Shoutout to the Republicans who voted to cut a federal program that feeds pregnant women and young children on Thursday then go to church on Sunday.
You're the real hypocrites.
It’s so hard, but the thing my dad did for me was that he never let me go. As much as I tired to run I always knew he was waiting. And I know I tortured him. It still makes me cry to think about what I put him through. But I came back. And he was where he always was waiting to love me.
Happy Birthday to poet, author and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks was the first Black person to receive a Pulitzer Prize. ✊🏿📚 She was also the first Black woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Marcia Hutchinson's novel was rejected 54 times before a small Black-owned publisher said yes.
Now The Mercy Step has been shortlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Hutchinson says race may have been a factor in her book getting rejected so many times.
Sharon Stone says she spent her life waiting to hear three words from her mother:
"I'm proud of you" and "I love you"
Even at the very end, she was still hoping.
One of the more emotional moments from our conversation on The Person Who Believed In Me.
#BREAKING: Hayes: NYTimes describes the woman making the most serious allegations against Platner as ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns…she has made statements supportive of @SenatorCollins, she’s linked to a conservative group that has worked with Collins…’”🙄