Culture

Let us take a moment to consider those who have been impacted most by the pandemic. Not women, who are dropping out of the workforce like flies; not people of color, who are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and live in constant fear of becoming the victims of police violence; and …

Amazon confirmed that nearly 20,000 of its employees in the United States have tested positive — or were presumed to have been positive — for Covid-19. In a blog post published Thursday night, October 1st, the company said it conducted an analysis of its 1,372,000 frontline employees and found 19,816 …

Writer, poet and producer Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. will delve into the 2020 protests against police brutality and racial inequality on a new podcast from Spotify and Gimlet, Resistance, premiering October 14th. The trailer for the series opens with Tejan-Thomas Jr. offering an honest account of his relationship with this summer’s …

Michelle Obama, her fellow co-chairs — Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monae, Chris Paul, Faith Hill, Selena Gomez, Liza Koshy, Megan Rapinoe, Shonda Rhimes, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington, and Rita Wilson — and the When We All Vote organization are on a mission to change the culture around voting …

UPDATE: Following a meeting Thursday morning, NBA players in the “bubble” outside Disney World decided to resume the playoffs, ESPN reports. However, Thursday’s games will be postponed, and while no restart date was announced, it is expected that players will return to the court Friday or Saturday. NBA players decided …

Violence sprung from violence following the police shooting of 29-year-old black man Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Sunday when an Illinois teen was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, reportedly traveled to Wisconsin to “protect” local businesses in the midst of anti-police brutality protests; he has been …

In Deb Perelman’s recent New York Times op-ed, “In the COVID-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both,” she details the impossibility of parenting small children during the COVID-19 epidemic, writing, “We are not burned out because life is hard this year. We are …

The Stonewall Inn in New York, site of the landmark 1969 riots that paved the way for the modern LGBTQ rights movement, will remain open through the pandemic thanks to a $250,000 donation. TheWashington Blade reports that the Gill Foundation, which provides grants to queer organizations across the U.S., pledged …

In the week after the protests began, I rode my bike down to Harlem. This was a few days before the deranged commander in chief tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to the dissent that had come, like those roosting chickens, to his front door. After …

UPDATE (7/9): The death of Robert Fuller, a 24-year-old Black man who was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California on June 10th, has been ruled a suicide, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as NPR reports. “There were no signs of a struggle, no defensive wounds observed, …