Most history classes around the United States learn about how White students hounded James Meredith in 1962 when he tried to integrate the University of Mississippi. They might see the footage of Governor George C. Wallace barring Foster Hall to prevent two Black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama a year later. These moments demonstrate both the persistent hopes for equal access to education and the barriers to achieving them.
Unless you’ve been trapped in a plastic toy box, there’s no escaping the Barbie-core movement that’s sweeping the globe — and potentially contributing a nationwide shortage of the color pink.
The marketing department at Warner Bros. has been working in overdrive to entice the masses for Greta Gerwig’s cotton candy-colored fantasy “Barbie,” which has been all but inescapable this summer. A key factor has been a dizzying array of partnerships with products that range from a bright fuchsia Xbox (for STEM Barbie) to this $1,350 Balmain cropped hoodie (for Disposable Income Barbie).
Best Cold Plunge Tub picks of 2024
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If you pride yourself on an active lifestyle, or have friends and family members who have one, then you’ve likely heard of taking a cold plunge. It’s a popular therapy among athletes, both amateur and professional. However, you don’t have to be a highly-trained, elite professional athlete to enjoy the benefits of a cold plunge. In fact, this type of therapy is available to almost everyone, no matter what their budget.
When it hit the shelves: July 2, 1998 What happens in the book: After a summer spent with the Dursleys, Harry is excited to return to Hogwarts. An unexpected visitor, the house elf Dobby, tries in vain to prevent Harry from returning to Hogwarts by getting him to illegally perform magic outside of the school. The Ministry of Magic blames Harry anyway, and the Dursleys confiscate Harry's books and wand.
Wandering eyes at the office leave some women searching for a cleavage shield. Safety pins provide a temporary fix, though they often break apart or rip into clothes. The Cami Secret is every woman's low-cut curtain. The comfortable lace cover is flowerpot-shaped, complete with the contours to cover the fullest of figures. For those wary of the add-on falling, the Cami Secret hooks onto your bra, serving as a full-day bodyguard at the office.
CEO of the Year 2023: Sam Altman
2024-08-10
It was a strange Thanksgiving for Sam Altman. Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family. But this time the holiday came after an existential struggle for control of a company that some believe holds the fate of humanity in its hands. Altman was weary. He went to his Napa Valley ranch for a hike, then returned to San Francisco to spend a few hours with one of the board members who had just fired and reinstated him in the span of five frantic days.
Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 23, 1944
2024-08-10
To Have and Have Not (Warner), having jettisoned a solid 90% of the Ernest Hemingway novel, for which Warner Bros, paid plenty, may make devotees of Hemingway the sourest boycotters since Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised—for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)—results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME, Nov.
As the National Museum of African American History and Culture prepares to open, its staff is preparing a vast collection of artifacts and documents for display—but, though the museum won’t officially open until next year, a new series of books offers a sneak peek at its photography collection. The second book in the Double Exposure series, Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality, will be available July 7. (The first came out earlier this year.
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