1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Friday Notes for July 25th, 2025
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    Friday Notes for July 25th, 2025

    Amy Sherald withdrew 'American Sublime' from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting depicting a Black transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty.

    ·3 min read
  9. Thursday Notes for July 24th, 2025
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    Thursday Notes for July 24th, 2025

    Ralph Lauren drops the limited-edition Oak Bluffs collection honoring Martha's Vineyard's Black cultural legacy, NBCU explores a new sports cable network, and WNBA camp notes round out Thursday.

    ·9 min read
  10. Wednesday Notes for July 23rd, 2025
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    Wednesday Notes for July 23rd, 2025

    Barkley L. Hendricks gets a deserved spotlight, Betaworks closes $66M for AI builders, the WNBA All-Star Game loses steam without Clark, and the Uristocrat Job Board launches today.

    ·4 min read
  11. Tuesday Notes for July 22nd, 2025
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    Tuesday Notes for July 22nd, 2025

    Trump releases 230,000 pages of MLK Jr. FBI documents, a judge sentences a former Louisville officer in the Breonna Taylor raid, and UNDEFEATED announces its Air Jordan 4 20th-anniversary drop.

    ·3 min read
  12. Monday Notes for July 21st, 2025
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    Monday Notes for July 21st, 2025

    Uristocrat Daily Notes on finance, music, sneakers, and sports. Today: VantageScore for home loans, Tyler The Creator drops 'Don't Tap The Glass,' plus NFL news including JC Tretter's resignation from the NFLPA and the Eagles' Super Bowl championship ring ceremony

    ·5 min read