On Point
A new get-out-the-vote effort focusing on women of color hopes to add marginalized voices into the presidential contest She the People is believed to be the first-ever national voter mobilization effort focused solely on women of color and aims to create a "national political home" for a demographic which has felt overlooked by Democratic party politics of late. "This is a very direct, strategic path to win electoral votes," She the People founder Aimee Allison tells NBC News. Allison says to expect an intersectional approach; the effort will also target Asian American, Latina, and younger women voters, all of whom are excluded from the traditional focus on white, working-class voters. "We're in essence applying on a national scale some of the lessons learned by the Stacey Abrams race in Georgia," Allison says.
NBC News
Today in zero tolerance and chicken wings… Two of the patrons who had been part of a group asked to move away from a racist customer at a Naperville, Chicago-area Buffalo Wild Wings held a news conference at St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church in Aurora, yesterday. Justin Vahl, of Montgomery, and Marcus Riley, of Joliet, along with attorney Cannon Lambert, told their story. Then, they asked for, among other things, better screening of employees, better "zero tolerance" training, a racial bias employee hotline, break room anti-bias signage, and a broader system of accountability. The company is reportedly making a host of changes; the two employees involved in the initial incident have been fired and the customer has been banned for life from all Buffalo Wild Wings stores.
Chicago Tribune
Richard Spencer's vile racist rant is caught on audio in a not-particularly dapper way The audio was posted online by rival in vileness Milo Yiannopoulos, purportedly recorded at an emergency meeting following the "Unite The Right" rally that killed Heather Heyer and injured many others in Charlottesville in 2017. Spencer, who had gone to great effort to make white supremacist ideas seem mainstream and acceptable, can allegedly be heard screaming racist and anti-Semitic slurs. Click through for the entire messy diatribe, and never forget how hard he tried to make himself seem like an eligible bachelor with some unusual ideas. He had quite a bit of help.
Vox
On Background
Survey Monkey turns 20, board member Serena Williams helps them celebrate It's hard to believe that the tech survey company has been around this long. Their first-ever promotional video was created in-house by two women—Lydia Baillergeau and Lara Belonogoff—who wanted it to reflect the company's overall commitment to diversity and how they can play a role in helping others create a more inclusive workplace and world. But Williams's starring role is a sign that she is continuing to increase her leadership footprint in deliberate and interesting ways. A side note: To date, Serena Ventures has invested in more than 30 portfolio companies, 60% of which are led by a diverse group of non-majority culture founders.
YouTube
California quietly returns land belonging to the Wiyot Duluwat Island is known by many names, sometimes it's called Tuluwat Island, others, like Google Maps, refer to it as Indian Island. The mile-long marshy paradise sits in the middle of California's Humboldt Bay. But now, if you visit, there is no need to make a land acknowledgment statement. After a century of wrangling the land now belongs to the Wiyot people again, signed over by the city of Eureka in what the National Congress of American Indians calls the United States' "first known voluntary municipal land return achieved without sale, lawsuit, or trade."
CityLab
Study: One in five teens can't finish their homework because of a lack of internet access It's a real problem that's not getting any better. Roughly one-third of low-income families with kids ages 6 to 17 don't have access to high-speed internet, a gap that disproportionately falls on Hispanic and black families. From the study: One-quarter of black teens say they are at least sometimes unable to complete their homework due to a lack of digital access, including 13% who say this happens to them often. Just 4% of white teens and 6% of Hispanic teens say this often happens to them. Pew Research
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