Macy’s and Girls Inc. believe that all girls deserve to be safe, supported, and valued. However, racial disparities continue to exist for young people when it comes to education levels, employment, and opportunities for growth. Add to that the gender divide, and it’s clear to see why it’s important for girls of color to have access to mentors who can equip them with the tools needed to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers.
Anissa Rivera is one of those mentors. Rivera is a recent Program Manager at the Long Island affiliate of Girls Inc., a nonprofit focusing on the holistic development of girls ages 5-18. The goal of the organization is to provide a safe space for girls to develop long-lasting mentoring relationships and build the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to thrive now and as adults.
Rivera spent years of her career working within the themes of self and community empowerment with young people — encouraging them to tap into their full potential. Her passion for youth development and female empowerment eventually led her to Girls Inc., where she served as an agent of positive change helping to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.
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Inspiring young women from all backgrounds is why Macy’s has continued to partner with Girls Inc. for the second year in a row. The partnership will support mentoring programming that offers girls career readiness, college preparation, financial literacy, and more. Last year, Macy’s raised over $1.3M for Girls Inc. in support of this program along with their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programming for more than 26,000 girls. Studies show that girls who participated are more likely than their peers to enjoy math and science, score higher on standardized math tests, and be more equipped for college and campus life.
Thanks to mentors like Rivera, girls across the country have the tools they need to excel in school and the confidence to change the world. With your help, we can give even more girls the opportunity to rise up. Throughout September 2021, customers can round up their in-store purchases or donate online to support Girls Inc. at Macys.com/MacysGives.
We’re living in a brave and, of course, uncertain world. That goes for movies, too. The long-held tradition — that major movies play movie theaters first, then get released to home video later — has finally been eroding. During the pandemic, some, but not all, studios threw up their hands and started doing some form of day-and-date releasing in both theaters and on streamers. But one franchise has stood its ground: The Bond movies, like the forthcoming No Time to Die, will never go the Warner Bros. route.
As per Deadline, series producer Barbara Broccoli — whose father, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, was there from the first theatrical Bond movie, 1962’s Dr. No — commented on the fact that the franchise was semi-recently sold to Amazon. There was fear that one of the biggest and splashiest film series would wind up dumped on some streamer going forward. Not so, she says.
“We focused on making the films for theatrical release,” Broccoli told Sky. “I think that’s our position. [Amazon] certainly have told us that the films will be theatrical films in the future. And we’ll see what happens.”
Broccoli also talked about how she and her fellow producers “held their nerve” throughout the pandemic, refusing to release No Time to Die, the next installment, onto any streamers, as others studios did with their wares. Indeed, the film, the 25th in the franchise, was originally supposed to be released in April of 2020. Now it’s dropping, in America at least, on October 8, about a year and a half later.
It’s been about three-quarters of a year since Donald Trump was banned from Twitter. And it’s clear he wants back on. The former president is in the midst of suing the social media giant, which was his favorite such service, and last week his lawyers issued a court filing arguing that he should be let back on for two reason: he used to be the leader of the free world, and, you know, tweeting is “addictive.”
Trump also argues that Twitter’s terms of service shouldn’t be binding because the product is addictive, leaving addicts little choice but to agree.
(The lawsuit is seeking to force Twitter to let him back on to the addictive website.) pic.twitter.com/SRMW9WA8SL
As per The Hill, the filing makes an extraordinary argument: that the terms of service, which he repeatedly violated, did not apply to him when he was booted because at the time he was President of the United States. It claims he “repeatedly used his account to report to the Citizens of the United States on virtually every aspect of Presidential activity” and that it was “a key channel for official communication.”
Ignoring that Trump often used it to air petty grievances, the filing also makes this claim: “One thing is undeniably clear in this case: Plaintiff’s account was a government account, and not a private one when he was censored,” Trump’s lawyers said in the filing.
The filing later argues that Twitter is an “addictive” service, and intentionally so, and that any seasoned user, like Trump, will blindly agree to the terms of service without reading the fine print.
Trump’s lawyers are also fighting to keep the case in Florida, where he currently resides, to California, where Twitter lives. Twitter’s terms of service indicate that all lawsuits will be argued in California. But there’s a good chance Trump’s team wants to keep it in Florida, because there that’s where far more Trump-friendly judges reside.
The former president was booted from Twitter mere days after the Capitol riots, which he arguably (or maybe not so arguably) helped foment.
The early slate in the world of college football is headlined by what should be one of the grossest games of the year. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Wisconsin Badgers are headed to Chicago for a neutral site game at Wrigley Field that will pit two tough, physical, hard-nosed teams against one another in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. Elsewhere, the SEC’s headliner this week is a fun one, as the perpetually on the cusp of breaking out Texas A+M Aggies are on the way to Fayetteville for a matchup with one of the more surprising teams of the season thus far, Arkansas.
Here’s everything slated to kick off during the early window this week. All times EST:
#2 Georgia vs. Vanderbilt, 12:00 PM, SEC Network
Villanova vs. #6 Penn State, 12:00 PM, Big Ten Network
#12 Notre Dame vs. #18 Wisconsin, 12:00 PM, FOX
LSU vs. Mississippi State, 12:00 PM, ESPN
Missouri vs. Boston College, 12:00 PM, ESPN2
Florida International vs. Central Michigan, 12:00 PM, ESPN+
New Hampshire vs. Pittsburgh, 12:00 PM, ESPN+
Richmond vs. Virginia Tech, 12:00 PM, ACC Network
Bowling Green vs. Minnesota, 12:00 PM, ESPNU
Ohio vs. Northwestern, 12:00 PM, Big Ten Network
SMU vs. TCU, 12:00 PM, FS1
Texas Tech vs. Texas, 12:00 PM, ABC
Wagner vs. Temple, 12:00 PM, ESPN+
Miami (OH) vs. Army, 12:00 PM, CBS Sports Network
Boise State vs. Utah State, 12:00 PM, CBS
Central Connecticut vs. Miami, 12:30 PM, ESPN3
UMass vs. #17 Coastal Carolina, 1:00 PM, ESPN+
San José State vs. Western Michigan, 2:00 PM, ESPN+
Toledo vs. Ball State, 2:00 PM, ESPN+
Texas State vs. Eastern Michigan, 2:00 PM, ESPN+
Maine vs. Northern Illinois, 2:30 PM, ESPN3
Washington State vs. Utah, 2:30 PM, Pac-12 Network
Colorado State vs. #5 Iowa, 3:30 PM, FS1
#7 Texas A+M vs. #16 Arkansas, 3:30 PM, CBS
#9 Clemson vs. NC State, 3:30 PM, ESPN
#14 Iowa State vs. Baylor, 3:30 PM, FOX
Rutgers vs. #19 Michigan, 3:30 PM, ABC
UTSA vs. Memphis, 3:30 PM, ESPNU
Louisville vs. Florida State, 3:30 PM, ESPN2
Illinois vs. Purdue, 3:30 PM, Big Ten Network
Kent State vs. Maryland, 3:30 PM, Big Ten Network
Wyoming vs. UConn, 3:30 PM, CBS Sports Network
Towson vs. San Diego State, 3:30 PM, Stadium
Georgia State vs. #23 Auburn, 4:00 PM, SEC Network
For the past two years, Nicki Minaj has refrained from making very many public appearances as she focused on her growing family. However, tonight at Lil Baby’s Back Outside Tour stop at Staples Center in Los Angeles, she returned to the stage for the first time to perform her verses from “Seeing Green” and BIA’s “Whole Lotta Money” remix. You can watch videos captured by attendees below. The crowd goes bananas as Nicki emerges from backstage, reasserting her presence in pop culture as a rapper instead of a controversy magnet.
Other guests that hit the stage during Lil Baby’s show included local acts Roddy Ricch, who performed his Mustard collaboration “Ballin” and his groundbreaking 2020 hit “The Box,” and Chris Brown, who performed “Go Crazy.” You can see more videos below.
There’s a reason you’re willing to pay higher prices for long-matured bourbons and it’s not because you believe they’ll be the perfect base for an old fashioned or whiskey sour. No, you buy pricey bourbon whiskeys because you plan on enjoying them neat (or at the very least on the rocks) without any other flavors muddling things.
While we enjoy a hand-crafted bourbon cocktail, we’d rather enjoy our aged Weller, Larceny, or Angel’s Envy without the addition of bitters, shrubs, tinctures, and other ingredients. No need to dress them up.
Since the end of the summer and the beginning of fall is prime whiskey sipping time, we’ve made it our goal to help you find the smoothest sipping bourbons on the market. Expressions with no rough edges to savor as the weather turns. To do this, we once again turned to the bar professionals — asking fifteen bartenders for their favorite bourbons to drink neat this time of year.
Laws Special Finish Series Four Grain Straight Bourbon Finished in Cognac Casks. This bourbon is a bourbon lover’s chocolate-covered cherry blossom that is washed gently down by a crisp, floral spice wave, right into the back of the throat with lingering vanilla, baking spice, woody raisin finish.
Straight it is a bomb of lush dark ripe fruits and southern comfort pie spices all wrapped in sugar and oak. Cut with water or ice, as I like it, it is an addictive candy with childlike temptation. Always easy to drink and always leaving you wanting one more to compliment the one you just had.
Widow Jane 10
Widow Jane
Anton Kinloch, owner of Fuschia Tiki in New Paltz, New York
Widow Jane 10 Year. Proofed down with water from Rosendale, New York not ten minutes from where we’re located. It’s made from a blend of only five barrels per batch so each variant will be a little different.
The most recent one we enjoyed reminded us of bitter almond, spearmint, some minerality from the water too.
Angel’s Envy
Angel
Pascal Pinault, director of restaurants and bars at The Confidante in Miami
My choice is without hesitation Angel’s Envy finished in port wine barrels, giving you notes of vanilla, maple syrup, ripe fruit, and a hint of Madeira at the end of the sip. It’s hard to beat this sipper for the price.
Wild Turkey 101
Wild Turkey
Ryan Anderson, complex director of beverage at Ace Hotel in New Orleans
This summer and any summer I will always reach for Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon as a great sipper. Wild Turkey is not only one of the oldest distilleries in Kentucky, but also one of the best. Creating old-style authentic Bourbon year in and year out.
Don’t get me wrong, I like to branch out once in a while to find a new spirit from a younger distiller. But most times I reach straight for the classics.
The most mellow sipping bourbon this summer will be the Woodinville Straight. The taste of chocolate, caramel, vanilla, and orange blossom makes this bourbon great to sip on its own on the rocks or in a perfect old fashioned.
When it comes to smooth sipping bourbons, I like Woodford Reserve Double Oaked. The unique barreling process creates a beautifully mellow bourbon with hints of fruit, vanilla, and spices.
Basil Hayden’s
Basil Hayden
Myles Holdsworth, director of food and beverage at The Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans
I really enjoy sipping rye whiskeys, so for me, I like bourbons with a higher percentage of rye in the mash bill. Basil Hayden’s is always a great choice and won’t break the bank. It’s sweet, mellow, filled with butterscotch, but has the spicy, peppery kick I enjoy.
Weller 12
Buffalo Trace
Christina Ramirez, mixologist at SoBou in New Orleans
I reach for a twelve-year-old W. L. Weller which is a wheated bourbon making it sweeter and lighter on one’s palate. Flavors when drinking a W. L. Weller includes caramel, dark cherry, nuts, and citrus. I personally love to drink this straight.
Maker’s Mark
Maker
Brandon Parnell, general manager and director of beverage for Flora-Bama in Perdido Key, Florida
Maker’s Mark is definitely ‘ol trusty in this equation. Red winter wheat drives this delicate but complex taste profile perfect for any occasion. It’s cheap, mellow, and available everywhere.
Larceny Small Batch
Larceny
Brian McDonough, food and beverage manager at The Tides Inn located in Irvington, Virginia
Larceny Small Batch. Even though it comes in at 92 proof, it drinks like a much lower-proof bourbon. Being a wheat bourbon, it is a more mellow drink than heavier rye mash. The honey and caramel flavors, along with the lightness of the wheat, make this a beautiful sipper. I always have a bottle in the house.
George Dickel 8 Year Old
George Dickel
Ryan Pines, beverage director at Ukiah in Asheville, North Carolina
It’s really hard to limit myself to just one bourbon. However, George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey just launched their new Dickel 8 Year Bourbon and it is absolutely amazing. It lingers on the palate, is very well pronounced in corn caramel, and is not overly done. It’s all the things you look for in a bourbon.
Milam & Greene is a small producer from Texas putting out some high-quality whiskey that has my attention. They just released their Castle Hill Series bourbon and it’s a fantastic blend of twenty vintage casks of bourbon that we’re each aged at least 13 years. It has a bold drier than typical bourbon structure that’s accented by aromas of almond, and tobacco with hints of spice.
The team there has a lengthy history of working with some of the best liquid available and there coming out of the gate strong with their new projects.
I’m not sure if mellow is the word I would use to describe this one, but W.L. Weller Special Reserve is one of my all-time favorites for sipping. It’s a wheated bourbon, which is the same style as the super popular Maker’s Mark, but I find Weller to be in a class of its own.
If you can find a bottle, pick one — or two – up.
Buffalo Trace
Buffalo Trace
Deke Dunne, master mixologist at Allegory DC in Washington, DC
When I think of mellow bourbons that are easy-sipping, my mind will always go to Buffalo Trace bourbon. Buffalo Trace bourbon, in my mind, is the ultimate introduction to Kentucky bourbon for people looking to get into whiskey. It comes in at a fairly affordable price point and it is very accessible. One of the reasons I like it so much is that it is a very fresh tasting bourbon that doesn’t feel thin or young. It is aged anywhere between 8-10 years but has light, refreshing notes that are absolutely perfect for the summer. I always get a wonderfully surprising explosion of fresh fruits, especially green apples, that balances beautifully with the more traditional bourbon notes of brown sugar, vanilla, and oak.
Balance is the name of the game for traditional Kentucky bourbons, and Buffalo Trace does it better than most. One of my go-to bourbons, especially this time of year.
Jim Beam Single Barrel
Jim Beam
Johnny Swet, master mixologist and founding partner at JIMMY at Modernhaus SoHo in New York City
I really Enjoy Jim Beam Single Barrel. It’s very smooth over Ice. But mellow enough, with hints of caramel, vanilla, and dried fruits, to be sipped neat.
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Over the past six years, it feels like race relations have been on the decline in the U.S. We’ve lived through Donald Trump’s appeals to America’s racist underbelly. The nation has endured countless murders of unarmed Black people by police. We’ve also been bombarded with viral videos of people calling the police on people of color for simply going about their daily lives.
Earlier this year there was a series of incidents in which Asian-Americans were the targets of racist attacks inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Given all that we’ve seen in the past half-decade, it makes sense for many to believe that race relations in the U.S. are on the decline.
A Gallup poll taken over the summer found that 42% of adults in the U.S. say relations between white and Black Americans are “very” or “somewhat” good, while 57% say the relations are “somewhat” or “very” bad.
This is a sharp decline from 2004 when 72% of American adults said that race relations were “very” or “somewhat” good.
However, a recent poll by Gallup has found that more Americans support interracial marriage between white and Black people than at any time in the country’s history.
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“Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people, up from 87% in the prior reading from 2013,” Gallup said. “The current figure marks a new high in Gallup’s trend, which spans more than six decades.”
When Gallup asked the same question in 1958, just 4% of Americans approved of marriage between white and Black people.
“Shifts in the 63-year-old trend represent one of the largest transformations in public opinion in Gallup’s history — beginning at a time when interracial marriage was nearly universally opposed and continuing to its nearly universal approval today,” Gallup wrote.
To show how far we’ve come, consider the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case in which the U.S. Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage. Before that decision, marriage between white and Black people was still illegal throughout the south. At the time, the decision was extremely unpopular because only 20% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.
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The big change in attitude towards interracial marriage has come from white Americans. Majorities of non-whites have approved of interracial marriage since 1968. The majority of white people didn’t come to this opinion until 1997.
Geographically, the western United States is the most accepting of interracial marriage with 97% approving and the south is the least tolerant with 93% of people supporting interracial marriage.
How do we make sense of the fact that support for interracial marriage is at an all-time high in American while, at the same time, so many believe race relations are on the decline? I think the lesson here is that when it comes to race relations anything is possible. If you were alive in 1958 it probably seemed impossible that one day just about everyone would be fine with white and Black people getting married.
That should give us all hope that if we keep fighting the good fight, eventually we’ll live in a world that is a lot less racist and a lot more loving.
The Warriors’ season starts in less than a month, and as of now, the status of their starting small forward, Andrew Wiggins, is in doubt after the NBA denied his request for a religious exemption from the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s vaccine mandate.
The NBA announced the denial in a statement on Friday, saying, “Wiggins will not be able to play in Warriors home games until he fulfills the city’s vaccine requirements.”
The ruling would prevent Wiggins from playing home games, though he theoretically could play road games in areas not governed by similar mandates. Wiggins will also be restricted from even doing solo workouts in the team facility starting in October unless he chooses to be vaccinated.
Previously, the league had said it would comply with local mandates such as this one in San Francisco, which is based upon the fact that a Warriors game counts as a large, indoor gathering and thus all in attendance must be vaccinated. Similar mandates exist in Los Angeles and New York City, where four of the league’s teams play.
With training camps opening Tuesday, the league’s rules came into question repeatedly in these markets. Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks said he expected the rule not to be a problem, but subsequent reporting indicated that star guard Kyrie Irving has not yet been vaccinated.
The NBA reportedly will not require players to be vaccinated, but depending on where they play, challenges are already cropping up for many.
Amodio’s win on Friday night was good for his 28th straight victory on the program, a streak that spans not only several guest hosts and the ill-fated run of Mike Richards but also an entire summer break between seasons. And his victory on Friday night gave him an additional $48,800 to a total that pushed into seven figures for just the third time in the long history of non-tournament Jeopardy! play.
“This was beyond my wildest dreams going in,” Amodio said according to a press release. “I knew it was a possibility, but I thought it was a very remote possibility, and to have it actually happen is unbelievable.”
Amodio is now officially in rarefied air when it comes to the show’s best champions. Though many never got the chance to string together enough wins to reach seven figures, since the five-game cap was lifted just two players have reached more than $1 million in winnings: Holzhauer and Ken Jennings. The former won 32 games and earned $2,462,216, while Jennings holds the record for both wins (74 games) and winnings ($2,520,700).
While Holzhauer reached millionaire status much quicker than both Amodio and Jennings thanks to his big betting and strategic play, Jennings’ historic run still stands as the most impressive in history. It’s unclear just how far Amodio will get on his run, but now he’s no longer known as just one of the more frustrating players in the show’s history because of his answering style: He’s officially one of the best ever.
Heroes don’t always wear capes. Some sport a viking beard with a tank top.
A video went viral on Twitter yesterday of a man who in my mind shall be called Sheep Thor. In the video, Sheep Thor steps out of his car after seeing a helpless lamb struggling to release itself from the death grip of a barbed wire fence. We see Sheep Thor step out of the car and grab both sides of the sheep with his bare hands, gently trying to pull it out.
Alas, no buck wouldn’t budge. The camera zooms in on the poor beast, still stuck in the fence, and Sheep Thor gives a narration that would fill Crocodile Hunter fans with nostalgia. “So he’s got this barbed wire here, he’s got his horns caught behind the wire…gotta be careful.” He then takes a horn and gingerly works it back through the wire. Despite Sheep Thor’s requests to “hurry up buddy,” the ram doesn’t seem too keen on aiding his rescuer.
But at last! The head comes out! Almost. Sheep Thor still has to get him over the fence safely. As Sheep Thor deliberates the best way to get the sheep over the fence. Clearly, only one choice can be made. As Sheep Thor eloquently put it, ” I’m gonna have to swing him over.”
And swing him over he does. The newly freed sheep runs off into the distance without so much as a thank you. Sheep Thor still gave a polite salute and a quick “you’re welcome.”
Seriously, where’s this guy’s nature show?
This video currently has over 13 million views. But as written below, Sheep Thor really does deserve endless tweets.
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