Sunday's Best Deals: Pool Party Essentials, Backcountry, Breville, Shifu Orboot, and More
Happy Sunday! Finish off your weekend with discounted pool party essentials, Backcountry’s 4th of July sale, a Breville juicer, and the rest of the best deals from around the web.
#PermitPatty: White Woman Calls Police on 8-Year-Old Black Girl Selling Water, Says She Was Tired of the Noise [Update]
Update: June 23, 2018 6:17 p.m EDT: The woman appropriately dubbed #PermitPatty has been identified as Alison Ettel, who owns a weed for dogs business in San Francisco. But get this, Ettel, in an interview with Huffington Post, says she was not motivated racially to snitch on the 8-year-old, but was tired of hearing…
BET Awards: I'm Too Old For This
I turn 42 in August, and although I’m often mistaken for a 20-something millennial (thank you coconut oil and good genes), my inner-being is that of an old black lady. If you took the DNA of Dorothy from Golden Girls, Daria Morgendorffer, Richard Pryor and Thanos, you basically have me. I’m kind of cutthroat and take…
Michelle Obama's Memoir Will Be A 'Re-Humanization Effort'
Former First Lady Michelle Obama told the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference audience, in New Orleans, that her upcoming memoir “Becoming” will be a “re-humanization effort” that shares the “ordinariness of a very extraordinary story” that she hopes will give voice to people who feel voiceless, the …
Melania Trump vs. Ivanka Trump: Who Is the Beckiest of Them All?
When it comes to public displays of privilege, perhaps there are no two greater examples of the entitlement that accompanies whiteness than Melania and Ivanka Trump. They are hailed as accomplished, successful icons of feminism and flawless beauty based solely on their achievements in the lucrative field of being…