Devin Booker

Tuesday Notes: Lamar Jackson, Devin Booker and more

Three-time All-Star Devin Booker is finally getting his first Nike signature shoe — the D Book 1 — set to release in Spring 2024, as Lamar Jackson's future remains the week's biggest sports story.

Kamala Harris

Monday Notes: Kamala visits Ghana, Lebron James, Luka and Kyrie, Chuck D and more...

Kamala Harris tours a former slave port in Ghana as the US works to deepen ties with Africa, while LeBron James' I Promise School in Akron adds housing, job training, and healthcare.

Nike Air Max 1

Sunday Notes: Happy Air Max Day

Nike celebrates Air Max Day by bringing back the Air Max 1 '86 Original "Big Bubble" — a faithful recreation of the shoe that started visible Air, engineered using CT scans of surviving originals.

Friday Notes: Carl Lewis, Jack Dorsey, and more

LeBron James' Uninterrupted produces a Carl Lewis documentary, Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. vows to fight Hindenburg Research's short report, and BET's streaming future looks murky.

Metro Boomin

Thursday Notes: The State of the Black Press

In 1933, NFL owners secretly banned Black players; thirteen years later, Black journalists helped force reintegration — a history explored alongside the current state of the Black press.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Wednesday Notes: Off-White, RIP Willis Reed and more

Off-White's Spring/Summer 2023 campaign, conceived by Ibrahim Kamara, drops as Wednesday Notes also marks the passing of Willis Reed — two-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer.

Tuesday Notes: Colson Whitehead, Mindy Kaling

The BLAAC PD study — which tracks Parkinson's Disease in Black and African American communities — is expanding to new clinical sites, a breakthrough in health equity research.

Donna Summer

Monday Notes: Donna Summer, A New cold war in Africa, and more

A new Donna Summer documentary reveals the darkness behind her disco persona — "You're looking at me, but what you see is not what I am" — opening Monday Notes alongside US-Africa geopolitics.

Karen Bass

Sunday Notes: Karen Bass, Education, Real Estate Appraisals & the Air Movie

New Yorker writer Emily Witt profiles Karen Bass on fighting homelessness and reforming the LAPD as Sunday Notes also digs into discriminatory real estate appraisals and the upcoming Air movie.

Amaarae

Saturday Notes: KAWS, Amaarae, Gov. Wes Moore

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore pledges "the most full assault on child poverty" in the state's history, while Saturday Notes also spotlights artist KAWS and Ghanaian pop star Amaarae.

Tiwa Savage

Friday Notes: Tiwa Savage, NASA, The Roots...

Friday Notes argues it's long overdue to give Tiwa Savage her flowers — a force who has consistently pushed the scales toward equity in the male-dominated Afrobeats landscape.

Sarkodie

Thursday Notes: Hip-Hop at Fifty, Defining race...

Hip-hop turns fifty this year — and Thursday Notes explores the genre's origins alongside the sobering math that a $100,000 salary in New York City is worth less than $36,000 after taxes and cost of living.