1. Tuesday Notes for August 12th, 2025
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    Tuesday Notes for August 12th, 2025

    Tuesday's digest for August 12: Kith announces its first runway show since 2019, Black attorneys general unite to protect civil rights, plus this week's sneaker drops and sports moves.

    ·3 min read
  2. Monday Notes for August 11th, 2025
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    Monday Notes for August 11th, 2025

    Monday's digest for August 11: Lupita and Junior Nyong'o's 'Twelfth Night,' the Japan-only Air Jordan 5 Tokyo23 dropping August 23, Tyler's Converse 1908 launch, and this week's top reads.

    ·4 min read
  3. Friday Notes for August 8th, 2025
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    Friday Notes for August 8th, 2025

    Friday's digest for August 8: the Manhattan DA's office returned 34 stolen antiquities worth $4M+ to Spain, Italy, and Hungary—including a 1st-century marble head of Alexander the Great—plus this week's sneaker and sports reads.

    ·4 min read
  4. Thursday Notes for August 7th, 2025
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    Thursday Notes for August 7th, 2025

    Thursday's digest for August 7: a Ghana Air Force Z-9 helicopter crashed in Ashanti on August 6, killing eight people including two cabinet ministers, plus this week's sneaker drops and sports moves.

    ·3 min read
  5. Wednesday Notes for August 6th, 2025
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    Wednesday Notes for August 6th, 2025

    Wednesday's digest for August 6: James Beard winner Kwame Onwuachi opens Las' Lap Miami at The Daydrift hotel in South Beach—the second location of his New York rum bar concept—plus this week's reads.

    ·4 min read
  6. Tuesday Notes for August 5th, 2025
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    Tuesday Notes for August 5th, 2025

    Tuesday's notes cover Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's fifth collaboration, Metro Boomin's summer tape, and a few other things worth knowing on August 5th.

    ·3 min read
  7. Monday Notes for August 4th, 2025
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    Monday Notes for August 4th, 2025

    Monday's notes lead with the Black unemployment rate topping 7% as the White House defends removing a labor data official — plus the rest of August 4th's cultural briefing.

    ·3 min read
  8. Friday Notes for August 1st, 2025
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    Friday Notes for August 1st, 2025

    Friday's notes cover Kamala Harris's post-election TV diet, Metro Boomin's A Futuristic Summa drop, and Bad Bunny joining Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS in Formula 1.

    ·3 min read
  9. Wednesday Notes for July 30th, 2025
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    Wednesday Notes for July 30th, 2025

    Wednesday's notes lead with a new collection of Okwui Enwezor's writings from Duke University Press — essential reading on curatorial thinking and cultural scale.

    ·2 min read
  10. Tuesday Notes for July 29th, 2025
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    Tuesday Notes for July 29th, 2025

    Tuesday, July 29: Philadelphia honors Teddy Pendergrass with a street renaming, BlackStar Film Festival opens in Philly, and Supreme x Nike Air Force 1 Fall 2025 drops.

    ·4 min read
  11. Monday Notes for July 28th, 2025
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    Monday Notes for July 28th, 2025

    Monday, July 28: Ghana mourns highlife legend Daddy Lumba at 60, Nike KD 18 Halloween drops, and Shedeur Sanders addresses his two speeding citations at Browns camp.

    ·4 min read
  12. Saturday Notes for July 26th, 2025
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    Saturday Notes for July 26th, 2025

    Saturday, July 26: African Diaspora Goods SS25 drops in SoHo, Pharrell’s JOOPITER debuts its first watch auction, and Tyla x Wizkid release their collab ‘Dynamite.’

    ·8 min read