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*“Beverly Johnson made history in 1974… [as] the first African-American woman… whose face appeared on the cover of the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine… Vogue. Beverly shattered the ideological standards of beauty in a commercial domain, introducing a whole new paradigm not only for black women, but for the world… as a whole. Beverly should […]

[…] and anti-Semitism are real in this country, and we need to confront those forces.” — Excerpted from the preface of “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey” (pages xiv-xv) Kamala Harris has officially thrown her hat in the ring for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, launching her campaign with a spirited rally in her hometown of […]

*On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) hosted a reunion in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick, a tiny island just 150 yards off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The gathering was in honor of the Boiler Room Girls, a half-dozen women who had worked on his late brother Bobby’s aborted presidential campaign the […]