Adrienne Gibbs

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My Grandpops, Richard Wright, and the Chicago Post Office

Not all history makes headlines, and that’s okay — It wasn’t until I was a grown woman that I fully realized the significance of my grandfather working alongside — and befriending — a guy named Richard Wright at the Chicago post office. My pops, a church elder, and Wright, a writer becoming, were both sorters at the old main…

Hidden History

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My Grandpops, Richard Wright, and the Chicago Post Office

Hidden History

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How Kelly Rowland Balances Music-Making and Motherhood

Rowland’s New EP ‘K’ Releases Today, Plus She’s Not Rushing the ‘Snap Back’ Body After Birth of Baby Noah — Kelly Rowland is celebrating her 40th birthday, a new baby, a new clothing line, and her new music release K, a soul-confirming, five-bop, melanin-popped dance-in-your-house-naked-during-Covid jaunt into fun and discernment. She is poised to talk about this record when her littlest co-worker decided he had something to say. Newborn Noah…

Culture

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How Kelly Rowland Balances Music-Making And Motherhood

Culture

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones Is Ditching Humility, and So Should You

Her new book, ‘Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual,’ is a guide to embracing your greatness — Luvvie Ajayi Jones is proof of what happens when you pair 18 years of blogging and writing with tenacity and synchronicity. She went from working for the man to being the woman, with a 14,000-member app, her own social network, a popular TED Talk, and now what is sure to…

Books

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones Is Ditching Humility, and So Should You

Books

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I Broke the ‘Pay It Forward’ Line

If only I had brought my wallet with me to the drive-thru — I vacillate on whether to apologize or stand my ground regarding what happened that day, a year ago. Yet what’s done is done and it is what it is. Here’s what happened. I drove to my local Dunkin’ Donuts, ordered a small coffee and a cinnamon raisin bagel. Toasted with…

Mindfulness

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Mindfulness

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‘Own Your Voice’: Jennifer Hudson on Aretha Franklin and ‘Respect’

The star of the Queen of Soul biopic has the perfect advice for women who lead. — For Jennifer Hudson, Respect is not just another movie where she stars as a famous person who sings. For this biopic, she embodies her idol, Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. …

Celebrity

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‘Own Your Voice’: Jennifer Hudson on Aretha Franklin and ‘Respect’

Celebrity

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Nov 2, 2022

A Plan To Manifest Better Sleep

My top takeaways from “Make Sleep Your Superpower” in advance of my Friday, Nov. 4 public interview with Medium author Robert Roy Britt — I’m reading an advance copy of Make Sleep Your Superpower, the latest book by esteemed science journalist Robert Roy Britt, who is also a top writer here on Medium. And this book, much like James Clear’s Atomic Habits, is chock full of good, actionable advice that is super easy to…

Sleep

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Sleep

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Sep 6, 2022

Who Gets To Survive the Future?

Author Douglas Rushkoff talks billionaires, escape pods, his new book + the Medium essay that kicked it all off. Join us LIVE on Sept. 9, 2022 — Dune. Westworld. Detroit: Become Human. The Handmaid’s Tale. The Hunger Games. We’ve all read, seen, played, heard about, or lived through some version of a dystopian future. But for Medium writer, author, and renowned public intellectual Douglas Rushkoff, the ideas touched upon in a variety of seemingly lighthearted entertainments —…

Future

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Future

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Aug 2, 2022

2 Hidden Pioneers of the Data Industry

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Brandeis Marshall

This is important! Thanks for pulling this together for us all.

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This is important! Thanks for pulling this together for us all.

Jul 15, 2022

🐝Evacuating 25,000 Honey Bees Out My House🐝

After they entered the kitchen, they had to go — There have always been birds and bees in my house. Since I was little, they lived in the corner of the third floor, entering into a chewed out hole in the soffit where it meets the brick on the corner facing the morning sun. …

Bees

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Bees

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·May 2, 2022

The Bridgerton Ball: I Met Duke Hastings and Danced the Night Away

I’ve always wanted to attend a period-specific ball. With the big gown, fancy shoes, live orchestra, dainty dancing, beautifully mixed liquor creations, and flowers. Lots and lots of flowers. The closest I’ve ever gotten to that was a combo of three unforgettable events: a beautiful black tie wedding on South…

Bridgerton

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Bridgerton

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