black colleges where they feel welcome — Oct. 25, 2017 via Marketplace
Black Executives Join Forces, Forming a PAC to Back Them Up — Oct. 24, 2017 via The New York Times
Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson said Trump stumbled recalling her husband’s name — Oct. 23, 2017 via The Washington Post
Oct. 16-22, 2017
The Newseum Is Increasingly Relevant, But Can It Survive? — Oct. 22, 2017 via The New York Times
‘Survival Mode’ Defines Puerto Rico One Month After Maria — Oct. 20, 2017 via Bloomberg News
The Opioid Addict on the Trading Floor — Oct. 19, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Oct. 9-15, 2017
She Met Her Prince (for Real!) at a D.C. Nightclub — Oct. 15, 2017 via The New York Times
Internet Mocks Donald Trump for Not Knowing He Is President of the U.S. Virgin Islands — Oct. 14, 2017 via Teen Vogue
Black Americans Twice As Likely as Whites to Default on Student Debt — Oct. 11, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Congrats, College Grads. Now, Good Luck Paying Off All Your Debt — Oct. 10, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Covering a country where race is everywhere — Oct. 9, 2017 via Columbia Journal Review
Oct. 2-8, 2017
Puerto Rico’s Tourism Workers Are Rushing to Fill Recovery Jobs — Oct. 8, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Welcome to Hostile Takeover High – Oct. 7, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Bank Behind Fearless Girl Statue Settles U.S. Gender Pay Dispute — Oct. 6, 2017 via Bloomberg News
A Trump Statue Could Be Coming to Puerto Rico — Oct. 5, 2017 via Bloomberg News
If Newtown Wasn’t Enough, Why Would Las Vegas Be Enough? — Oct. 4, 2017 via Esquire
Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started. — Oct. 3, 2017 via The Washington Post
Sept. 25 – Oct. 1, 2017
NFL Sponsors Walk Tightrope After Trump Sparks Social Firestorm — Sept. 29, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Trump turns sports into a political battleground with comments on Curry and NFL — Sept. 28, 2017 via The Washington Post
Whitley’s World: A Brief History of Bad and Boujee Black Girl Style — Sept. 27, 2017 via The Undefeated
How to Help Puerto Rico and Other Islands After Hurricane Maria — Sept. 26, 2017 via The New York Times
Sept. 18-24, 2017
With Power Out and Cell Service Down, Puerto Ricans Work to Connect Each Other in Maria’s Wake — Sept. 24, 2017 via BuzzFeed News
White people are really confident that things are getting better for black people — Sept. 23, 2017 via The Washington Post
Like Issa Rae, I’m Also ‘Rooting for Everybody Black’ — Sept. 22, 2017 via The New York Times
Maria Slams Storm-Ravaged Dominica en Route to Puerto Rico — Sept. 21, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Memphis Pushes To Level The Playing Field For Black Entrepreneurs — Sept. 20, 2017 via The Huffington Post
Starting School At The University That Enslaved Her Ancestors — Sept. 19, 2017 via NPR
PwC’s Non-White Workers Earn Less, Get Smaller Bonuses in the U.K. — Sept. 18, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Sept. 11-17, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street — Sept. 15, 2017 via The Atlantic
In Targeted Tampa Bay, the Realization of Irma Takes Hold — Sept. 14, 2017 via Bloomberg News
When Do You Move Prisoners Out of a Storm’s Path — Sept. 13, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Irma Leaves Virgin Islanders Torn Between Fight and Flight — Sept. 12, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Meet the people behind a growing NFL boycott — Sept. 11, 2017 via SB Nation
Sept. 5 – 10, 2017
Affirmative Action as Reparations — Sept. 10, 2017 via New Republic
The First White President — Sept. 9, 2017 via The Atlantic
The Resegregation of Jefferson County — Sept. 8, 2017 via The New York Times Magazine
Wealth Manager Urges Trump to Pardon Junk King Michael Milken — Sept. 7, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Trump’s Move to End DACA Condemned by Executives — Sept. 6, 2017 via Bloomberg News
The Wage Gap for Black Workers Is Growing — Sept. 5, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Aug. 30 – Sept. 4, 2017
Houston’s Historically Black Neighborhoods Are Struggling After The Storm — Sept. 4, 2017 via BuzzFeed News
To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now — Sept. 3, 2017 via The New York Times
The Best Era for Working Women Was 20 Years Ago — Sept. 2, 2017 via The New York Times
Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash — Sept. 1, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Mnuchin Doesn’t Endorse Placing Harriet Tubman on the New $20 Bill — Aug. 31, 2017 via The New York Times
Estee Lauder Sued for Discriminating Against New Fathers — Aug. 30, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Aug. 22-29, 2017
Young Women Are Losing Ground in U.S. Race for Equal Pay — Aug. 27, 2017 via Bloomberg News
After 56 years, Six Flags will no longer fly the Confederate flag over its theme parks — Aug. 26, 2017 via Washington Post
Hollywood Fails Latest Test of Diversity With Fall TV Lineup — Aug. 25, 2017 via Bloomberg
The New Off-Court Play for NBA Stars is Startup Equity — Aug. 24, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Young Women Are Losing Ground in U.S. Race for Equal Pay — Aug. 23, 2017 via Bloomberg News
On late-night TV, Trump’s no laughing matter anymore — Aug. 22, 2017 via CNN Money
Aug. 14-21, 2016
In New Political Status Quo, Big Business Bucks the Right — Aug. 21, 2017 via Bloomberg News
The 48 Frantic Hours Before CEOs Broke With Trump — Aug. 20, 2017 via Bloomberg News
CEOs, Consultants and Communists — Aug. 19, 2017 via Bloomberg View
USC Expands in a ‘Neglected’ Neighborhood, Promising Jobs and More — Aug. 18, 2017 via The New York Times
Intel’s Krzanich Decides Trump Abuse Outweighs Values of Ties – Aug. 17, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Trump Rips CEOs Quitting Panels as AFL-CIO Joins Defectors’ List — Aug. 16, 2017 via Bloomberg News
What the Google Controversy Misses: The Business Case for Diversity — Aug. 15, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
Aug. 7 – 13, 2017
Men Are Replacing Women as CEOs in a Step Backward on Diversity — Aug. 10, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Here’s How Jamie Dimon’s Black Diversity Claim Stacks Up — Aug. 9, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Fired Google Engineer Will Have a Tough Time Making Legal Case He’s a Victim — Aug. 8, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color — Aug. 7, 2017 via The Atlantic
July 31 – Aug. 6, 2017
Nightmare on Wall Street — Aug. 6, 2017 via Independent
The Executive Job That’s Like ‘Kissing a Porcupine’ — Aug. 5 2017 via Wall Street Journal
Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions — Aug. 4, 2017 via The New York Times
‘The moment when it really started to feel insane’: An oral history of the Scaramucci era — Aug. 3, 2017 via The Washington Post
Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap — Aug. 2, 2017 via Fortune
Details emerge in deal to bring 2028 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles — Aug. 1, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
July 24-30, 2017
Scaramucci learned his press tactics from Wall Street. They’ll only get uglier. — July 31, 2017 via The Washington Post
Why Is Wall Street losing black executives — July 30, 2017 via Marketplace
Hollywood Faces the Growing Box Office Power of Black Audiences — July 29, 2017 via Bloomberg
‘Girls Trip’ made more money in one weekend in the US than ‘Rough Night’ did in a month — July 28, 2017 via Mic
Let Black Kids Just Be Kids — July 27, 2017 via The New York Times
Donald Trump Is Not Invited to the Wedding — July 26, 2017 via New York Magazine
Inside the Fight to Design the Perfect Sports Bra — July 25, 2017 via Bloomberg
Shooting ‘clearly an improper use of deadly force,’ says attorney for Justine Damond’s family – July 24, 2017 via The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
July 17-23, 2017
USC received more than a year of questions about former medical school dean’s conduct before scandal broke — July 23, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
The Sinclair Revolution Will Be Televised. It’ll Just Have Low Production Values. – July 21, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Historically Black Colleges Try to Catch Up as Rich Schools Get Richer — July 20, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Deloitte Thinks Diversity Groups Are Passe — July 19, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
President Trump Made a Promise to Black Colleges. It Hasn’t Happened. — July 20, 2017 via The Chronicle of Higher Ed
An overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of a USC med school dean —July 19, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Welcome to Manhood, Gillette Told the 50-Year-Old Woman — July 18, 2017 via The New York Times
Stress and Poverty May Explain High Rates of Dementia in African-Americans — July 17, 2017 via NPR
July 10-16, 2017
Real Men Might Get Made Fun Of — July 16, 2017 via The New York Times
‘Aladdin’: Disney Struggles to Find Stars for Its Live-Action Movie — July 15, 2017 via The Hollywood Reporter
Angela Merkel’s Advice to a British Expat: Get a German Passport — July 14, 2017 via Bloomberg News
MTV News, Chance the Rapper, And A Defense of Negative Criticism — July 13, 2017 via The New Yorker
What only Trump understands: Hillary Clinton won the election — July 12, 2017 via The Washington Post
Passive Investors Are The New Shareholder Activists — July 11, 2017 via Ritzholtz
Eisendrath confirms cash for Sun-Times deal: ‘I’m truly grateful for everybody’ — July 10, 2017 via Robert Feder
July 3 – 9, 2017
‘Brave’ Women in Tech Can’t Weed Out Misconduct Alone — July 7, 2017 via Bloomberg Gadfly
White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump — July 6, 2017 via The Washington Post
The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump — July 5, 2017 via The New Yorker
The Wire and the Art of Credit Sequence — July 3, 2017 via Slant
June 26- July 2, 2017
How Can the U.S. Get More Women in the Workforce? Ask Canada — July 2, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
‘Love Thy Neighbor’ — July 1, 2017 via The Washington Post
Being Pretty Is a Privilege and It’s Time to Acknowledge It — June 28, 2017 via Allure
June 19-25, 2017
Making Oprah — June 24, 2017 via WBEZ
Talking About Race at Work Might Not Be The Worst Idea After All — June 23, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Title Fight — June 22, 2017 via SB Nation
#EbonyOwes shows publication took advantage of its prestige, freelancers — June 21, 2017 via PJ Star
Video footage shows Minn. traffic stop that ended with Philando Castile — June 20, 2017 via The Washington Post
The Not-So-Bitter Rivalry of Dean Baquet and Marty Barton — June 19, 2017 via via Politico
June 12-18, 2017
Coal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — June 18, 2017 via HBO
For Diamond Reynolds, trying to move past 10 tragic minutes of video — June 17, 2017 via Washington Post
Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion — June 16, 2017 via Bloomberg
A Female CEO of a Big Bank? The Odds Are Now Greater Than Zero — June 15, 2017 via Bloomberg
Uber CEO to Take Leave, Have Diminished Role After Scandal — June 13, 2017 via Bloomberg
Embrace Diversity…Of Clients and Advisers — June 12, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
June 5-11, 2017
What Has Slack Done to the Office — June 11, 2017 via New York Magazine
Kellyanne Conway wants the media to cover a President Trump that may not exist — June 5, 2017 via The Washington Post
May 29 – June 4, 2017
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Paris Agreement — June 4, 2017 via HBO
15 Years Later, 2017 Needs Its Own ‘The Wire’ — June 2, 2017 via Variety
‘Underground’ Cancelled After 2 Seasons at WGN Americas — May 30, 2017 via Variety
May 22-28, 2017
5 people, 3 generations of 1 suburban family, all 2017 graduates – May 28, 2017 via Chicago Sun-Times
In Chicago, an undertaker tries to save teens from the streets – and is burying those he can’t — May 27, 2017 via Yahoo News
Hillary Clinton Is Furious. And Resigned. And Funny. And Worried. – May 26, 2017 via New York Magazine
Here’s why so much news seems to break in the evening — May 25, 2017 via Marketplace
Australia’s ‘Stolen Generation’ Tell Their Stories — May 24, 2017 via The New York Times
Why the Teen Summer Job is Disappearing — May 23, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
May 15-21, 2017
Stupid Watergate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — May 21, 2017 via HBO
Trump’s Classified Disclosure Is Shocking But Legal — May 20, 2017 via Bloomberg View
Miley Cyrus Faces Rightful Backlash in Light of Past Cultural Appropriation — May 19, 2017 via Teen Vogue
Trump’s White House Defies Media Superlatives — May 18, 2017 via The Washington Post
Jimmy Fallon Was On Top of The World. Then Trump Came. — May 17, 2017 via The New York Times
My Family’s Slave — May 16, 2017 via The Atlantic
May 7-14, 2017
The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth — May 12, 2017 via ProPublica
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants to Challenge Your Premise — May 9, 2017 via Marketplace
John Oliver pleads with viewers to revive net neutrality fight — May 8, 2017 via The Verge
The Empathy Of “S-Town” Doesn’t Extend to Black People — May 7, 2017 via BuzzFeed
May 1-6, 2017
Buffett Laments ‘Roadkill’ Who Lose Jobs, Say U.S. Must Help — May 6, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Where Have All The Black Businesses Gone? — May 5, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Don’t Make Housing for the Poor Too Cozy, Carson Warns — May 4, 2017 via The New York Times
Puerto Rico Files for Historic $70 Billion Debt Restructuring — May 3, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ Is Suddenly Everywhere — May 2, 2017 via The Atlantic
Trump Weighs Breaking Up Wall Street Banks, Raising Gas Tax — May 1, 2017 via Bloomberg News
April 25-30, 2017
‘Burn, Baby, Burn’: What I saw as a black journalist 25 years ago – April 30, 2017 via The Los Angeles Time
Kevin Coval on Daily Show — April 29, 2017 via The Daily Show
Prisonville in Southern Texas Could Soon Be Back in Business — April 28, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Michael Bloomberg’s Net Worth Is $47B, How Will He Use It? — April 27, 2017 via 60 Minutes
How Newt Gingrich became the go-to Trump interview for every story about the Trump White House – April 26, 2017 via The Washington Post
‘If You Take Out Kenan Thompson, the Studio Will Explore’ — April 25, 2017 via HuffPost
April 17-24, 2017
Transcript of AP Interview with Trump — April 24, 2017 via Associated Press
When Passover Is About American Slavery – April 21, 2017 via The Atlantic
An Idaho sheriff’s daunting battle to investigate when children of a faith-healing sect die — April 20, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
In Kiron, Iowa, pop. 229, the meaning of life, a death and another cup of coffee — April 19, 2017 via The Washington Post
How The New York Times decides which stories to link to (and which ones to match) — April 18, 2017 via Poynter
Easter Sunday Is Basically The Beyonce of Sundays So Be Prepared — April 17, 2017 via Very Smart Brothas
April 10-16, 2017
Wrongfully convicted men go from serving time to serving others — April 16, 2017 via ABC News
The SVU Detectives Ranked From Best to Worst — April 15, 2017 via Betches
Trump administration moving quickly to build nationwide deportation force — April 14, 2017 via The Washington Post
Tavon Tanner, a bullet, and what happened on the streets of Chicago — April 10, 2017 via Chicago Tribune
April 3 – 9, 2017
She was pregnant and broke. She signed up for Uber – and fell into debt — April 9, 2017 via The Washington Post
No Post-High School Plans? Chicago Doesn’t Think You Should Graduate — April 7, 2017 via Bloomberg News
March 27 – April 2, 2017
In Ohio County that Backed Trump, Word of Housing Stirs Fear — April 2, 2017 via The New York Times
For April Ryan, Clashes With the White House Bring a New Kind of Prominence — March 31, 2017 via The New York Times
Sessions Threatens to Cut Police Money for Sanctuary Cities — March 27, 2017 via Bloomberg Politics
March 20-26, 2017
Allowing Obamacare to collapse isn’t the political trump card the president assumes — March 26, 2017 via The Washington Post
Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs — March 25, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
Georgia non-profit says it unwittingly gave $25,000 to white nationalist Richard Spencer — March 24, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Virgin Islands Joins States in Protesting Repeal of Obamacare — March 23, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Puerto Rico Governor Is Set to Make the Case for Revising Utility Debt Deal — March 22, 2017 via Bloomberg News
John Herbers, Who Vividly Covered the Civil Rights Era for The Times, Dies at 93 — March 21, 2017 via The New York Times
Federal Budget: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — March 20, 2017 via HBO
March 13-19, 2017
Jimmy Breslin, Legendary New York City Newspaper Columnist, Dead at 88 — March 19, 2017 via The New York Times
A year later, HB2 has cost North Carolina millions. How worse could it get? — March 18, 2017 via Charlotte Observers
Whom to trust when it comes to health-care reform? Trump supporters put their faith in him. — March 17, 2017 via The Washington Post
Rachel Maddow Lands a Scoop, Then Makes Viewers Wait — March 16, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Emanuel’s short-term budget solutions will cost $1 billion in interest — March 15, 2017 via Bloomberg News
An Ohio County Is About to Foreclose on a $5 Million Basket — March 14, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Chance the Rapper Talks His Grammy Wins, His Daughter, and Upcoming Album — March 13, 2017 via Complex
March 6-12, 2017
In a Place of Need, An Unhealthy Contradiction — March 12, 2017 via The Washington Post
During his political rise, Stephen K. Bannon was a man with no fixed address — March 11, 2017 via The Washington Post
Department of Justification — March 8, 2017 via The New York Times
Putin destroyed Russia’s independent press. Trump seems to want to do the same — March 7, 2017 via The Washington Post
In Conversation with David Letterman — March 6, 2017 via Vulture
Feb. 26-March 5, 2017
Michelle Obama surprises D.C. students, talks struggles and life goals for two hours — March 5, 2017 via The Washington Post
Chance the Rapper to Rauner: ‘Take our kids off the table’ — March 3, 2017 via The Chicago Sun-Times
Kansas, facing a huge budget deficit, wonders what to do next. Consensus is elusive — March 2, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Prison Bonds Are Going Through the Roof Thanks to Trump’s Immigration Policy — March 1, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
Developers of affordable housing in California are on pins and needles over Trump’s tax plan — Feb. 28, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Bank of America to Trump: Taxing Munis Won’t Raise Very Much – Feb. 27, 2017 via Bloomberg News
If the L.A. Times hadn’t broken an embargo in 1940, the Oscars envelope mix-up might not have happened — Feb. 26, 2017 via The Los Angeles Times
Feb. 19-25, 2017
For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemmings. — Feb. 21, 2017 via The Washington Post
Checking in on Ferguson’s economy after Michael Brown — Feb. 20, 2017 via Marketplace
Muni-Bond Buyers Shouldn’t Expect Financial Reports Anytime Soon — Feb. 19, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Feb. 12-18, 2017
Sanctuary Cities May Not See Borrowing Hit From Trump Order — Feb. 18, 2017 via The Wall Street Journal
Beyond ‘Hidden Figures’: Nurturing New Black and Latino Math Whizzes — Feb. 17, 2017 via The New York Times
No Labels: Chance the Rapper and Jimmy Butler — Feb. 16, 2017 via The Undefeated
10 Things the World Doesn’t Know About Chance — Feb. 15, 2017 via Sports Mockery
The History of Black History Month — Feb. 14, 2017 via Ebony
How Anna Nicole Smith Became America’s Punchline — Feb. 13, 2017 via BuzzFeed
When ‘Good Hair’ Hurts — Feb. 12, 2017 via The Atlantic
Feb. 5-11, 2017
“Black People Would Be Wealthy If We Stopped Buying Jordans And Weave” Has Always Been And Will Always Be Bullshit — Feb. 11, 2017 via Very Smart Brothas
Puerto Rico Collapse Over Bond-Market Pall Over Pacific Islands — Feb. 10, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Aretha Franklin Announces Her Retirement — Feb. 9, 2017 via The Guardian
The Big Reason Whites Are Richer Than Blacks in America — Feb. 8, 2017 via Bloomberg News
A Reporter Explains What Out-Of-Towners Keep Getting Wrong About Chicago Violence — Feb. 7, 2017 via Chicagoist
Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2017
What’s Ahead for Munis? Forecasters Who Got It Right Make Calls — Feb. 1, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Jan. 23-29, 2017
This Is What It’s Like to Come to the United States as a Refugee — Jan. 29, 2017 via The Atlantic
Donald Trump’s situation isn’t new — presidential conflicts of interest date back to George Washington — Jan. 28, 2017 via Marketplace
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case — Jan. 27, 2017 via Vanity Fair
Wilbur Ross and the Era of Billionaire Rule — Jan. 26, 2017 via Bloomberg Businessweek
U Up? — Jan. 25, 2017 via The New Yorker
Who Didn’t Go To The Women’s March Matters More Than Who Did — Jan. 24, 2017 via The New York Times
What the Equinox CEO knew about lifestyle branding before the rest of us — Jan. 23, 2017 via Marketplace
Jan. 16 -22, 2017
A Scene from the D.C. Women’s March — Jan. 21, 2017 via New York Magazine
American Carnage: The Trump Era Begins — Jan. 20, 2017 via The Atlantic
Odd Lots: How The Big Bull Market in Bond Could Come Crashing Down — Jan. 19, 2017 via Bloomberg News
The View From Room 205 — Jan. 18, 2017 via WBEZ
Why’s This So Good? Ta-Nehisi Coates and “My President Was Black” — Jan. 17, 2017 via Nieman Storyboard
Citizens Say Goodbye to First Lady Michelle Obama — Jan. 16, 2017 via The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Jan. 9 – 15, 2017
A hellscape of lies and distorted reality awaits journalists covering President Trump — Jan. 15, 2017 via The Washington Post
Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race — Jan. 14, 2017 via The New York Times
What the Investigation Into the Chicago Police Department Found — Jan. 13, 2017 via The Atlantic
ABC, Home of ‘Black-ish,’ Says Diversity Includes Trump Backers — Jan. 12, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Obama’s Farewell Address in Chicago — Jan. 11, 2017 via The White House
Alabama Trounces Clemson And Everybody Else in the College Football Money Game — Jan. 10, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Viola Davis’ Call to Adventure — Jan. 9, 2017 via The New Yorker
Jan. 2 – 8, 2017
How a week of Trump tweets stoked anxiety, moved markets and altered plans — Jan. 8, 2017 via The Washington Post
I Shouldn’t Have To Learn Black History From A Movie — Jan. 6, 2017 via The Huffington Post
Where Is America’s Heartland? — Jan. 4, 2017 via Bloomberg News
The Unraveling of College Football Starts With All Those Empty Stadiums — Jan. 3, 2017 via Bloomberg News
Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the 60s — Jan. 2, 2017 via The New York Times
Dec. 26, 2016 – Jan. 1, 2017
Should We All Just Stop Calling 2016 ‘The Worst’? — Dec. 28, 2016 via NPR
Obama’s exit interview: I could’ve won again — Dec. 26, 2016 via CNN
Dec. 19-25, 2016
Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block — Dec. 25, 2016 via The New York Times
Bored, Broke and Armed: Clues to Chicago’s Gang Violence — Dec. 24, 2016 via The New York Times
Who Didn’t Lose 2016 — Dec. 23, 2016 via Vulture
Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York Life’s Complicated Past — Dec. 22, 2016 via The New York Times
Watch Chance the Rapper’s Retro Holiday Tribute to President Obama On ‘SNL’ — Dec. 21, 2016 via DNAinfo Chicago
How newsrooms can stop being so white — Dec. 20, 2016 via CNN Money
Chance the Rapper: The Artist of the Year — Dec. 19, 2016 via MTV News
Dec. 12-18, 2016
Preaching the Gospel of Diversity, but Not Following It — Dec. 18, 2016 via The New York Times
The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America — Dec. 17, 2016 via The Atlantic
Now you can fact-check Trump’s tweets – in the tweets themselves — Dec. 16, 2016 via The Washington Post
Wells Fargo Tie-Up That Scarred Prudential Generated $4 Million — Dec. 15, 2016 via Bloomberg
‘Collateral Beauty’ Is a Misguided Astonishment of Hollywood Therapy — Dec. 14, 2016 via The Village Voice
My President Was Black — Dec. 13, 2016 via The Atlantic
Dec. 5-11, 2016
Rex Tillerson, From a Corporate Oil Sovereign To The State Department — Dec. 11, 2016 via The New Yorker
Racism with No Racists — Dec. 10, 2016 via Tressiemc
‘Evil, evil, evil as can be’: Emotional testimony as Dylann Roof trial begins — Dec. 7, 2016 via The Washington Post
The post-truth world of Donald Trump is scarier than you thought — Dec. 6, 2016 via The Washington Post
Mall of America welcomes its first black Santa — Dec. 5, 2016 via Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Nov. 28 – Dec. 4, 2016
Tracking Trump’s Web of Conflicts — Dec. 4, 2016 via Bloomberg News
‘Insecure’ is actually very secure in itself — and secure at HBO —Dec. 3, 2016 via The Undefeated
Trump voter lost home, blames incoming Treasury secretary — Dec. 2, 2016 via the Associated Press
Wall Street Wins Again As Trump Picks Bankers, Billionaires — Dec. 1, 2016 via Bloomberg News
A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over — Nov. 28, 2016 via The New York Times
The US government is already quietly backing out of its promise to phase out private prisons — Nov. 27, 2016 via Quartz
Nov. 21-27, 2016
I went on CNN. Little did I know I’d be mistaken as an alt-right leader. — Nov. 27, 2016 via The Boston Globe
No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS — Nov. 26, 2016 Bloomberg News
Death of a Young Black Journalist — Nov. 25, 2016 via The New Yorker
16 Classic Thanksgiving Episodes of TV Shows That Aren’t “Friends” — Nov. 24, 2016 via BuzzFeed
U.S. Risks ‘Day of Reckoning’ on Stronger Dollar, Memani Says — Nov. 23, 2016 via Bloomberg News
What TV journalists did wrong — and The New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump — Nov. 22, 2016 via The Washington Post
Kanye West Seen Surrendering $30 Million With Abrupt End to Tour — Nov. 21, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Nov. 14 – 20, 2016
California Democrats Are Ready for Political War — Nov. 20, 2016 via Bloomberg News
The Conflicts in Ivanka’s ’60 Minutes’ Look — Nov. 19, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Chicago’s history as a sanctuary city started in 1985 — Nov. 17, 2016 via Chicago Sun-Times
This Man Is The Most Dangerous Political Operative — Nov. 16, 2016 via Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Private Prison Stocks Are Surging After Trump’s Win — Nov. 15, 2016 via Bloomberg News
This Is Who We Are — Nov. 14, 2016 via The Atlantic
Nov. 7 – 13, 2016
Dave Chappelle tackles Donald Trump in hilarious and heartfelt ‘SNL’ monologue — Nov. 13, 2016 via Mashable
Can Trump Save Their Jobs? They’re Counting on It — Nov. 12, 2016 via The New York Times
Buffett Faults Trump’s Trade View, Says Markets Will Still Thrive — Nov. 11, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Trying to Make Sense — Nov. 10, 2016 via Show About Race
107-year-old woman who danced with the Obamas on what a Trump win would mean for America — Nov. 8, 2016 via Vox
John Oliver Regrets Begging Donald Trump to Run for President — Nov. 7, 2016 via The Hollywood Reporter
Oct. 31 – Nov. 6, 2016
Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth — Nov. 1, 2016 via The New York Times Magazine
Overcoming loss in the middle of a historic campaign — Oct. 31, 2016 via CNN Politics
Oct. 24-30, 2016
Gannett-Tronc Deal in Doubt as Banks Pull Financing — Oct. 28, 2016 via Bloomberg News
The Writer Who Was Too Strong To Live — Oct. 27, 2016 via DeadSpin
Oct. 17-23, 2016
Black Jeopardy — Oct. 23, 2016 via Saturday Night Live
The New Focus on Children’s Mental Health — Oct. 21, 2016 via The Atlantic
JPMorgan CEO Dimon Signals He Expects Clinton to Beat Trump — Oct. 20, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Real Estate Seen Hurt by Brexit Unease of Wait Now, Invest Later — Oct. 19, 2016 via Bloomberg News
LendingClub Slumps on Credit Deterioration, Higher Rates — Oct. 18, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Moelis Adds Ex-Teva CEO Yanai for Health-Care, Technology Deal — Oct. 17, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Oct. 10-16, 2016
The white flight of Derek Black — Oct. 15, 2016 via The Washington Post
Janney Adds Merrill Team Managing $800 Million in Connecticut — Oct. 15, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Berkshire’s Gen Re Promotes Brogan to CEO of Aircraft Risk Unit — Oct. 14, 2016 via Bloomberg News
JPMorgan Conducts ‘Deep Dive’ Review After Wells Fargo Lapse — Oct. 13, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Left Behind By A Fallen Soldier, and Fighting Flashbacks 10 Years Later — Oct. 12, 2016 via The New York Times
AllianceBernstein’s $7 Billion AIG Outflow Ends Six-Year-Old Tie — Oct. 11, 2016 via Bloomberg News
Donald Trump’s Barrage of Heated Rhetoric Has Little Precedent — Oct. 10, 2016 via The New York Times
Oct. 3-9 2016
Recording Williamsburg’s Latest Transformation, and Raging Against It — Oct. 9, 2016 via The New York Times
This Wasn’t a Debate. This Was National Gaslighting. — Oct. 9, 2016 via Slate
51 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Grey’s Anatomy — Oct. 8, 2016 via BuzzFeed
Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2016
Scandals — Sept. 26, 2016 via Last Week Tonight
Sept. 19-25, 2016
Ghetto Life 101 — Sept. 25, 2016 via NPR
Charlotte’s economy is strong but inequality remains — Sept. 24, 2015 via Marketplace
Seth Meyers Proves He’s the Anti-Fallon — Sept. 23, 2016 via The Atlantic
No, I’m from New York — Sept. 22, 2016 via The New Yorker
Why Warren Buffett Is Still So Important to Investors Today — Sept. 21, 2016 via The Street
Man fatally shot by Tulsa police was unarmed, chief says, as ‘disturbing’ video is released — Sept. 20, 2016 via The Washington Post
No, CNN is not biased for Trump, CNN host Brian Stelter says — Sept. 19, 2016 via Recode
Sept. 12-18, 2016
What O.J. Simpson Means to Me — Sept. 18, 2016 via The Atlantic
Trump is trying to rewrite the history of birtherism. This is what really happened. — Sept. 15, 2016 via Think Progress
NBC Faces Storm of Criticism After Presidential Forum — Sept. 12, 2016 via CNN
Sept. 5 – 11, 2016
Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11 — Sept. 11, 2016 via The Wall Street Journal
Millennials have discovered ‘going out’ sucks — Sept. 10, 2016 via Vice
This was 9/11 if you were a kid — Sept. 9, 2016 via The Washington Post
Chris Matthews accidentally revealed why Matt Lauer failed so badly in challenging Donald Trump — Fusion via Sept. 8, 2016
Is Media Grading Trump On A Curve — CNN via Sept. 7, 2016
African Americans worry Trump has awoken a resentment that won’t go away — Washington Post via Sept. 6, 2016
Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble — Freakonomics Radio via Sept. 5, 2016
Aug. 29 – Sept. 4, 2016
Georgetown’s slavery announcement is remarkable. But it’s not reparations. — Sept. 3, 2016 via Vox
Georgetown University Plans Steps to Atone for Slave Past — Sept. 1, 2016 via The New York Times
Franchesa Ramsey explains why these “excuses for slavery” need to stop — Aug. 29, 2016 via Blavity
Aug. 22-28, 2016
The Overlooked Consumer Group With Billions to Spend — Aug. 28, 2016 via The Atlantic
Plight of urban poor still moves author — Aug. 27, 2016 via The Chicago Tribune
How Chance the Rapper’s Life Became Perfect —Aug. 26, 2016 via GQ
How Things Work — Aug. 25, 2016 via Gawker
Why the Louisiana flood wasn’t covered as widely — Aug. 24, 2016 via CNN
Ivanka Trump doesn’t pay interns. Should all interns be paid? — Aug. 23, 2016 via The Tylt
The New York Times has created a newsroom0-wide team for covering race — Aug. 22, 2016 via Poynter
Aug. 15-21, 2016
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Donald Trump — Aug. 21, 2016 via HBO
What it’s like to report on 2016, in 26 torturous, hilarious seconds — Aug. 18, 2016 via The Washington Post
National Guard Deployed in Milwaukee Amid Unrest Over Fatal Police Shooting — Aug. 16, 2016 via The New York Times
Donald Trump says media is out to get her — Aug. 15, 2016 via CNN Money
Aug. 8-14, 2016
In New York, ice cream truck jingle jangles nerves — Aug. 14, 2016 via Marketplace
The Best Presidential Candidate for Jobs Isn’t Running in This Year’s Election — Aug. 13, 2016 via Bloomberg
FTC to Crack Down on Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Clear Ads — Aug. 12, 2016 via Bloomberg
Big Toy Makers Clash With the Inventors They Depend On — Aug. 11, 2016 via Bloomberg
NBC Buys Rights to ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Franchises — Aug. 10, 2016 via Bloomberg
This election isn’t just Democrat vs. Republican. It’s normal vs. abnormal. — Aug. 9, 2016 via Vox
Hannity Fires Back at CNN’s Stelter for Calling Out His ‘Dangerous’ Rigged Election Talk — Aug. 8, 2016 via Mediate
Questions & Answers on Voter Fraud — Aug. 9, 2016 via The New York Times
Aug. 2-7, 2016
Body cams give close-up, disturbing views in fatal police shooting — Aug. 7, 2016 via Chicago Tribune
Hilary Clinton to Address Joint Black and Latino Journalist Convention — Aug. 6, 2016 via BuzzFeed
Why Some Young Women Say Ho-Hum to Clinton’s Historic Achievement — Aug. 5, 2016 via Bloomberg
National Association of Black Journalists at USC wins Student Chapter of the Year Award at NABJ/NAHJ Convention in DC — Aug. 4, 2016 via USC Annenberg
6 scribes from The New York Times who ‘write good’ — Aug. 3, 2016 via Poynter
Bottled Water to Outsell Soda for First Time This Year — Aug. 2, 2016 via Bloomberg
July 25-Aug. 1, 2016
How journalists can do their crucial job in the next 100 days — Aug. 1, 2016 via Washington Post
After Khan speech, pocket Constitution becomes best-seller — July 31, 2016 via PBS
At 6, Ruby Bridges became a civil rights icon. At 61, she’s hitting the campaign trail. — July 30, 2016 via Washington Post
The 250 People, Places and Things Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List — July 29, 2016 via The New York Times
Tempur Sealy Surges After U.S. Housing Market Help Fuel Results — July 28, 2016 via Bloomberg
Barnes & Noble Aims to Recapture Magic With Harry Potter Release — July 27, 2016 via Bloomberg
Why Sandra Cisneros Split From Chicago —July 26, 2016 via Chicago Magazine
Pokemon Go Memorializes Tamir Rice, 12 Year Old Shot by Cleveland Police — July 25, 2016 via Fortune
July 18-24, 2016
Say farewell to VHS (if you hadn’t already) — July 21, 2016 via Engadget
Back-to-School Spending Set to Rise 11% as Confidence Grows — July 22, 2016 via Bloomberg
Mell at W. Englewood Anti-Violence Rally: ‘We Need to Support Each Other’ — July 21, 2016 via DNA Info
Trump Haters Bring Potential Windfall to Urban Outfitters — July 19, 2016 via Bloomberg
How Violence Affects the Children Who Witness It — July 18, 2016 via Chicago Magazine
July 11-17, 2016
Kevin Durant Puts His Money and Celebrity Behind Postmates — July 16, 2016 via Bloomberg
Podcasting Has An Ad-Skipping Problem, Too — July 15, 2016 via Wall Street Journal
Climbing Walls Are Moving Into a Shopping Center Near You — July 14, 2016 via Bloomberg
July 4-10, 2016
Review: `OJ: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall —July 6, 2016 via The New York Times
BREAKING: Barack Obama is still a very, very good candidate — July 5, 2016 via Washington Post
June 27 – July 3, 2016
Who Is The Real Eric Garcetti — June 29, 2016 via Los Angeles Magazine
Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years. — June 29, 2016 via The Washington Post
How White People Got Made — June 28, 2016 via Medium
Jesse Williams says black lives matter – we break down why his BET speech matters — June 27, 2016 via The Los Angeles Times
June 20-26, 2016
June 13-19, 2016
Melania Trump on Her Rise, Her Family Secrets, and Her True Political Views: “Nobody Will Ever Know” — June 19, 2016 via GQ
In a Race to Save a Man on the Tracks, a Reminder of What’s Good in the World — June 17, 2016 via The New York Times
Johnson Publishing sells Ebony, Jet magazines to a Texas firm — June 16, 2016 via Chicago Tribune
How a Chicago reporter ‘explodes stereotypes’ with unexpected stories about the city — June 15, 2016 via Columbia Journal Review
Remembering the Victims — June 14, 2016 via CNN
Donald Trump just barred Washington Post reporters from campaign events — June 13, 2016 via The Washington Post
June 6-12, 2016
Slow Jam the News – June 12, 2016 via The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The ‘L’ You Say — June 9, 2016 via Chronicle of Higher Learning
Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker — June 8, 2016 via BuzzFeed
The Quinceanera, a Rites of Passage in Transition — June 7, 2016 via The New York times
‘A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action’: Dad defends Stanford sex offender — June 5, 2016 via The Washington Post
May 30 – June 5, 2016
Diana Rauner’s dual roles put her in the eye of the budget storm — June 5, 2016 via Crain’s Chicago Business
Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, Artistic Giants of Postwar Harlem — June 4, 2016 via The New York Times
Just a murder-suicide in a small UCLA office. And so America shrugs. — June 3, 2016 via The Los Angeles Times
Twenty years after welfare reform, we return to West Virginia — June 2, 2016 via Marketplace
‘Roots’ Returns for the Black Lives Matter Generation — June 1, 2016 via Daily Beast
The Short Life of Deonte Hoard — May 30, 2016 via BuzzFeed
May 23-29, 2016
The End of Black Harlem — May 29, 2016 via The New York Times
Harvard grad subs speech for powerful poem — May 28, 2016 via USA Today College
13, right now — May 27, 2016 via Washington Post
Obama: World leaders ‘rattled’ by Trump — May 26, 2016 via Politico
The Heirs — May 25, 2016 via New York Magazine
The New York Times future is beginning to take shape — May 24, 2016 via Poynter
Now, there’s one more reason to be a journalist — May 23, 2016 via The Washington Post
May 16-22, 2016
The New York Times Brings Students Journalism Institute to New York City in Collaboration with CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — May 22, 2016 via The New York Times
Signs that you might already be suffering from post-Obama depression — May 21, 2016 via Blavity
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Commencement Speech at UPenn — May 19, 2016 via HeatStreet
The legacy of Harold Washington — May 18, 2016 via Chicago Reader
May 9-15, 2016
Whites and blacks in Chicago are living in two totally different cities — May 9, 2016 via Marketplace
The Adventures of Mark Twain’s debt — May 6, 2016 via Marketplace
April 30-May 5, 2016
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Puerto Rico — May 3, 2016 via Last Week Tonight
The Most Career-Minded Generation — May 2, 2016 via The Atlantic
The Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors — May 1, 2016 via Bloomberg
Beyonce’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made For Me — April 30, 2016 via Consequence of Sound
April 24-29, 2016
Why are so many great black TV shows missing from streaming services? — April 29, 2016
A Farewell to Al Jazeera America — April 28, 2016 via The Nation
North Siders Visit Englewood For First Time: ‘Just A Regular Neighborhood’ — April 27, 2016 via DNA Info Chicago
In uncertainty of college, newspapers provide identity — April 26, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Barack Obama, the first-alt comedy president — April 25, 2016 via The Washington Post
April 18-23, 2016
Why we grieve artists we never met, in one tweet — April 21, 2016 via Vox
The age when people are the most popular, according to science — April 19, 2016 via The Washington Post
National Group Therapy — April 18, 2016 via Slate
April 11-17, 2016
How newsroom pressure is letting fake stories on the web — April 17, 2016 via The Guardian
The NFL’s schedule making team — April 16, 2016 via The Los Angeles Times
What a historically black college looks like after bankruptcy — April 15, 2016 via Slate
Julianna Margulies: ‘The Good Wife’ Finale Is Nothing But Brilliant — April 14, 2016 via The Daily Beast
Why the Poor Die Young — April 13, 2016 via The Atlantic
Bouncers Are Putting Their Lives on the Line to Keep Bars Safe — April 12, 2016 via Chicago Magazine
April 4-10, 2016
American Idol will be missed — April 8, 2016 via The Atlantic
Mr. Ten Percent: The Man Who Built — And Bilked — American Soccer — April 7, 2016 via BuzzFeed
Nostalgia plays a role in ‘lame-duck’ students — April 6, 2016 via Daily Trojan
SNL skewers Trump’s ‘bad week with women’ — April 5, 2016 via The Hill
Trump accidentally speaks truth of anti-abortion politics — April 4, 2016 via Salon
March 28 – April 3
When faraway tragedies are ignored, it’s not always the media’s fault — April 3, 2016 via Chicago Tribune
The Perfect State Index: If Iowa, N.H. Are Too White To Go First, Then Who? — April 2, 2016 via NPR
Roscoe’s Chicken And Waffles Goes Bankrupt? — April 1, 2016 via Jet Magazine
A model first lady, despite receiving unprecedented scorn – March 31, 2016 via The Washington Post
“Millennial” should be more inclusive — March 30, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Are quality-of-life issues spurring Chicagoans to move out? — March 29, 2016 via Chicago Tribune
These struggling twentysomethings have never even heard of ‘millennials’ — March 28, 2016 via Fusion
March 21-27, 2016
What we’re doing missing when we buy into the ‘millennial’ myth — March 27, 2016 via Fusion
Intentionally Accidental: NPR’s “Next Gen Radio” — March 26, 2016 via LinkedIn
Donald Trump’s Social Media Ties to White Supremacists — March 25, 2016 via Fortune
What young journalists can learn from Michael Feeney — March 24, 2016 via Columbia Journal Review
Two Decades of Portraits of the People Living in Los Angeles’ Imperial Courts Housing Projects — March 23, 2016 via Slate
No, New York Times, millennials are not at fault for the death of the workplace — March 22, 2016 via The Guardian
The most baffling moments from Donald Trump’s Washington Post ed board interview — March 21, 2016 via The Washington Post
March 14-20, 2016
‘Old but not cold’: Four very longtime friends anticipate turning 100 this year — March 19, 2016 via The Washington Post
Why frat bros can throw parties but sorority sisters aren’t allowed to — March 18, 2016 via The Washington Post
Where to turn when there’s nowhere to turn — March 17, 2016 via Marketplace
Introductions and Story Ideas: Next Gen Radio USC Kicks Off — March 16, 2016 via NPR’s Next Generation Radio
Student organizations host journalism workshops for South LA high school students — March 15, 2016 via USC IDEA
Proud of Obama’s Legacy, Blacks Are Sad to See Him Go — March 14, 2016 via The New York Times
March 7-13, 2016
How Trump Happened — March 13, 2016 via Slate
Donald Trump fans are not actually hard to find in California — March 10, 2016 via Los Angeles Times
The Risk I Will Not Take — March 9, 2016 via Bloomberg Politics
9 most interesting moments of the Democratic debate — March 8, 2016 via Politico
USC must diversify its scholarship offerings — March 7, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Feb. 29 – March 6, 2016
Millennial Reporters Grab the Campaign-Trail Spotlight — March 6, 2016 via The New York Times
Oakland Tribune, Once a Model of Newsroom Diversity, Is Folding — March 5, 2016 via The Root
March for justice: Students trace footsteps of the civil rights movement — Feb. 29, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Feb. 22-28, 2016
How Older Women Are Reshaping the U.S. Job Market — Feb. 28, 2016 via Wall Street Journal
Why Electing Hillary in ’16 Is More Important Than Electing Obama in ’08 — Feb. 27, 2016 via The Daily Beast
Jesse Owens Was Brave. So Were 17 Other Black Athletes. — Feb. 26, 2016 via The Huffington Post
Why White Death Rates Are Rising — Feb. 25, 2016 via The New York Times
What’s holding back US apprenticeships — Feb. 24, 2016 via The Wall Street Journal
Trump joke isn’t funny — Feb. 23, 2016 via the Chicago Sun-Times
The futile fight to save Autumn, a 1-year-old victim of gang violence in Compton — Feb. 22, 2016 via The Los Angeles Times
Feb. 15-21, 2016
In Photos: A Short History Of Official Funerals For Supreme Court Justices — Feb. 21, 2016 via NPR
Could a mall in Baldwin Hills become the next Glendale Americana? — Feb. 20, 2016 via Los Angeles Times
The Digital Dirt — Feb. 19, 2016 via The New Yorker
Stephen Colbert Will Be ‘Forever Grateful’ to Antonin Scalia — Feb. 18, 2016 via Daily Beast
Kendrick Lamar had the most important performance at the Grammy’s — Feb. 17, 2016 via USA Today
At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags — Feb. 16, 2016 via Wall Street Journal
John Oliver Slams Republicans Attempting to Block Obama’s Supreme Court Choice — Feb. 15, 2016 via Daily Beast
Feb. 8 – 14, 2016
Meryl Streep’s defense of all-white film festival panel flops — Feb. 11, 2016 via MSNBC
On ‘Scandal,’ Olivia’s new red leather trenchcoat means everything you think it does — Feb. 10, 2016 via Washington Post
Students address urban crowding problem in contest –Feb. 8, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Feb. 1 – 7, 2016
Photos test millennials’ ties with black history — Feb. 7, 2016 via Daily Trojan
“You’ll Be Here Forever” — Feb. 6, 2016 via Every Goddamn Day
President Obama’s inability to integrate a divided America — Feb. 5, 2016 via The Los Angeles Times
Self-education is vital to political engagement — Feb. 4, 2016 via Daily Trojan
Hard work is irrelevant — Feb. 3, 2016 via NPR
Diversity Reigns at SAG Awards After Oscar Controversy — Feb. 2, 2016 via Variety
Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School — Feb. 1, 2016 via The Atlantic
Jan. 25-31, 2016
How Trump Is Exposing Media’s Diversity Problems — Jan. 31, 2016 via The Atlantic
York & Fig: A most interesting intersection — Jan. 30, 2016 via Marketplace
Why Are Americans Ignoring Trevor Noah — Jan. 29, 2016 via Slate
Black stunt men and women still fighting — Jan. 28, 2016 via Marketplace
Getting Rid of Bosses — Jan. 27, 2016 via The Atlantic
SNL Vaporizes Hollywood For Snubbing Black Actors at Award Show — Jan. 26, 2016 via Mediate
How Sarah Palin created Donald Trump — Jan. 25, 2016 via The Atlantic
Jan. 18-24, 2016
How Sarah Palin created Donald Trump — Jan. 25, 2016 via The Atlantic
Instead of an Oscars Boycott, Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith Should Do What Eddie Murphy Did in ’88 — Jan. 24, 2016 via Slate
Best Hikes in Los Angeles — Jan. 23, 2016 via Modern Hiker
Film Shows Clinton Aide’s Own Struggle With Anthony Weiner Scandal — Jan. 22, 2016 via The New York Times
In Remembrance of The Prince of Egypt — Jan. 21, 2016 via Black Nerd Problems
Rahm Emanuel is suddenly hanging out with black people a lot — Jan. 20, 2016 via Fusion
18 Things You Never Realized “Boy Meets World” Taught You About Life — Jan. 19, 2016 via BuzzFeed
When Martin Luther King Jr. took his fight into the North, and saw a new level of hatred — Jan. 18, 2016 via Los Angeles Times
Jan. 11-17, 2016
Why Wikipedia Is In Trouble — Jan. 16, 2016 via TIME
United’s Quest to be Less Awful — Jan. 15, 2016 via Bloomberg
Chance the Rapper Raised $100k to Make Coats for Chicago’s Homeless — Jan. 14, 2016 via Mask
Twelve Things Journalists Need to Remember to be Good Economic Reporters — Jan. 13, 2016 via Nieman Watchdog
‘White privilege’ just made an appearance in the presidential race. — Jan. 12, 2016 via The Washington post
Jan. 4-10, 2016
A World Without Work — Jan. 10, 2016 via The Atlantic
Trevor Noah’s Segment on Obama and Gun Control — Jan. 8, 2016 via Esquire
Dec. 14 – 20, 2015
NBA lends its name and its stars to a gun violence campaign — Dec. 25, 2015 via The New York Times
A black Hermoine already existed in fans’ imagination — Dec. 24, 2015 via CBC
The Best Podcasts of 2015 — Dec. 23, 2015 via The Atlantic
A Year of Good Things — Dec. 22, 2015 via Slate
Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Game. — Dec. 17, 2015 via The New York Times
Black Coder for Hire — Dec. 16, 2015 via International Business Times
Pres. Obama Sings Hotline Bling — Dec. 15, 2015 via Global Grind
Dec. 7 – 13, 2015
15 Questions Unanswered In The ‘Serial’ Finale — Dec. 13, 2015 via The Huffington Post
What to Read, Watch and Listen to When Season 1 of Serial is Over — Dec. 12, 2015 via Slate
A New History of Prohibition — Dec. 11, 2015 via Slate
Supreme Court Justices, Don’t Reject Diversity. Celebrate It. — Dec. 8, 2015 via The New York Times
Nov. 30 – Dec. 6, 2015
Mitchell: McCarthy overstayed his welcome — Dec. 4, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Rahm Emanuel just lost it on Politico’s Mike Allen, and boy it was awkward — Dec. 3, 2015 via Washington Post
Garry McCarthy out as Chicago Police Department superintendent — Dec. 2, 2015 via Chicago Tribune
Charles Koch: ‘I don’t like politics’ — Dec. 1, 2015 via Marketplace
This victory removes all doubt: Make Clay Helton head coach — Nov. 30, 2015 via Los Angeles Times
Nov. 23-29, 2015
The letter of recommendation I’ll never forget — Nov. 28, 2015 via Salon
Chicago newswoman smacks down Fox guest — Nov. 27, 2015 via Raw Story
Analysis: Realistic images of Chicago violence interwoven into ‘Chi-Raq’ — Nov. 23, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Nov. 16 – 22, 2015
How Dead Authors Are Making a Killing in Hollywood — Nov. 22, 2015 via The Hollywood Reporter
How has Twitter changed news coverage — Nov. 21, 2015 via Illinois News Bureau
2015 Chicagoans of the Year — Nov. 20, 2015 via Chicago Magazine
Ben Carson defends his street cred — Nov. 19, 2015 via Mic
Even in tragedy, study abroad has value — Nov. 18, 2015 via Daily Trojan
What students of color are fighting for on college campuses — Nov. 17, 2015 via Los Angeles Times
Nov. 9 – 15, 2015
Would University of Missouri students have needed to go to such extremes if they were needed — Nov. 11, 2015 via Los Angeles Times
LGBT resource center smallest in the US – Nov. 10, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Millennials reaching middle age and starting to earn real money — Nov. 9, 2015 via Reuters
Nov. 2 – 8, 2015
Somerville Place celebrates its 20th anniversary — Nov. 8, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Aspiring model killed in drive-by had just gotten first contract — Nov. 7, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Virtual Reality: Behind the Scenes With a Ballerina at Lincoln Center — Nov. 6, 2015 via Wall Street Journal
How the Government Polices What Student Debtors Spend — Nov. 5, 2015 via Bloomberg Business
Technology helps long-distance relationships — Nov. 4, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Rachel Dolezal admits to being born white — Nov. 3, 2015 via International Business Times
Deterioration of public school arts program has been particularly jarring in L.A. — Nov. 2, 2015 via Los Angeles Times
Oct. 26 – Nov. 1, 2015
Black joy matters — Nov. 1, 2014 via Blavity
Breaking the Story: The Chicago Schools Superintendent Scandal — Oct. 30, 2015 via EWA
Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves? — Oct. 29, 2015 via The Guardian
Diversity is for white people — Oct. 28, 2015 via Salon
More pressure means millennials need help — Oct. 27, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Are Chicagoans to blame for south central’s crime? — Oct. 26, 2015 via The Elkhart Truth
Oct. 19 – 25, 2015
Career Advice to my Daughter on Graduation Day — Oct. 22, 2015 via Forbes
BuzzFeed’s New Diversity Numbers Show Digital Media Giant Has Caught Up With The Washington Post — Oct. 21, 2015 via IB Times
Compare presidential candidates — Oct. 20, 2015 via Graphiq
CNN Democratic Debate Backlash — Oct. 19, 2015 via the International Business Times
Oct. 12-18, 2015
Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood? — Oct. 18, 2015 via Slate
Medill Newsmakers: Attaining Peaceful Race Relations (Video) — Oct. 17, 2015 via Medill Reports Chicago
Celebrities should play role in race discussions — Oct. 16, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Documents, former players point to Steve Sarkisian’s alcohol use at Washington — Oct. 15, 2015 via The Los Angeles Times
Annenberg hosts Hack the Gender Gap for women — Oct. 14, 2015 via Daily Trojan
What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech — Oct. 13, 2015 via The New York Times
Millennials, you literally cannot call yourselves adults until you take this pledge — Oct. 12, 2015 via Los Angeles Times
Oct. 5-11, 2015
Raven-Symone Rips Black Names, But Forgot About Her Own — Oct. 11, 2015 via Ebony
The Question at the Heart of ‘The Good Wife’ — Oct. 10, 2015 via The New Yorker
Dicing with death — Oct. 9, 2015 via The Economist
Sidmel Estes, 60: Media trailblazer was admired mentor — Oct. 8, 2015 via Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Here Is Where Each Generation Begins and Ends, According to Facts — Oct. 7, 2015 via The Atlantic
The Washington Post’s Arc platform powers Willamette Week site — Oct. 6, 2015 via The Washington Post
Donald Trump Is Not Going Anywhere — Oct. 5, 2015 via The New York Times Magazine
Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, 2015
The Plot Against Student Newspapers? — Oct. 4, 2015 via The Atlantic
Does Open Data Need Journalism? – Oct. 3, 2015 via Reuters Institute
Are Cops Really Racist? — Oct. 2, 2015 via The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
The Plot Against Student Newsrooms — Oct. 1, 2015 via The Atlantic
The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind — Sept. 30, 2015 via Technology Review
Twitter Verification Is Meaningless — Sept. 29, 2015 via The Atlantic
FOMO Is Essential for Brands to Attract Millennials – Sept. 28, 2015 via The Huffington Post
Sept. 21-27, 2015
How The Arizona Republic found success with storytelling events — Sept. 27, 2015 via Nieman Lab
Living on Almost Nothing in America — Sept. 26, 2015 via $2 A Day
For a Glimpse at Twitter’s Future, Check Out This App — Sept. 25, 2015 via Variety
Young activists getting results — in Chicago, across the nation — Sept. 24, 2015 via Chicago Tribune
Who’s Behind Newsweek? — Sept. 23, 2015 via Mother Jones
Why newsrooms should care about virtual reality — Sept. 22, 2015 via Journalism.com.uk
What the world got wrong about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — Sept. 21, 2015 via The New York Times
Sept. 14 – 20, 2015
These are the schools driving America’s student loan crisis — Sept. 20, 2015 via The Washington Post
Community Restaurants in South LA — Sept. 19, 2015 via KCET
The Truth about Chicago’s Crime Rates — Sept. 18, 2015 via Chicago Magazine
Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on Kim Davis, Planned Parenthood and other big issues — Sept. 17, 2015 via The Washington Post
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration — Sept. 16, 2015 via The Atlantic
FERPA eliminates lazy college kid stereotype — Sept. 15, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Sept. 7 – Sept. 13, 2015
Millennials Must Pass On The Memory of 9/11 — Sept. 12, 2015 via Neon Tommy
The regrettable demise of the made-for-TV genre — Sept. 11, 2015 via The Week
Austin Beutner is out as L.A. Times publisher — Sept. 10, 2015 via L.A. Times
I played ‘Slave Tetris’ so your kids won’t have to — Sept. 9, 2015 via The L.A. Times
What Mom never told you about filling out applications — Sept. 8, 2015 via All Digitocracy
Crimes Women Are More Likely Than Men to Commit — Sept. 7, 2015 via Vocativ
August 31- Sept. 6, 2015
Chicago Reporter ends print edition — September 6, 2015 via Crain’s Chicago Business
Backpack Makers Rethink a Student Staple — September 5, 2015 via The New York Times
The 6 Versions of Kanye We’d Like To Have Back (And Give Awards To) — September 4, 2015 via Blavity
My daughter was killed on live television. I will do whatever it takes to end gun violence. — September 3, 2015 via The Washington Post
5 tips for getting started in data journalism — September 2, 2015 via Poynter
Salon apologizes for calling Nicki Minaj’s speech ‘savage’ — September 1, 2015 via Poynter
How Hurricane Katrina Changed Journalists’ Values — August 31, 2015 via Maynard Institute
August 24-30, 2015
Higher Education’s Real Censors — August 30, 2015 via Salon
‘This Is Not Going Well’ —August 29, 2015 via Slate
Behind the Story: How Chicago Magazine exposed the truth about the city’s crime rates — August 28, 2015 via IRE
Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing — August 27, 2015 via Seven Scribbs
Nearly 20 Years Ago, Lauryn Hill Made an Album So Perfect It Nearly Ruined Her Life — August 26, 2015 via Mic
L.A. Times op-ed on online corrections: ‘There’s a stunning lack of transparency’ — August 25, 2015 via Poynter
Where Black Lives Matter Begin — August 24, 2015 via Slate
August 17-23, 2015
Times Regrets ‘Slave Mistress’ in Julian Bond Obituary — August 20, 2015 via The New York Times
Comic showing the difference between Latino and Hispanic — August 19, 2015 via Vox
At many local newspapers, there are no reporters of color — August 18, 2015 via Columbia Journal Review
August 10-16, 2015
The Coding of the American Mind — August 15, 2015 via The Atlantic
Dangerous Tropes — August 14, 2015 via Slate
When candidates try too hard on social media — August 13, 2015 via CNBC
Sun-Times story on minimum wage win reporting honor —August 12, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
New Details Emerge in the Death of Chicago School Board President Michael Scott — August 11, 2015 via Chicago Magazine
Floetry inducted into South Shore Prep artist’s Hall of Fame — August 10, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times Entertainment
August 3- 9, 2015
Prince Talks Up His New Music Industry Beef During Surprise Interview — August 9, 2015 via BuzzFeed
Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off — August 7, 2015 via The New York Times
18 Times Black Actors Played Journalists — August 6, 2015 via NABJ Monitor
Abortions won’t drop if Planned Parenthood loses federal funding — August 5, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
No Shootings Since ‘Army’ of Moms Set Up on South Side — But They Need Help — August 4, 2015 via DNAinfo
July 27-August 2, 2015
The Power of Images with #SamDuboise — July 31, 2015 via Fusion
Between The World And Me: Black American Motherhood — July 30, 2015 via The Atlantic
The Politics of Blood: HIV Criminalization in the Modern Era — July 29, 2015 via Medium
Campus Suicide and the Pressure of Perfection — July 28, 2015 via The New York Times
The Art of the Side Hustle — July 27, 2015 via For Harriet
July 20-26, 2015
12 Ryanair Moments That Are Way Too Real — July 26, 2015 via BuzzFeed
A Few Good Reasons to Drop Out of Art School — July 25, 2015 via The New Yorker
Charleston’s rival newspapers just merged. Is two-paper Detroit next? — July 24, 2015 via Columbia Journal Review
The Nick Minaj debate is bigger than Taylor Swift’s ego — July 23, 2015 via The Guardian
Undocumented Steinmetz grad to attend White House summit – July 22, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
The rival ‘nightcrawlers’ of Chicago TV violence are having a moment in the light — July 21, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Englewood students’ book envisions a more peaceful neighborhood — July 20, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
July 13-19, 2015
Residents say North Center day care facility will fill a need — July 16, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Marlene Sanders, Pathbreaking TV Journalist, Dies at 84 — July 15, 2015 via The New York Times
July 6-12, 2015
Jenny Horne: How a descendant of the Confederacy helped vanquish his flag — July 12, 2015 via The Washington Post
Those headed for the top add print to their digital reading — July 11, 2015 via Financial Times
How the Tribune Saved American From Fourth of July Lockjaw — July 10, 2015 via Chicago Magazine
Rahm Emanuel: ‘I Am Not An Education Reformer’ — July 9, 2015 via The Atlantic
Shootings Few and Far Between on Northwest Side — July 8, 2015 via DNAinfo Chicago
One Summer Chicago offers students lessons in work, life — July 7, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
What Schools Will Do to Keep Students on Track — July 6, 2015 via The Atlantic
June 29 – July 5, 2015
In Praise of the Teen Summer Job — July 5, 2015 via Wall Street Journal
Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the film Nightcrawler is this dark decade in a nutshell — July 4, 2015 via Vox
How to stay safe around (illegal) Chicago fireworks — July 3, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times Thrive
As teachers picket, some worry about special ed cuts — July 2, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
LA Press Club recognizes Intersections for South LA reporting — July 1, 2015 via Intersections: South LA
Education Policy Roundup — June 30, 2015 via Politico
Alma Backyard Farms — June 29, 2015 via Angelus
June 22-28, 2015
How a bunch of Hollywood Jews saved little league baseball in South Los Angeles — June 28, 2015 via Jewish Journal
A black man and a white woman switch mics, and the result is amazing — June 27, 2015 via Daily Kos
Is it time for the Confederate flag to be as taboo as the Nazi swastika? — June 26, 2015 via The Washington Post
John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting — June 25, 2015 via L.A. Times
Noble Charter recognized as one of nation’s best charter schools — June 24, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Mentoring programs push college-bound students to maximize application process — June 23, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
In South LA, anger and sadness in the wake of Charleston shootings — June 22, 2015 via KPCC
June 15-21, 2015
White Fragility, Silence, and Supremacy: Why All White Hands Are Bloody — June 21, 2015 via Black Girl Dangerous
Blackhawks parade, rally crowd estimated at 2 million — June 20, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
5 black Chicagoans who passed for white — June 19, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Blackhawks’ win means ‘everything for the city’ — June 18, 2015 via The Chicago Sun-Times
7 Tupac Songs That Still Resonate With Black America Today — June 17, 2015 via The Huffington Post
Advantage Academy student earns 13 years of perfect attendance — June 16, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for more diversity in tech development — June 15, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
June 8-14, 2015
The ABCs of Race — June 14, 2015 via The Inlander
Did NAACP president lie about her race? City investigates — June 13, 2015 via KXLY
Prison as Playground — June 12, 2015 via Slate
When You ‘Literally Can’t Even’ Understand Your Teenager — June 11, 2015 via New York Magazine
Des’ree’s right, you gotta be bad, you gotta be bold — June 10, 2015 via the AV Club
Uber wants to bump up number of women drivers — June 9, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school — June 8, 2015 via The Washington Post
June 1-7, 2015
The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up — June 6, 2015 via The New York Times
New Amanda Knox Film Has Beastly Twist — June 5, 2015 via Daily Beast
11 TV Struggles Every ’90s Kid Remembers — June 4, 2015 via BuzzFeed
TV Review: ‘Orange Is The New Black,’ Season 3 — June 3, 2015 via Variety
How to Find Your Place in the World After Graduation — June 2, 2015 via The New York times
May 25-31, 2015
As Black As I Wanna Be? — May 28, 2015 via Annenberg Radio News
Movement started by Hadiya Pendleton’s friends spawns national Wear Orange campaign — May 27, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
CTA Shames Rude Passengers with Brutally Honest Ad Campaign — May 26, 2015 via DNAinfo Chicago
Where are the first graduates of Urban Prep — May 25, 2015 via The Chicago Tribune
May 18-24, 2015
Why You Can Kiss My Mulatto Ass — May 24, 2015 via Buzzfeed
Previously on The Good Wife…10 episodes to catch you up for season 6 — May 23, 2015 via AV Club
85 Films By and About Women of Color — May 22, 2015 via Indiewire
‘The Good Wife’ Season 6, Episode 3: Kafka In Action — May 21, 2015 via Mashable
Story Corps: My Brother’s Keeper — May 20, 2015 via Story Corps
Happy 90th Birthday Malcolm X — May 19, 2015 via Black Then
45 Photos Of Black Graduates Guaranteed To Make You Say ‘YASSSS’ — May 18, 2015 via Buzzfeed
May 11-17, 2015
The Time Machine: Mad Men — May 17, 2015 via TIME
What’s the right way to ask if someone’s gay? — May 16, 2015 via Columbia Journalism Review
Michelle Obama on being black — May 14, 2015 via The Washington Post
CTA unveils new bus-tracking system to fix ‘bunching,’ gaps — May 13, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Midas touch — May 12, 2015 via The Guardian
Only three presidents have visited all 50 states in office. Until now — May 11, 2015 via The Washington Post
May 4-10, 2015
Black death has become a cultural spectacle — May 10, 2015 via Salon
In British Comedy, Sometimes the Joke’s on You — May 9, 2015 via Huffington Post College
Do The Right Thing — May 8, 2015 via Criterion
How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere — May 7, 2015 via The Washington Post
What are you laughing at? — May 6, 2015 via The Guardian
Marilyn Mosby, Prosecutor of Freddie Gray Case, Takes a Stand and Calms a Troubled City — May 5, 2015 via The New York Times
Baltimore: The Fire Next Time — May 4, 2015 via The Root
April 27 – May 3, 2015
Stevie Wonder Performs at Fundraising Kickoff for L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti — May 3, 2015 via Variety
How cycling through Amsterdam connected me back to USC — May 2, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Nerd Prom Is a Mess — May 1, 2015 via Politico
Watch A Video Of Obama’s Speech From The 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner — April 30, 2015 via The Huffington Post
SPJ/LA Announces Scholarship Winners — April 29, 2015 via Society of Professional Journalists
Apple Won’t Always Rule. Just Look At IBM. — April 28, 2015 via The New York Times
Toni Morrison: ‘I’m writing for black people…I don’t have to apologise’ — April 27, 2015 via The Guardian
April 20-26, 2015
‘SNL’s Cecily Strong Asks Media Not to Talk About Hillary Clinton’s Appearance — April 26, 2015 via Variety
Why I love: The smart sensuality of ‘Love & Basketball’ — April 25, 2015 via The Washington Post
Life Itself review – a delightful tribute to a U.S. film critic Roger Ebert — April 24, 2015 via The Guardian
The Crisis of the African American Intellectual — April 23, 2015 via The Huffington Post
The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison — April 22, 2015 via The New York Times
The world went mad over Britain’s Prince George. But few care about the arrival of the second royal baby — April 21, 2015 via The Washington Post
April 13-19, 2015
Chiwetel Ejiofor talks about ‘Everyman,’ reconnecting with London and life since ’12 Years A Slave’ — April 17, 2015 via Time Out London
‘The Wire’ Was So Real Police Made Creators Change The Plot — April 16, 2015 via Complex
Comedians are turning the lights out… — April 15, 2015 via The Guardian
Why Sheryl Sandburg, Bill Bradley, and Oprah Winfrey Love Mellody Hobson — April 14, 2015 via Vanity Fair
Study Abroad: It’s Not All Black And White — April 13, 2015 via Huffington Post Black Voices
April 6-12, 2015
To Boldly Go Where No Body Has Gone Before — April 12, 2015 via Slate
This Is The Most Popular Place To Have A First Date — April 11, 2015 via Time
Here’s What Happened When A Troubled Liquor Store Started Selling Fresh Produce — April 10, 2015 via The Huffington Post Impact
Why international students are choosing London — April 9, 2015 via The Guardian
Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina — April 8, 2015 via The New York Times
What these colleges are doing on tuition is better than Stanford — April 7, 2015 via The Washington Post
Report On Retracted ‘Rolling Stone’ Rape Story Cites ‘Systematic Failing’ — April 6, 2014 via NPR
March 30 – April 5, 2015
Why is the White House Easter Bunny always so creepy? — April 5, 2015 via The Washington Post
Your Official Guide to Binge Watching The Good Wife — April 4, 2015 via Morning After
This is what happens when you fall asleep at a play — April 3, 2015 via The Chicago Tribune
“A Public Menace” — April 2, 2015 via Slate
Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ — April 1, 2015 via The New York Times
From Christian Bale to Benedict Cumberbatch, Why British Actors Nab So Many American Roles — March 31, 2015 via The Hollywood Reporter
The Education of a Foreign Correspondent – March 30, 2015 via The New York Times
March 23-29, 2015
Your Straight Hair Doesn’t Equal Strength — March 29, 2015 via The New Republic
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear — March 28, 2015 via The Nation
Starbucks and Branding #Fail — March 27, 2015 via The Economist
The Night I Woke Up About My #BlackSuicide – March 26, 2015 via BuzzFeed
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: How Is This Still A Thing? — March 25, 2015 via HBO
What’s Keeping Black Students From Studying Abroad — March 24, 2015 via The Atlantic
Kerry Washington, ‘Glee’ Star Alex Newell Bring Down the House at the GLAAD Awards — March 23, 2015 via Variety
March 16-22, 2015
From the ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ to ‘Viva Las Vegas,’ an interactive map of songs about your city — March 22, 2015 via The Washington Post
When a solar eclipse was a terrifying thing — March 21, 2015 via The Washington Post
Loving U Is Complicated — March 20, 2015 via Slate
Gorgeous, Vibrant Photos of Istanbul Hidden In Plan Sight — March 19, 2015 via Slate
Black University of Virginia Student Reportedly Beaten By Police Over ID — March 18, 2015 via News One
‘Selma’s’ Ava DuVernay: ‘Studios Aren’t Lining Up For Black Protagonists’ — March 17, 2015 via Variety
Criticizing Columbia Journalism School’s $92,933 Price Tag Is Easy, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t — March 16, 2015 via Slate
March 9-15, 2015
Disney CEO to ‘Absolutely Prohibit’ Smoking in Films Made for Kids — March 15, 2015 via Variety
Read Full Text of President Obama’s Speech in Selma — March 14, 2015 via Time
The House That Thibs Built — March 13, 2015 via Grantland
What Happens When Teens Try To Disconnect From Tech — March 12, 2015 via NPR
An “Empire” Actor Came Out to Ellen and It Was Beautiful — March 11, 2015 via Cosmopolitan
Daylight Savings Time: How Is This Still A Thing — March 10, 2015 via Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
How Long Can a ‘Terrifying Psycho’ Outrun All of Facebook — March 9, 2015 via The Daily Beast
March 2-8, 2015
Red Summer — March 8, 2015 via Slate
What Orange Is The New Black Gets Right About Robert Frost — March 7, 2015 via Slate
Why Hillary Clinton Is Cursed – March 6, 2015 via Slate
Oxford: Better Than Fiction — March 5, 2015 via Daily Trojan
21 Things You Should Force Yourself To Do Every Day — March 4, 2015 via Thought Catalog
Best Quotes From Angela Davis: A Lifetime of Revolution — March 3, 2015 via Buzzfeed
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the basketball icon, reinvented as culture vulture — March 2, 2015 via The Washington Post
February 23- March 1, 2015
What Are Chicago’s Toughest Schools To Get Into? — March 1, 2015 via DNAinfo
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’ — February 28, 2015 via The Guardian
How Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, is still alive — February 27, 2015 via The Washington Post
US Postal Service Honors Maya Angelou With Forever Stamp — February 26, 2015 via NBCBLK
Study abroad tests life skills — February 25, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Civil rights leader Angela Davis speaks at Bovard — February 24, 2015 via Daily Trojan
Wings do not fit in boxes — February 23, 2015 via Morning by Morning
February 16-22, 2015
Life, legacy of ‘greatest unknown medical pioneer’ celebrated — February 22, 2015 via Chicago Sun-Times
Marking Murder — February 21, 2015 via The Economist
Why Africa Is Hollywood’s Biggest Missed Opportunity – February 20, 2015 via The Washington Post
Re-election Bid Offers Test of Mayor’s Appeal to ‘Two Chicagos’ — February 17, 2015 via The New York Times
Map: In The world only these five countries have escaped European colonialism — February 16, 2015 via Vox
February 9-15, 2015
Spike Lee on His New Black Movie and How Black British Actors “Invaded” Hollywood — February 15, 2015 via Slate
Me and My Girls — February 14, 2015 via The New York Times
Jackie Robinson West, city reel at loss of team’s title — February 13, 2015 via Chicago Tribune
History of Lynching in South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names — February 12, 2015 via The New York Times
Black Alumni Association speaks out — February 11, 2015 via Daily Trojan
The Racist Movie That Made Hollywood — February 10, 2015 via Daily Beast
Orangeburg, SC, 1968: The massacre of students you may not have heard of — February 9, 2015 via Daily Kos
February 2-8, 2015
25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile on Barack Obama — February 8, 2015 via Vox
The most important issue no one’s talking about in the mayoral race – February 7, 2015 via The Chicago Reader
Jimmy Fallon Re-Created The “Fresh Prince” Theme Song And It Was Better Than The Original — February 6, 2015 via BuzzFeed Entertainment
WATCH: ‘Selma’ Star David Oyelowo Says Academy Prefers ‘Subservient’ Black Roles — February 5, 2015 via Variety
The Poetry of Malcolm London — February 4, 2015 via Vanichi Magazine
The Misguided Liberal Love for Megyn Kelly — February 3, 2015 via Slate
‘Female Husbands’ In The 19th Century — February 2, 2015 via NPR
January 26- February 1, 2015
Halve females prisoner number, says minister Simon Hughes — February 1, 2015 via BBC News UK
‘Ghettoside’ Explores Why Murders Are Invisible in Los Angeles — January 31, 2015 via NPR
Miss Colombia crowned Miss Universe as Twitter weeps for Miss Jamaica — January 30, 2015 via The Washington Post
Viola Davis Won Best Actress At The SAG & Gave The Most Empowering Acceptance Speech Ever — January 29, 2015 via Tea & Breakfast
Where’s The Empathy — January 28, 2015 via The New York Times
A Twist in the Murder of a 97-Year-Old Man: He Was Knifed 5 Decades Ago — January 27, 2015 via The New York Times
U.S. Once Had Universal Child Care, But Rebuilding It Won’t Be Easy — January 26, 2015 via NPR
January 19-25, 2015
BBC Pop-Up reports from small town America — January 25, 2015 via Columbia Journalism Review
Obama Drops Instantly Legendary Ad-Libbed Burn on Republicans During State of the Union — January 24, 2015 via Slate
Watch President Obama’s State of the Union — January 23, 2015 via Think Progress
State of the Union Speechwriter for Obama Draws on Various Inspirations — January 22, 2015 via The New York Times
CTA Says Goodbye To The 2400-Series Rail Car — January 21, 2015 via Chicagoist
The Myth of Gentrification — January 20, 2015 via Slate
King’s Family Build Its Own Legacy of Legal Battles — January 19, 2015 via NPR
January 12-18, 2015
‘Empire’ Cast and Creators: ‘We’re Showing Real Life’ — January 18, 2015 via Variety
Why I Love Documentaries — January 17, 2015 via Reblog
Why Can’t Hollywood Get Female Journalists Right — January 16, 2015 via New York Magazine
White House Film Festival Seeks Student Submissions — January 14, 2015 via Variety
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement — January 13, 2015 via Daily Beast
The GOP Should Stop Lying About Obama’s Economy — January 12, 2015 via Daily Beast
January 5-11, 2015
Cecil Murray, South LA’s civic leader and spiritual guide — January 11, 2015 via Intersections: South LA
Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo on the ‘Divine Timing’ of ‘Selma’ – January 10, 2015 via Variety
The Rise of the Black British Actor — January 9, 2015 via BuzzFeed
10 Speeches by Black Women That Everyone Needs to Read — January 8, 2015 via Atlanta Black Star
Keisha Knight Pulliam Ousted From ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Over Refusal to Contact Bill Cosby — January 7, 2015 via The New York Times
NYPD Back-Turning Protests Continue at Funeral for Slain Officer — January 6, 2015 via Newsweek
Robin Roberts sheds ‘tears of admiration and profound gratitude’ for Stuart Scott — January 5, 2015 via Washington Post
December 29, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Stuart Scott’s Legacy — January 4, 2015 via ESPN
45 Quick Changes That Help Your Resume Get Noticed — January 3, 2015 via USA Today
Looking Back: Those We Lost in 2014 — January 2, 2015 via The New York Times
30 Things Journalists Do That Piss Off Other Journalists — January 1, 2015 via NewsCastic
The Future Is In Color — December 31, 2014 via Lemon Andersen
The Chicago Sun-Times’ 10 most shared tweets of 2014 — December 30, 2014 via Chicago Sun-Times
Torture, Race, Marijuana and 12 Other Big Issues of 2014 — December 29, 2014 via Washington Post
December 22 – 28, 2014
Hollywood’s race problem: An insular industry struggles to change — December 28, 2014 via Washington Post
The Worst Journalism of 2014 — December 27, 2014 via Columbia Journalism Review
2014: A Year in Pictures — December 26, 2014 via The New York Times
Demolished: The end of Chicago’s public housing — December 25, 2014 via NPR
The 17 Best New Shows of 2014 — December 24, 2014 via BuzzFeed
Donte Stallworth, former NFL wide receiver, working as a Huffington Post Fellow — December 23, 2014 via Washington Post
Hip-Hop’s Huge Problem with Iggy Azalea Just Blew Up — And She Completely Deserves It — December 22, 2014 via Music.Mic
December 15 – 21, 2014
A Changing Mission — December 20, 2014 via San Francisco Chronicle
A Eulogy for Colbert — December 18, 2014 via Newsweek
North Korea Is Not Funny — December 16, 2014 via The Atlantic
‘The Newsroom’ Exits With a Funeral for Old Media — December 15, 2014 via The Atlantic
December 8 – 14, 2014
Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data is Problematic but Necessary — December 14, 2014 via Variety
Shonda Rhimes, Al Sharpton Blast ‘Racist’ Sony Emails — December 13, 2014 via Variety
Shonda Rhimes at THR’s Power Women Event: ‘I Haven’t Broken Any Glass Ceilings” — December 12, 2014 via The Hollywood Reporter
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race — December 11, 2014 via Variety
We’re in danger of becoming separate societies — December 10, 2014 via The San Francisco Chronicle
Dollree Mapp, 1923-2014: “The Rosa Parks of the Fourth Amendment” – December 9, 2014 via The Marshall Project
We Are Desensitized To The Melting Pot We Created — December 8, 2014 via WRKC 88.5
December 1 – 7, 2014
If It Happened There: Courts Sanction Killing by U.S. Security Forces — December 7, 2014 via Slate
Chris Rock Pens Blistering Essay on Hollywood’s Race Problem: “It’s a White Industry” — December 6, 2014 via The Hollywood Reporter
Actually, Blacks Do Care About Black Crime — December 5, 2014 via Slate
This Brilliant Map Renames Each US State With A Country Generating the Same GDP — December 4, 2014 via Business Insider
In Conversation with Chris Rock — December 3, 2014 via Vulture
Chris Rock Sums Up the State of Race in America in a Fascinating Interview — December 2, 2014 via Slate
Jacqueline Woodson responds to Lemony Snicket author’s ‘ignorant’ racist remark — December 1, 2014 via The Guardian
November 24 – 30, 2014
Pain is Colorblind — November 30, 2014 via The New York Times
Raging Protestors Set Ferguson on Fire — November 29, 2014 via Daily Beast
Tracking the South LA protests online — November 28, 2014 via Intersections South LA
George Stephanopoulos’ Darren Wilson Interview Speaks Volumes About ABC News — November 27, 2014 via Variety
Ferguson Protests Reach USC Campus — November 26, 2014 via ATVN
USC locks down amid Ferguson protests — November 25, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Tia and Tamera Mowry Both Have Changed Up Their Hairstyles — November 24, 2014 via People
November 17 – 23, 2014
Finding Marlowe — November 23, 2014 via Los Angles Times
Ask an Ethicist: Can I Still Watch The Cosby Show — November 22, 2014 via Time
Man’s death touches’ an entire community,’ father says — November 21, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
Toni Morrison completely schools Stephen Colbert on the topic of racism — November 20, 2014 via Salon
Music Mogul Quincy Jones Honored at Ebony Power 100 Gala — November 19, 2014 via Variety
The Cosby Show — November 18, 2014 via The Atlantic
November 10 – 16, 2014
U.S. to Revise Bush Policy on Treatment of Prisoners — November 16, 2014 via The New York Times
Is torture ever justified? — November 15, 2014 via The Economist
Why so few white kids land in CPS — and why it matters — November 14, 2014 via WBEZ
Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? — November 13, 2014 via Washington Post
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery — November 12, 2014 via Last Week Tonight
Braving the Flames for Racism — November 11, 2014 via Los Angeles Sentinel
Bill Clinton Predicts ‘Boogie Dance’ in Washington After Republican Senate Win — November 10, 2014 via Variety
November 3 – 9, 2014
‘Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert’ Strain to Lampoon Democratic Losses — November 9, 2014 via NPR
Catcall video goes viral — November 8, 2014 via CNN
‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered — November 7, 2014 via NPR
How ‘Titanic’ Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State — November 6, 2014 via Daily Beast
VH1 Gets to Be Black Without the Burden — November 5, 2014 via The Root
How Uber is Changing Night Life in Los Angeles — November 4, 2014 via The New York Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates defines a new race beat — November 3, 2014 via Columbia Journalism Review
October 27 – November 2, 2014
Rihanna, Miley Cyrus Spark Celebs to Give to HIV/AIDS Fight at amfAR Inspiration Gala — November 2, 2014 via Variety
Can C.L. Max Nikias Turn USC into the Stanford of Southern California — November 1, 2014 via Los Angeles Magazine
The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters — October 31, 2014 via Salon
Whatever It Takes — October 30, 2014 via The New Yorker
Why a Professor Is Teaching an Entire Class About Beyonce — October 29, 2014 via Slate
Why we link Ebola to fictional stories like ‘Contagion’ — October 28, 2014 via Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles cultural boom give city’s artists spaces they can call home — October 27, 2014 via The Guardian
October 20-26, 2014
34 Things People From Chicago Have To Explain To Out-Of-Towners — October 26, 2014 via Movoto
Lionsgate’s Michael Burns, Rob Friedman Honored by Int’l Medical Corps — October 25, 2014 via Variety
Clair Huxtable Is Dead: On Slaying the Cosbys and Making Space for Liv, Analise and Mary Jane — October 24, 2014 via Crunk Feminist Collection
The Wire: David Simon Q&A — October 23, 2014 via What’s Alan Watching?
Why New Cast Member Leslie Jones May Just Save Saturday Night Live — October 22, 2014 via Vanity Fair
‘SNL’ Has One of the Year’s Most Surprisingly Sharp Critiques of Poverty Aid in Africa — October 21, 2014 via Identities.Mic
Julia Roberts, Bob Greenblatt Support LGBT Community at GLSEN Respect Awards — October 20, 2014 via Variety
October 13-19, 2014
‘The Best of Me’ and the evil genius of the Nicholas Sparks empire — October 19, 2014 via The Washington Post
Her Own Kind of Annenberg — October 18, 2014 via Vanity Fair
Kevin Hart, ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ Cast Joke About Reality Show, On-Set Chemistry — October 17, 2014 via Variety
The Beauty And Pain Of Falling In Love With The Right Person At The Wrong Time — October 16, 2014 via Elite Daily
Rieder: What’s next for Politico under Glasser – October 15, 2014 via USA Today
Luiz Rodriguez named LA’s poet laureate — October 14, 2014
The Gays Are Taking Over TV (Well Kind Of) — October 13, 2014
October 6-12, 2014
‘Dear White People’ Star Tyler James William Talks Afros and Chris Rock — October 12, 2014 via Variety
#TBT South LA: Church mothers, circa 1960 — October 11, 2014 via Intersections South LA
52 Colorized Historical Photos That Give Us A New Look At the Past — October 10, 2014 via Distractify
The culture wars are back and this time everyone can win — October 9, 2014 via Washington Post
Bill Maher 1, Ben Affleck 0 — October 8, 2014 via Daily Beast
Does Television Spanglish Need A Rewrite — October 7, 2014 via NPR
‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Can Make You Feel ‘Lost’ — October 6, 2014 via The Root
September 29 – October 5, 2014
‘Last Week Tonight’ Does Real Journalism, No Matter What John Oliver Says — October 5, 2014 via Daily Beast
Gilligan’s Island At 50: A Goofy Show From a Time of TV Innocence — October 4, 2014 via Variety
Why Denzel Washington May Be the Last Pure Movie Star — October 3, 2014 via Variety
At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert — October 2, 2014 via Washington Post
John Oliver Is Doing Some Really Good Investigative Journalism — October 1, 2014 via Huffington Post
In Defense Of Ms. Hill — September 30, 2014 via Medium
Remembering The ‘Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace’ — September 29, 2014 via NPR
September 22-28, 2014
Dear Professor, Some of Us Work 40 Hours a Week —September 28, 2014 via Huffington Post
Adrian Peterson’s actions reflective of cultural differences — September 27, 2014 via Boston Globe
9 stories to catch you up on why people are pissed at the NYT’s story on Shonda Rhimes — September 26, 2014 via Poynter
John Oliver rips apart the insane math of Miss American contest — September 25, 2014 via Vox
30 of Shonda Rhimes’ Stars Respond to New York Times’ “Angry Black Woman” Column — September 24, 2014 via The Hollywood Reporter
The Song That Never Ends: Why Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ Sustains — September 23, 2014 via NPR
What if white men, not black women, were caricatured as ‘angry’? — September 22, 2014 via Melissa Harris-Perry
September 15-21, 2014
‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Cast Talks About Joining ‘TGIT’ in Shondaland — September 21, 2014 via Variety
33 Must-Read Books to Celebrate Banned Books Week — September 20, 2014 via Buzzfeed
As news business takes a hit, the number of black journalists decline — September 18, 2014 via Pew Research Center
5 things white people need to learn about cultural appropriation — September 17, 2014 via The Daily Dot
Atlantic on the move — September 16, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
Since You Already Forgot About #Ferguson and #MikeBrown, Let Me Give You An Update — September 15, 2014 via OOGEE
September 8-14, 2014
Why Casual Dating Is Ruining Us All — September 14, 2014 via Thought Catalog
These 75 Iconic Photos Will Define the 21st Century So Far. Everyone Needs to See This. — September 13, 2014 via Distractify
The Falling Man — September 12, 2014 via Esquire
What Does Never Forget Mean on 9/11? — September 11, 2014 via Chicago Now
5 Traditionally Male Jobs You Didn’t Know Women Pioneered — September 10, 2014 via The Huffington Post
The Revictimizing of Janay Rice — September 9, 2014 via The Nation
Watch John Oliver Discuss Student Debt and Go After For-Profit Colleges — September 8, 2014 via Slate
September 1-7, 2014
Q&A: Amanda Fuller Talks Playing Brittany Murphy in Lifetime Biopic — September 6, 2014
The Mindy Project Really Needs an Abortion Storyline — September 5, 2014 via Slate
How the rest of the world sees Ferguson — September 4, 2014 via Washington Post
“I am not afraid to die”: Why America will never be the same post-Ferguson — September 3, 2014 via Salon
Jackie Robinson West did hard part, now it’s up to the rest of us — September 2, 2014 via Sun-Times Politics
August 25-31, 2014
Watch Jon Stewart Take On Fox News Coverage — August 29, 2014 via Ad Age
Who’s In the Office? The American Workday In One Graph — August 28, 2014 via NPR
Besides Michael Brown, Whom Else Does The New York Times Call ‘No Angel’? — August 27, 2014 via Vanity Fair
Beyond a Simple Solution: Race Relations in Ferguson — August 26, 2014 via Time
Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise — August 25, 2014 via The New York Times
August 18-24, 2014
The Best and Worst of the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards — August 24, 2014 via Variety
Journalism Has a Diversity Problem. How Can We Fix It? — August 23, 2014 via Contently
Face it, blacks. Michael Brown let you down — August 22, 2014 via Medium
Let’s Be Real — August 21, 2014 via Grantland
A News Anchor Draws Comparisons That Make The Story In Ferguson Seem Even More Shocking — August 20, 2014 via Upworthy
Melissa Harris-Perry’s Searing Tribute To Black Men Killed By Police — August 19, 2014 via Huffington Post
The Problem With “Either…Or” & Binary Social-Media Activism — August 18, 2014 via WOHHIPHOP
August 11-17, 2014
Between Ferguson’s Police and Population, A Racial Divide — August 17, 2014 via NPR
Suicide contagion and social media: The dangers of sharing ‘Genie, you’re free’ — August 16, 2014
Black Kids Don’t Have to Be College-Bound for Their Deaths to Be Tragic — August 15, 2014 via The Root
Politicians Pay Tribute to Robin Williams, Whose Satire Didn’t Sting — August 14, 2014 via Variety
SF Chronicle Hopes Incubator Will ‘Turn Around Legacy Media Company’ — August 13, 2014 via PBS
Many Faces and One of a Kind: The Creation of Robin Williams — August 12, 2014 via Daily Beast
Robin Williams Joins Comedian Giants Gone Too Soon — August 11, 2014 via Variety
August 4-10, 2014
Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens — August 6, 2014 via Variety
Is There Any Empathy Left In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — August 5, 2014 via NPR
Hollywood Films Fail to Represent Diversity in U.S., Study Shows — August 4, 2014 via Variety
July 28 – August 3, 2014
Inside the crumbling marriage of Jay-Z and Beyonce — August 3, 2014 via New York Post
Breaking socioeconomic codes at computer camp — August 2, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
Hollywood Gets a Boost From Its Animal Instincts at L.A. Zoo — August 1, 2014 via Variety
Class of 2025 — July 31, 2014 via Oregon Public Broadcasting
Diversity of cyclists growing in Boston — July 30, 2014 via Boston Globe
July 21-27, 2014
‘This should hurt everybody’ Hadiya Pendleton laid to rest — July 27, 2014 via Chicago Sun-Times
Confronting anti-black racism in the Arab world — July 26, 2014 via Aljazeera
A Seat at the Table: Post & Beam in Crenshaw Builds Community One Course at a Time — July 25, 2014 via KCET
Open Letter to the Born Again — July 24, 2014 via The Nation
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prison — July 23, 2014 via HBO
10 Comics to Watch: Lena Waithe’s Pop-Culture Voice Comes Through in ‘Twenties’ — July 22, 2014 via Variety
Ethan Hawke’s Heartwarming Tribute To A “Boyhood” With Music — July 21, 2014 via BuzzFeed
July 14-20, 2014
Tired of Life: Encouragement for the Overworked, Stressed or Exhausted — July 19, 2014 via The Freedom Experiment
Daquan is a White Girl — July 18, 2014 via Medium
Study: ‘Sexy’ pictures on social media make women less competent, attractive to their peers — July 17, 2014 via Washington Post
‘Saturday Night Live’ Short-Timers Who Made It Big — July 16, 2014 via Variety
Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess: America’s oldest race tale, remixed — July 15, 2014 via Salon
What We Talk About When We Talk About Violence in Chicago — July 14, 2014 via NPR
July 7-13, 2014
When I Look In The Mirror — July 13, 2014 via Vimeo
Cleveland: 10 Things Politico Should Know — July 12, 2014 via Huffington Post
Compton reassess native son Dr. Dre, a newly minted billionaire — July 11, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
The Trials of ‘Tammy’: Stop Policing Melissa McCarthy’s Body — July 10, 2014 via Daily Beast
Deadly Fourth of July Weekend in Chicago — July 9, 2014 via the Chicago Sun-Times
She’s Still Dying on Facebook — July 8, 2014 via The Atlantic
7 Life Lessons From ‘Forrest Gump’ on Its 20th Anniversary — July 7, 2014 via ABC News
June 30 – July 6, 2014
Hollywood Pastor Who Ministers to Big Celebs Has a Surprising Message About the Future of the Entertainment Industry — July 6, 2014 via The Blaze
‘The Walking Dead’ adds ‘The Wire’ star Seth Gilliam as series regular — July 5, 2014 via Digital Spy
Debbie Allen talks ‘A Different World’ reboot — July 3, 2014 via The Grio
‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’: Public Art Celebrates the Civil Rights Revolution — July 2, 2014 via KCET
Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone Talk Midwest Upbringing, Working Relationship at ‘Tammy’ Premiere — July 1, 2014 via Variety
June 23-29, 2014
It’s Not Summertime Without You — June 26, 2014 via Thought Catalog
What Diane Sawyer’s departure from “World News” means for women, and for network news — June 25, 2014 via Slate
From Backup Dancer to ‘The Wire’: How A Scar Transformed A Career — June 23, 2014 via NPR
June 16-22, 2014
Melissa Harris-Perry Shows Her Natural Hair Sans Braids and Her New Baby — June 22, 2014 via The Root
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde — June 21, 2014 via MoCADA
Starbucks college program an effective idea — June 20, 2014 via Daily Trojan
U.S. patent office cancels Redskins trademark registration, says name is disparaging — June 19, 2014 via Washington Post
25 Signs You’re Succeeding At Life (Even If It Doesn’t Feel LIke It) — June 19, 2014 via The Open Mind
‘Frogmen’: The O.J. Simpson Pilot the Public Never Saw — June 18, 2014 via Variety
Did This City Bring Down Its Murder Rate by Paying People Not to Kill? — June 17, 2014 via Mother Jones
June 9-15, 2014
The Racism Beat: What It’s Like To Write About Hate Over and Over and Over — June 12, 2014 via Matter
Public must focus on mental health in shooting — June 10, 2014 via Daily Trojan
June 2-8, 2014
‘Selfies’ should not be taken at graduation — June 5, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Tiananmen Square Tank Man: 25 Years Later, His Memory Lives On — June 4, 2014 via ABC News
The Kids of Yesteryear — June 3, 2014 via The New York Times
May 26 – June 1, 2014
Northgate Market and Jamie Oliver program boost South LA food landscape — May 30, 2014 via Intersections South LA
‘The Wonder Years’ cast has photo-filled reunion — May 29, 2014 via Today Entertainment
Maya Angelou Knew How To Inspire As A Writer, A Teacher, and Great Human Being — May 28, 2014 via Daily Beast
10 Years After Its Premiere, ‘The Wire’ Feels Dated, and That’s a Good Thing — May 27, 2014 via The Atlantic
May 19-25, 2014
Plaza aims to boost Leimert Park community — May 23, 2014 via Intersections South LA
First Black Female Network TV Reporter Debuted 40 Years Ago — May 22, 2014 via Maynard Institute
City must encourage use of summer programs — May 21, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Education: Summer for Learning — May 20, 2014 via TIME
How Chirlane McCray Became New York City’s Ideal First Lady — May 19, 2014 via Slate
May 12-18, 2014
Beyonce, Jay-Z and Solange walk into an elevator — May 15, 2014 via NPR
May 5 -11, 2014
African-American Students Weighing Colleges’ Response to Racial Incidents Before Choosing — May 9, 2014 via Atlanta Black Star
Volunteers see river in a new light — May 8, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
The Original South Park, an Oasis in South Los Angeles — May 6, 2014 via KCET
South LA corner stores turn full-service — May 5, 2014 via Intersections South LA
April 28 – May 4, 2014
What kinds of local stories drive engagement? The results of NPR Facebook experiment — May 3, 2014 via Nieman Journalism Lab
Facing off against pollution in South LA neighborhoods — May 2, 2014 via Intersections South LA
Sterling situation raises questions — May 1, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Obama College Prep must consider location — April 30, 2014 via Daily Trojan
White students getting more spots at top CPS high schools — April 29, 2014 via Chicago Sun-Times
The death of Dantrell Davis — April 28, 2014 via Chicago Tribune
April 21-27, 2014
Donald Sterling alleged recording sparks action, anger across L.A. — April 27, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
There’s No Better Test for Millennials than the American City — April 26, 2014 via Daily Beast
Northwestern Football Players Cast Votes for Union — April 25, 2014 via The New York Times
CPS to build selective-enrollment high school named for Obama — April 24, 2014 via Chicago Sun Times
Schools should not threaten suspension carelessly — April 23, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Bloody Chicago weekend raises questions about guns, gangs and morals — April 22, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
April 14-20, 2014
Student voice on LAUSD will better diversify decisions — April 16, 2014 via Daily Trojan
NPHC looks to expand, rebrand — April 15, 2014 via Daily Trojan
An Oasis in the South L.A. Food Desert — April 14, 2014 via Colorlines
April 7-13, 2014
Becoming Obama — April 12, 2014 via Vanity Fair
Students hold discussion with director John Singleton on ‘Higher Learning’, on-campus race relations — April 11, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Food reduction should trump federal standard — April 9, 2014 via Daily Trojan
20 Years Later, Rwandan Genocide Still Educates, Moves Students — April 8, 2014 via Neon Tommy
Why Did Chicago’s Middle Class Disappear? — April 7, 2014 via Chicago Magazine
March 31-April 6, 2014
Student-athletes must take caution before unionizing — April 2, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Divorcing Athletics from College: the Danger of Greener Pastures — March 31, 2014 via Wright and Left
March 24-30, 2014
Stephen Colbert, Racism and the Weaponized Hashtag — March 30, 2014 via Wall Street Journal
Will South LA benefit from SAT upgrades? — March 29, 2014 via Intersections South LA
South LA vs. South Central — March 28, 2014 via Intersections South LA
Trying to close the ‘word gap’ — March 27, 2014 via The New York Times
Informing teachers about grants vital to education — March 26, 2014 via Daily Trojan
‘Kimye’ on the cover of Vogue: Why do we reward lack of character — March 25, 2014 via The Grio
‘Daily Show’s’ Jon Stewart Roasts CNN’s Malaysia Airline Coverage — March 24, 2014
March 17-23, 2014
Meeting of the Minds: Convening Consciousness and Culture at Eso Won Books — March 22, 2014
March 10-16, 2014
Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books — March 15, 2014 via The New York Times
Government must not give up on Head Start programs — March 14, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Green Alleys to took root in South LA — March 13, 2014 via Intersections South LA
The Trial That Unleashed Hysteria Over Child Abuse — March 12, 2014 via The New York Times
Why Alzheimer’s Matters — March 11, 2014 via Huffington Post
Redford Takes on Rahm in the Furious Blur of Chicagoland — March 10, 2014
March 3-9, 2014
BSA holds vigil for racial violence — March 9, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Sacramento hosts students — March 8, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Major Changes in SAT Announced by College Bound — March 7, 2014 via The New York Times
First Student Spotlight — March 6, 2014 via USC Black Student Assembly
School administrators must foster meaningful dialogue — March 5, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Tiny Digital Publisher to Put Newsweek Back in Print — March 4, 2014 via The New York Times
Democrats Try Wooing the Ones Who Got Away: White Men — March 3, 2014 via The New York Times
Feb. 25 – March 2, 2014
Injustice in the courtroom — March 2, 2014 via Daniel Hill’s Blog
Erasure Hurts: Why the Discussion About Pharrell’s Album Cover Matters — February 28, 2014 via For Harriet
And Now For the Further Adventures of Rahm the Impaler — February 27, 2014 via Esquire
Campuses must encourage support systems — February 26, 2014 via The Daily Trojan
Feb. 16-24, 2014
Michael Dunn, Jordan Davis and America’s Racist History — February 21, 2014 via The Daily Beast
What writing feels like today — February 19, 2014 via Wright & Left
Misappropriating Malcolm X and Nicki Minaj controversy — February 18, 2014 via Madame Noire
John Singleton to direct Tupar Shakur biopic — February 17, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
On the Killing of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn — February 16, 2014 via The Atlantic
Feb. 9-15, 2014
Can South LA alleys become pedestrian-friendly parks? — February 15, 2014 via KCRW
‘Impossible Dream’ documentary film pays tribute to Tom Bradley — February 14, 2014 via Intersections | South LA
Hard Times at Howard U. — February 13, 2014 via The New York Times
Crenshaw Boulevard comes to a crossroads — February 12, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
Gov. Jerry Brown wins two-year delay in prison crowding caps — February 11, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
A turning point for Leimert Park Village — February 10, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
2014: The Year of the Intern? — February 9, 2014 via Los Angeles Sentinel
Feb. 2-8, 2014
No mom should have to bury her son — February 6, 2014 via CNN
George Zimmerman’s next big move — February 5, 2014 via Daily Beast
Happy Birthday, Facebook — February 4, 2014 via Washington Post
How much snow for a snowday? — February 3, 2014 via Huffington Post
Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2014
What Black History Month Should Be – February 1, 2014 via Huffington Post
Trial over California teacher protection laws open — January 31, 2014 via The Los Angeles Times
Committing to Play for College, Then Starting 9th Grade — January 30, 2014 via The New York Times
Schools should enforce lockdown safety drills — January 29, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Emanuel goes a bit too far with wisecrack about Abraham Lincoln — January 28, 2014 via Chicago Sun-Times
USC’s historical progression depicted in architecture — January 27, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Jan. 20-26, 2014
Most better off than parents — January 26, 2014 via Washington Post
41 times Buzzfeed told us who we are — January 25, 2014 via Washington Post
Beyond our broken dreams — January 24, 2014 via Chicago Tribune
Industry must accept bloggers’ rights — January 23, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Tim Scott Plans Black History Event With Former African-American Senators — January 22, 2014 via Roll Call
Schools should widen holiday criteria — January 22, 2014 via Daily Trojan
Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not? — January 20, 2014 via The New York Times
Jan. 13-19, 2014
Why the Snub of Fruitvale Station Hurts Most — January 19, 2014 via Slate
Smart, Poor Kids Are Applying to the Wrong Colleges — January 18, 2014 via Slate
A First Lady at 50, Finding Her On Path — January 17, 2014 via The New York Times
The Problem of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility — January 16, 2014 via The Atlantic
Colleges shouldn’t write off low income schools — January 15, 2014 via Daily Trojan
“I woke up like this” — January 14, 2014 via Salon
Jan. 6-12, 2014
Chicago’s Class — January 12, 2014 via Jonathan Lopez
Pregnant, and Forced to Stay on Life Support — January 8, 2014 via New York Times
White Supremacy Wins Again — January 7, 2014 via Salon
Dec. 30, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014
A Tragedy Compounded — January 4, 2014 via Daily Beast
Newspaper behind bars boasts compelling storytelling — January 2, 2014 via Los Angeles Times
Trayvon Martin and 2013 Revealed Harsh Reality Of Racism In America — January 1, 2014 via Huffington Post
Dec. 23-29, 2013
Beyonce’s Sample of the Challenger Explosion Isn’t As Random As You Think — December 28, 2013 via Slate
25 Documentaries That Will Make You Cry Uncontrollably — December 26, 2013 via Buzzfeed
‘I didn’t say get the story. I said get the kid his peaches’ — December 25, 2013 via Los Angeles Times
Visiting a Friend in Jail — December 24, 2013 via Caking
In planning run, Schnur will take leave of absence from Unruh — December 23, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Dec. 16-22, 2013
Life after death in Chicago — December 22, 2013 via The New York Times
The Rise of Beyonce, The Fall of Lauryn Hill: A Tale of Two Icons — December 21, 2013 via The Feminist Wire
11 News Anchor Flubs — December 19, 2013 via Daily Beast
The Real History of the Word Redskin — December 18, 2013 via Slate
There is not a red America and a blue America. There is a “y’all” America and a “you guys” America — December 17, 2013 via Washington Post
Don’t look now, Megyn Kelly, but readers say Santa can too be black — December 16, 2013 via Los Angeles Times
Dec. 9-15, 2013
At South L.A. mall, a Claus with quite an effect — December 14, 2013
Invisible Child: Reasons to Dream — December 13, 2013 via The New York Times
Invisible Child: Finding Strengths in Bonds of Family — December 12, 2013 via The New York Times
Invisible Child: A Neighborhood’s Profound Divide — December 11, 2013 via The New York Times
Invisible Child: A Future Rests on a Fragile Foundation — December 10, 2013 via The New York Times
Invisible Child: GIrls in the Shadows — December 9, 2013 via The New York Times
Dec. 2-8, 2013
The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner — December 8, 2013 via Los Angeles Times
How Chicago should honor Mandela — December 7, 2013 via Chicago Reader
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95 — December 6, 2013 via The New York Times
15 of Nelson Mandela’s Most Inspiring Quotes — December 5, 2013 via Buzzfeed
2013 in Magazine Covers and Newspaper Front Pages — December 4, 2013 via Buzzfeed
USC assists in Alzheimer’s research — December 3, 2013 via USC News
Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 2013
No More Slave Movies — November 28, 2013 via Nick Cannon
How Bulls fans should view Rose’s injury — November 27, 2013 via Bulls.com
Nov. 18-24, 2013
An Education Anything But Standard — November 21, 2013 via Wright and Left
In Places Like North St. Louis, Gunfire Still Rules the Night — November 20, 2013 via The New York Times
President Obama should never apologize for passing Obamacare — November 18, 2013 via Daily Beast
Nov. 11-17, 2013
3-D printing of guns will harm society greatly — November 17, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Offensive phrases that people still use in 2013 — November 16, 2013 via Business Insider
Are the Healthcare Website Delays President Obama’s Hurricane Katrina? — November 15, 2013 via Daily Beast
I Never Thought I’d Want To High-Five A Teacher For Yelling At A Student But I Was Wrong — November 14, 2013 via Upworthy
Media needs to reconsider coverage of mass shootings — November 13, 2013 via Daily Trojan
The Right’s Slavery Obsession — November 12, 2013 via Daily Beast
Foreign students continue to flock to U.S. colleges — November 11, 2013 via LA Times
Nov. 4-10, 2013
L.A. homicides down 13% in 2013, on pace for lowest total since 1966 — November 8, 2013 via LA Times
New Zealand teen rape cultures reveals itself on social media — November 6, 2013 via Jezebel
Out of Foster Care, Into College — November 4, 2013 via The New York Times
Oct. 28- Nov. 3, 2013
Kerry Washington addresses lack of diversity on ‘SNL’ – November 3, 2013 via Time
Lost Count: A Love Story to Victims of Chicago Violence — October 30, 2013
Asian students evaluate diversity at USC — October 28, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Oct. 21-27, 2013
Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman inspired Halloween costumes cause uproar — October 27, 2013
White House official fired for tweeting under a fake name — October 23, 2013 via Daily Beast
African-American students evaluate their place at USC — October 21, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Oct. 14-20, 2013
Not a rivalry but a microcosm of the gun violence in Chicago — October 20, 2013 via SoundFuse
Conversation can’t save us — October 19, 2013 via Makiahisms
Am I crazy or is that racist? — October 16, 2013 via Gawker
Can I Touch It?: White corporate women wear black hair styles — October 15, 2013 via Slate
University imposes sanctions on The Row — October 16, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Oct. 7-13, 2013
From Miley to Macklemore: The Privilege Spectrum — October 13, 2013 via Hip Hop and Politics
Nobel Peace Prize announced — October 11, 2013 via Daily Beast
Petraeus discusses technology — October 9, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Chris Brown and boy rape culture — October 8, 2013 via Olivia A. Cole
Calif. governor vetoes bill to allow jury duty to noncitizens — October 7, 2013 via Los Angeles Times
Sept. 30- Oct. 6, 2013
Fresh Prince take on government shutdown — October 4, 2013 via Thought Catalog
The Problem with White People — October 3, 2013 via WrightandLeft
Social media fuels Chicago gang rivalries — October 1, 2013 via Wired
Ted Cruz and other GOP congressmen lose by acting like winners — September 30, 2013 via Daily Beast
Sept. 23- 29, 2013
CPS should restore Jesse Owens’ name to Chicago public school — September 26, 2013 via Chicago Tribune
CPS student arrested after bringing gun to school to protect himself — September 25, 2013 via Chicago Tribune
Assemblymember focuses on education — September 24, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Calif. governor allows embarrassing Facebook posts to disappear — September 23, 2013 via L.A. Times
Sept. 16- 22, 2013
Pageant brings out worst in America — September 18, 2013 via Daily Trojan
Sept. 9-15, 2013
Miss America exposes America’s underlying biases, bigotry — September 15, 2013 via BuzzFeed
Sept. 2-8, 2013
Sometimes change doesn’t come easy — September 4, 2013 via Chicago Business
Need to understand the Syria conflict? Read this. — September 2, 2013 via Washington Post
Aug. 26- Sept. 1, 2013
David Frost, acclaimed journalist, dies at 74 — September 1, 2013 via Daily Beast
Though 50 years since The Dream vocalized, it still rings true — August 28, 2013 via Daily Beast
Aug. 19-25, 2013
White privilege can influence, improve race relations between peers — August 22, 2013 via Cracking the Code
African American’s hero daughters fight to keep his name on Far South Side school —August 21, 2013 via Chicago Tribune
Aug. 12-18, 2013
The high price of a dream — August 17, 2013 via The Village Free Press
Is the country ready for a female president? The First Lady thinks so. — August 16, 2013 via Huffington Post
Media mogul Russell Simmons apologizes for Harriet Tubman sex tap parody — August 15, 2013 via The Grio
Russell Simmons dishonors Harriet Tubman in sex tape parody — August 14, 2013 via Radio Facts
More children die in Chicago from violence than any other city — August 12, 2013 via Chicago Reporter
Aug. 5-11, 2013
Killed, halfway home — August 11, 2013 via Emily Hauser
From tragedy comes change — August 10, 2013 via Red Eye Chicago
Interracial couple grows as the entertainment industry changes — August 5, 2013 via The Grio
July 29- Aug. 4, 2013
Englewood railroad deal to derail southside community — August 2, 2013 via Chicago Reader
Don Lemon and the rage of the privileged class — July 31, 2013 via the Grio
America’s obsession with guns masks dark reality — July 30, 2013 via the Daily Beast
July 22-28, 2013
‘Fruitvale Station’ shows the humanity of young black males — July 27, 2013 via Associated Press
Black Congressional Caucus to hold summit in light off violence in Chicago — July 26, 2013 via MSNBC
Politicization of tragedies shift focus away from the need for urgent action — July 24, 2013 via Smartypants
Chicago Bull gives his take on his hometown’s crime, violence — July 22, 2013 via NBC Chicago
July 15-21, 2013
Why children are so much better than us with race relations — July 21, 2013 via NPR
Obama brings nation together with speech, diffuses divisiveness — July 20, 2013 via Daily Beast
Detroit files for bankruptcy in line of economy and infrastructure ruin — July 19, 2013 via Weather.com
Trayvon — July 18, 2013 via Mickey Desruisseaux
Trayvon and Chicago — July 18, 2013 via Huffington Post
On Hoodies and the ‘Talk’ — July 17, 2013 via Code Switch
The problem with focusing on ‘black-on-black’ crime — July 15, 2013 via Daily Beast
July 8-14, 2013
George Zimmerman found ‘not guilty’ of Trayvon Martin killing, next steps for family, country — July 14, 2013
White Supremacy prevails as George Zimmerman is acquitted — July 14, 2013
MLK’s Forgotten Plan to End Gun Violence in Chicago — July 9, 2013 via History News Network
Changing perspectives on internships lead to greater rewards — July 8, 2013 via Huffington Post
July 1-7, 2013
Independence Day a day to reflect, access our nation’s progress — July 4, 2013 via The Grio
Mayors still hold significance in urban communities of color — July 3, 2013 via The Grio
Reasons for why Rachel Jeantel was misunderstood in court — July 2, 2013 via Black America Web
Republicans seek to attack Clinton on age — July 1, 2013 via Daily Beast
June 24-30, 2013
Gun violence takes financial, emotional toll on the survivors — June 30, 2013 via Huffington Post
How to keep youth involved in non-profits — June 29, 2013 via The Non Profit Times
And you thought color jeans were only for teens — June 28, 2013 via Daily Beast
America still needs to reevaluate views on black women — June 27, 2013 via Melissa Harris-Perry Show
Rachel Jeantel’s testimony marks progress, lack of progress with self-love in black community — June 26, 2013 via Gradient Lair
Colourism continues to consume black community, exposes its self-hate — June 25, 2013 via Huffington Post
‘Dark Girls’ documentary opens up conversation about colourism in the black community — June 24, 2013 via Gradient Lair
June 17-23, 2013
New documentary looks to celebrate black girls, darker skin colors — June 23, 2013 via Daily Beast
Solutions to improving the lot of black men in America — June 19, 2013 via Daily Beast
Fans perceive Paula Deen’s comments as racist — June 18, 2013 via Huffington Post
Parking meter changes confuse Chicagoans — June 17, 2013 via ABC 7 Chicago
June 10-16, 2013
Homophobic comments reveal larger issue with GOP — June 14, 2013 via Daily Beast
Accepted methods to reduce poverty in the country often prove futile — June 10, 2013 via Notes of a Lawyer, Writer & Single Mom
June 3-9, 2013
How national perspective shapes international news narrative — June 9, 2013 via Global Post
First Lady’s response to heckler generates a stereotypical response — June 8, 2013 via PolicyMic
Media questions Al Sharpton’s credibility on cable news — June 7, 2013 via The Daily Beast
A look at how gun violence leaves behind living victims — June 6, 2013 via Chicago Sun Times
Michael Jackson’s teenage daughter attempts suicide after troubling text messages — June 6, 2013 via The Daily Beast
Chicago parking meter deal changes pay times, days — June 5, 2013 via Chicago Tribune
Family, friends celebrate 16th birthday of slain Chicago teen — June 3, 2013 via The Grio
May 27-June 2, 2013
Chicago revitalization to prove long-lasting, consequential — June 2, 2013
Rahm Emanuel’s seeks to fundamentally change the structure of Chicago, angers many Chicagoans — June 1, 2013
Cheerios commercial receives racist reactions — May 30, 2013
George Zimmerman’s trial to move forward without Trayvon Martin text messages — May 28, 2013
May 20-26, 2013
Where do you stand on the death penalty? — May 26, 2013
Students across the nation protest racial injustice — May 24, 2013
Three U.S. cities to explore self, new experiences — May 23, 2013
Field Trip Tragedy in Minnesota — May 22, 2013
Chicago to close most public schools in city’s history — May 22, 2013
Kanye West’s “New Slaves” urges a reevaluation of our social views — May 20, 2013
May 13-19, 2013
Is Sorry Enough?: IRS controversy rocks the White House — May 16, 2013
Reevaluating our national tragedies — May 15, 2013
Safe driving — May 14, 2013
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