Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:

Climate change has put the coffee-growing regions of Puerto Rico directly in the path of repeated hurricanes. It takes 4-5 years for a coffee plant to start producing fruit, and they don't start REALLY producing until year 7. Younger trees are delicate and vulnerable to hurricane winds.

New York employers must now offer paid medical leave during pregnancy

been alive a quarter of a century+ …

NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency. “After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”

Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Mississippi, maintains the only active database of sundown towns in the United States

Ain’t That A Pitch?! this week on #TheRead

In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

Scoop: Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an editorial that was critical of Trump's Cabinet picks, weeks after he blocked a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris by the LAT editorial board www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...

NEW: In my report for HuffPost, I speak to D.C. drag queens and take a look at the fight in our courts to keep this form of expression protected under the First Amendment - whether Trump or his judges like it or not! I hope you will read and share! www.huffpost.com/entry/future...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund

Green & Black this week on #TheRead

France's government has collapsed after historic no-confidence vote in parliament

Abbott elementary starts at 8pm this week with an hour long special. Please spread the word! 🎄 🫡

Precious Lee for CAP 74024 lensed by Kévin Drelon.

no thoughts, just holidays

mabelline? why can’t you be true?

When Albuquerque made their bus system—including their bus rapid transit lines—free, not only did ridership jump it was actually found to be more cost effective.

Sigh. WMATA undertaking a bus fare enforcement initiative at the same time they’re announcing a diminishment of bus service is just the perfect encapsulation of our times.

and you know what? i will squabble up

Kendrick Lamar just dropped the music video for "Squabble Up"

Dictionary.com crowns “demure” as the Word of the Year.

sometimes i take a day off just to turn you ooonnnnnnn

pouting is an important part to how i get things done

me saying “today drained me” about every single date in November

don’t put your hands in these weird niggas baby!

the drugs coming for his ability to type and process english huh

there’s some whores in this house

this nigga us fuckin crazy

couldn’t beat me with a brush and a palette

black women in email factories

Like A Hood Neighbor... this week on #TheRead

ain’t outdressin me on the top of a salad AH👅

like what else are we supposed to do

Linda McMahon, the former CEO of WWE and Trump's pick for education secretary, is being sued for allegedly allowing the sexual abuse of children

having it all doesn’t mean having every single thing at all times. to me, it means being excited and having signs from the universe that the things i want want me back

A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas. It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter. fox59.com/news/indycri...

idk, a nigga like me wants noodles and soup for breakfast lunch and dinner

why does everyone hate progress

i’m about to get sexier in a holistic way. like my aura’s about to become sexy and not in the way TikTok uses aura

i need the sound waves to kiss me

I really enjoy when Tracee Ellis Ross posts

send me the pillow that you dream on, so that i can dream on it too ♡

waitttt, this app is Meg act 2 coded