When Between the World and Me landed on bookshelves five summers ago, it had just one blurb, from Toni Morrison. The late standard-bearer called Ta-Nehisi Coates’ breakout second book, the follow-up to his 2008 memoir The Beautiful Struggle, “required reading.” For people all around the world, that’s what it became. …
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No one had a better front-row seat to the historic presidency of Barack Obama than Pete Souza. The chief official White House photographer, Souza traveled everywhere Obama went to document both terms of America’s first black president. Given extensive access to the public and private lives of the Obamas, he …
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“I think politics is purposefully made to feel overwhelming,” Megan Rapinoe says from her hotel room in the “WNBA bubble.” The co-captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team had just finished a week of strict quarantine in the middle of Florida and joined her girlfriend, WNBA star Sue Bird, in …
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