A Starbucks manager in Philadelphia called the police on two black men on April 12, leading to their arrest. The two men, who had been waiting for a friend at the store, were released without being charged. Starbucks has since apologized and announced it will close more than 8,000 of its stores in the […]

New research shows double majors have a big competitive advantage in one critical area. fizkes/Shutterstock Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University and Benjamin S. Selznick, James Madison University Two college majors are better than one. That is the conclusion that researchers are beginning to reach. Prior research has already shown that students who double […]

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Hannah Upp disappears for weeks at a time, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found? Hannah had been missing for nearly two weeks when she was seen at the Apple Store in midtown Manhattan. Her friends, most of them her former classmates from Bryn Mawr, had posted a thousand flyers about her […]

Black Panther will break Saudi Arabia’s 35-year long cinema ban, becoming the first film publicly shown in theaters in the conservative gulf kingdom since they were shuttered in the 1980s. Read more about the Black Panther at Time.

It’s hard to trust the news in 2018. People rely on non-biased reporting from journalists. If it’s not tainted local news coloring people’s opinions, it’s social networks that serve the exact kind of news it thinks people want to see. The AI startup Knowhere says it knows how to disrupt news: by letting readers choose […]

As immigrant connections become more distant, the share of Latino parents in the U.S. who speak Spanish to their children has declined. Read more about how language impacts Hispanic identity across the generations. Pew Research.

John Legend and Jessee Williams are known mainly as, respectively, a Grammy-winning R&B singer and a lead actor on ABC’s long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. But they are also outspoken about racial injustice and the continuing struggle for civil rights. They say “America is cool because of black people. Our music is black. Our aesthetic […]

Technology has a powerful influence on our identity and society. In a fascinating interview with Wired’s Nicholas Thompson, French president Emmanuel Macron explains why he is making big investments to bring France into the “winner takes all” race with the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. Read more from Axios