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Kristen Welker did not lose her composure on Sunday. That is worth saying plainly, because it…
By Leena Alridge · June 7, 2026
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The institutions, the infrastructure, and the people deciding what gets remembered — End of Day Closing…
By Leena Alridge · May 31, 2026
Opinion
They Called It ProgressNPR called it restructuring. Altman called it a correction. The EEOC called it…
By Leena Alridge · May 29, 2026
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Black men tuning out mainstream media is being framed as a political problem. The structural argument…
By Bryson Davis · May 28, 2026
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When ideology, identity, and influence are shaped in public—and monetized at scale
By Social Storytellers Collective News Desk · March 20, 2026
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How One-Sided Relationships Are Reshaping Identity, Desire, and Behavior
By Social Storytellers Collective News Desk · March 19, 2026
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How internet masculinity movements are reshaping modern dating culture—and influencing political identity.
By Social Storytellers Collective News Desk · March 18, 2026
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Whether we admit it or not, most of us have handled conflict poorly at some point…
By Will Davison Jr. · April 21, 2015
The push to identify descendants of people enslaved in the United States as a distinct Black American lineage is moving from social media into debates over reparations, Census identity and who public policy is intended to repair.
The Asos breach exposes how little control we have over the organizations—and vendors—holding our personal information.
What concerns me is how easily we’ve accepted staying afloat as a substitute for getting ahead. Pay the bills. Keep the car running. Hold on to the job. Delay the appointment. Put something toward the balance. Repeat next month.
The next phase of AI-driven workforce change may be less about machines doing individual jobs and more about companies deciding they need different organizations altogether.
The BTS leader’s SFMOMA exhibition brings Korean art into a wider conversation—and reflects a curiosity that left an impression on me.
Employers say they need workers with more skills and experience. At some point, we have to ask who is supposed to give workers the opportunity to acquire them.
Reports say the actor lost roughly 200,000 Instagram followers after comments about American work ethic triggered a wider argument about Black Americans, immigration and who gets to critique whom.
What a Kroger closure in Houston reveals about how access is being quietly reshaped — not in the places we expect, but in the spaces between them.
The reaction to their 21-year age gap is about more than two numbers. It sits at the intersection of gender, power, race, celebrity and a persistent question about whether we actually trust young women to make choices we would not make ourselves.
I went to New York to bury my uncle. I came home realizing that my cousins and I had just watched the family hierarchy change in real time.
Cornell William Brooks and Kevin Roberts argued over DEI. The more important question is who has to prove discrimination still exists once the government stops looking for it.
Economic growth and investment-grade ambitions are being built alongside mass Haitian deportations, revealing who gets counted in national progress and who gets removed from it.