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What Kamala Harris Learned About Power at Howard
Lita Rosario remembers when she first noticed the girl named Kamala.
Ms. Rosario, a senior at Howard University in 1982, was the only woman
on the school’s debate team. Kamala Harris, a freshman, was earning a
reputation at the Punch Out, a gathering place where students would
argue the topics of the time — civil rights, apartheid in South Africa
and the school’s complicated relationship with President Ronald
Reagan. Ms. Harris had substance, but Ms. Rosario was impressed by her
style. A confidence, an intensity, a level of preparation that was
rare for new students. “She was so spirited and cogent in her
arguments,” Ms. Rosario said. “I remember her enthusiasm. And I mostly
remember that she was never intimidated.” As a student at Howard...
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(source: The New York Times)
We depend on essential workers. Many are on DACA—and face a precarious future.
IN MANY WAYS, Gisel Villagómez is a typical resident of Southern
California. She lives in Huntington Park, a suburb of Los Angeles
known for its unassuming homes with lawns and concrete driveways. And
she carries herself with an attitude that announces, “Don’t mess with
me just because I’m a Latina woman.” When COVID-19 hit California in
the spring, Villagómez was employed as a manager at her sister’s
garment factory. Suddenly, she found herself in the role of “essential
worker.” Shelter-in-place orders forced most California manufacturing
plants to shut down, but Villagómez and her sister kept their shop
open, producing more than 180,000 masks and 100,000 protective gowns.
(Discover how Latinos are shaping America’s future.) While she worked,
Villagómez faced another, more private drama: the renewal of her
immigration status. In the 1980s, when she was two years old, her
Mexican mother carried her across the U.S. border. Villagómez, now 34,
has been undocumented ever since...
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(source: National Geographic)
How the death of business travel will change your next vacation
If you ever brought your spouse with you to a conference in Las Vegas,
tacked on a weekend in the Keys after a site visit in Miami, or took
in the Christmas markets in Salzburg following a meeting in Munich,
you were part of a burgeoning trend in travel: the bleisure trip. A
loosely defined category where business and leisure converge, bleisure
typically refers to a person vacationing at a destination before or
after visiting for a work-related purpose. A 2016 survey by Expedia
Group Media Solutions found that bleisure travelers worldwide turned
43 percent of their business trips into vacations. That figure
increased to 60 percent by 2018, with an average extension of close to
three nights. Younger professionals were particularly fond of the
practice: In 2019, a National Car Rental survey reported that 90
percent of millennial business travelers added ....
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(source: National Geographic)