When Jenique Jones talks about hunger, she doesn’t start with statistics. She starts with memory. In an exclusive conversation, the WhyHunger executive director traced her understanding of food inequity back to her childhood in Harlem during the crack epidemic, a time and place that revealed how uneven access to basic needs can be, even within
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Black in Blues by Imani Perry Get This Deal $2.99 Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Get This Deal $2.99 Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Get This Deal $2.99 We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower Get This Deal $2.99 The Shattered King by Charlie N. Holmberg Get This Deal
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As Hurricane Sandy approaches New York City in 2012, 20-something Marissa works at a travel magazine promoting luxury hotels to the uberwealthy. Her editor wants her copy to make subscribers “be able to close their eyes and be there.” Indeed, readers of Tara Menon’s stunning debut novel, Under Water, will feel exactly that—as though they’re
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Why Ashley Graham Says GLP-1 Trend Is “a Smack in the Face” to Body Positivity Movement Ashley Graham is strutting into a conversation about weight loss drugs. The supermodel—who has been a longtime body positive advocate—shared her candid thoughts on how weight loss injections have affected the movement.  “It’s really disheartening,” Ashley told Marie Claire in an interview published
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The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) in partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc (CFDA), has announced the continuation of the Fashion Manufacturing Initiative (FMI) with the launch of a new Local Production Fund to support the city’s garment manufacturers. The Local Production Fund will support designers and garment manufacturers
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $2.99 The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel Get This Deal $6.99 Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson Get This Deal $2.99 Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez Get This Deal $1.99 Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson Get This
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Though the South Africa-based conservationist remains the CEO of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation, this side hustle “allows me to connect directly with my audience, create on my own terms, and just be free,” she noted. “I really do think this is the future.” For Elizabeth it will be a return to role-playing, the actress telling
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In nonfiction writer Kate Schatz’s fiction debut, Where the Girls Were (11.5 hours), she takes listeners to 1968 San Francisco, in the time before Roe v. Wade when “free love” was freer for some than for others. High school valedictorian Baker Phillips is an only child eager to please her conventional, suburban parents—until her cousin
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) celebrated 50 years of the AAFA American Image Awards last evening in New York City at the historic Gotham Hall in Midtown Manhattan. The gala honored fashion leaders from across the industry and was emceed by Emmy-winning journalist, Alina Cho. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
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When Da Brat and Jesseca ‘Judy’ Harris-Dupart answered my questions, one thing came through immediately: they weren’t interested in polishing their story for public consumption. Their new memoir, The Way Love Goes, doesn’t read like a curated highlight reel. It reads like them: unfiltered, conversational, and grounded in lived experience. And that’s exactly the point.
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Current job/former job: Former Regional Manager at Nashville Public Library Website/Social Media links:https://www.lindseyfortn.com/https://www.instagram.com/lindseypatrickwrighthttps://substack.com/@lindseyfortn https://www.facebook.com/share/1CkesKrwbf/?mibextid=wwXIfrhttps://www.tiktok.com/@lindseypatright?_r=1&_t=ZT-95jXajcq6kn Election Date: November 3, 2026 What compelled you to run for state office? I was compelled to run after speaking out against book bans at my local school board meetings—something that unexpectedly resonated far beyond our community. Those moments went viral, but
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