Wednesday Notes: Jokic Dominates, Cherelle Parker Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia and more

Today's Events

• Miami Heat (0) at Boston Celtics (0), Wednesday, May 17th, 2023, at 8:30 PM E.T. on TNT
• Nike  Air Max 95 Black and Stadium Green, releasing Wednesday, May 17 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs
• Nike Air Jordan 5 "Craft" releasing Wednesday, May 17 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs
• Nike Air Jordan 3 Lucky Green releasing Thursday, May 18 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs
• Nike Cortez "Midnight Navy"  releasing Thursday, May 18 at 10 a.m. ET on SNKRs

Sports Roundup: Jokic dominates Lakers, Spurs win the lottery, right to draft Victor Wembanyama

Sports Roundup: Jokic dominates Lakers, Spurs win the lottery, right to draft Victor Wembanyama

Today’s Events * Miami Heat (0) at Boston Celtics (0), Wednesday, May 17th, 2023, at 8:30 PM E.T. on TNT Denver Nuggets(1) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (0): Nikola Jokic Helps Denver Nuggets Clinch 1-0 Lead Over LA Lakers in Western Conference Final Nikola Jokic recorded his sixth triple-double

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Paterson’s Hinchliffe Stadium

Paterson’s Hinchliffe Stadium

Hinchliffe Stadium, one of five still-standing Negro Leagues stadiums, is being updated and refurbished so it can be used again.

New York Amsterdam NewsKaren Juanita Carrillo

Cherelle Parker Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia

Cherelle Parker Wins Democratic Mayoral Primary in Philadelphia

If she wins the general election in November, she will be the first woman to lead the city.

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The Defining Emotion of Modern Life

There’s a moment late in Emma Straub’s novel This Time Tomorrow that I hesitate to even allude to, because reading it, and realizing what she’s been doing, is one of those experiences that suddenly casts the world into slightly sharper focus. The book offers a revelation about a defining emotion of modern life, and it surprised even Straub herself.

“What’s so funny about being a novelist is how stupid one is, really,” she told me last month over Zoom. She knew that the novel was about grief and about pre-grief, the strange purgatory of knowing that someone you love is going to die, when life feels indefinitely suspended. What she didn’t know was what the completed work would ultimately expose: that being human is largely about loss. That we lose pieces of ourselves—treasured possessions, beloved places, entire stages of our loved ones’ lives—with such regularity that we scarcely think to grieve them at all.

The Defining Emotion of Modern Life

Emma Straub’s “This Time Tomorrow” captures grief in all its forms.

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Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco?

San Francisco has proposed the nation’s most ambitious reparations plan, including $5 million cash payments and housing aid that aims to bring people back.

Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco?

San Francisco has proposed the nation’s most ambitious reparations plan, including $5 million cash payments and housing aid that aims to bring people back.

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I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships

For more and more of Orna Guralnik’s patients, the ideas behind Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are leading to breakthroughs at home.

I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships.

For more and more of Orna Guralnik’s patients, the ideas behind Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are leading to breakthroughs at home.

The New York TimesBy

Sampling and the ‘New Fela’ Complex Is the Ethical Preservation of Black Music Possible?

Equinox loses racism/sexism discrimination case

Luxury fitness gym company Equinox was found to have discriminated against and unlawfully fired fitness trainer Röbynn Europe in a trial that ended earlier this week.

Equinox loses racism/sexism discrimination case

Equinox was found to have discriminated against and unlawfully fired fitness trainer Röbynn Europe in a trial that ended earlier this week.

New York Amsterdam NewsKaren Juanita Carrillo