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People of color who moved to Texas said they were attracted by jobs and more-affordable homes. Census data indicates that in 2023, Texas led the nation in population growth, welcoming 473,000 people, the most new residents of any state. Millennials comprised 40.5% of people moving to Texas from 2021 to 2022, and Gen Zers made up about 30%. The Texas Demographic Center's analysis of the 2020 census found that 95% of the state's population growth was associated with a rise in people of color. Are you a person of color who recently moved to — or moved out of — Texas, and wants to share your story?

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Dorsey-Hollins followed school guidelines and kept her home when she had a cough or a sore throat — or worse — until she was completely better. During the pandemic, schools urged parents and children to stay home at any sign of illness. Fort Worth Independent School District, where Dorsey-Hollins’ youngest daughter attends kindergarten, advises staying home if a child has a cough, sore throat or rash. Some schools in San Diego County seem unaware of California's new guidance allowing kids to attend school while mildly sick, said Tracy Schmidt, who oversees attendance for the county Office of Education. It gives her hope that as more schools and parents learn about this guidance, students will miss less school.

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☆ After Vice Media's fall, 4 of its top marketers are starting their own agency focused on AI. Here's how they're pitching clients.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The result is Sounds Fun, which they call an AI and innovation studio and announced this month. He also said Sounds Fun would treat artists with respect, using their creative work with their consent and ensuring they're credited and compensated. One of their highest-profile projects at Virtue, and the kind of work Sounds Fun hopes to build on, was Coke's Y3000 project . For Microsoft's developer conference, Ignite, Sounds Fun worked with artists on a variety of AI experiences, including an AI vending machine that made individualized pieces of art and haikus based on people's utterances. Check out slides from the deck Sounds Fun is using to pitch marketers its work with AI and other technologies.

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The number of affordable units — with rents under $600 — also dropped to 7.2 million that year, 2.1 million fewer than a decade earlier. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesThose factors contributed to a dramatic rise in eviction filings and a record number of people becoming homeless. "It just hits you like, ‘This is for nothing.’"In Auburn, Massachusetts, pervasive rent hikes have already hit the last bastion of affordable housing. Just off an interstate alongside a pond, residents at the American Mobile Home Park face rent increases upwards of 40%. The group Lawyers For Civil Rights has sent a letter to the landlord accusing it of “unconscionable rent increases," and failing to provide critical services like adequate garbage and snow removal.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for deadly soot pollution, saying that reducing fine particle matter from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. Soot pollution has declined sharply in the past two decades, even as the U.S. gross domestic product has increased by more than 50%, Regan said. Bakersfield tied with Visalia in California's San Joaquin Valley as the most polluted city for year-round particle pollution. Wildfires in the western U.S. were a major contributing factor to increased levels of particle pollution, the report said. Six of the 10 cities with the most soot pollution were in California, and two more were in the West: Medford, Oregon and greater Phoenix.

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☆ Joy Buolamwini's 'Unmasking AI' unearths the bias in AI technologies and aims to hold Big Tech to account
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Monica Melton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Business Insider reviewed "Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines." Readers come away understanding AI, how it can perpetuate bias, and what we can do about it. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Buolamwini especially documents the coded gaze applied to facial recognition AI technologies, which serve as the subject for much of Buolamwini's research. There, 90% of tenants were people of color, mostly women and older adults — all groups that facial recognition has been scientifically proven to be less accurate on.

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In December, Shannen Doherty accused Alyssa Milano of getting her fired from the show. Writing about her time working on "Charmed," Milano added in the caption that she had "absolute certainty" that "everything was documented." "The studio, Aaron Spelling, and network made the decision to protect the international hit that was Charmed," Milano added. The drama between Milano and Doherty kicked off in December 2023, when Combs said Milano threatened to sue 'Charmed' producers if they didn't fire DohertyHolly Marie Combs and Shannen Doherty together in 2001. Three days later, Milano tweeted asking women to reply "Me Too" if they had been sexually harassed or assaulted.

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House Republicans were thrown for a loop on Tuesday when a vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border failed after four Republicans voted against it. House GOP leaders displayed confidence going into the vote despite knowing ahead of time that at least a couple Republican members were going to vote against impeachment. Republicans could try to impeach Mayorkas again once Scalise returns. GOP efforts to impeach Mayorkas were vehemently opposed by the Biden administration and the Homeland Security Department. Republican senators on Tuesday indicated that they would block a procedural vote for the bipartisan border deal this week.

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☆ Donald Trump makes final effort to convince Supreme Court he didn't engage in an insurrection ahead of oral arguments in Colorado ballot case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump filed a final brief to the Supreme Court ahead of arguments in his Colorado ballot case. Attorneys for Trump this week made a last push to convince the top court to keep him on the ballot. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case beginning on Thursday after agreeing to take up Trump's appeal. Advertisement"There was no 'insurrection,' President Trump did not 'incite' anything, and President Trump did not 'engage in' anything that constitutes 'insurrection,'" lawyers for the former president argued Monday. The Colorado Supreme Court, however, overturned that judge's ruling and proceeded to ban him from the ballot.

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☆ Republicans Scrounge for Votes to Impeach Mayorkas Over Border
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Karoun Demirjian | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But with just hours to go before the planned vote, it was unclear whether leaders would have enough G.O.P. support to charge Mr. Mayorkas. With Republicans in control of the House by a minuscule margin — and Democrats solidly opposed — they can afford no more than two defections. Two of their members have already said they will vote no, with a few others still publicly undecided. Skeptics have privately warned that if the House impeaches Mr. Mayorkas now, making him the first sitting cabinet member to suffer that fate, future Republican cabinet members could be subjected to the same treatment.

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☆ ‘Ghetto Fabulous’ on the Red Carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The rapper leaned heavily into the era at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, wearing custom Baby Phat. She arrived in a fur-lined denim jacket and a matching maxi skirt that trailed behind her as she walked the red carpet. Baby Phat was started by Kimora Lee Simmons in 1999. But in its heyday Baby Phat never had a big presence on red carpets. Since then, though, streetwear and hip-hop have only become more influential at even the most rarefied houses.

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☆ Read the pitch deck that helped Latino-focused fintech platform Suma raise $2.2 million to teach money management through videos and gaming
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Suma Wealth, a 3-year-old fintech company that combines culturally relevant content and experiences with financial tools to help Latinos build wealth, raised $2.2 million in new funding. Leading the round was Radicle Impact, which was joined by Vamos Ventures, OVO fund, and the American Heart Association Impact fund. She got the idea for Suma during the pandemic when she saw its disproportionate impact on Latinos, Acevedo told TechCrunch. Along with closing the seed round, Suma announced that it had passed 1 million users on its platforms and acquired Intellecto, a platform designed to personalize users' learning experiences. Check out the pitch deck that Suma used to raise its most recent funding.

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House Republicans have accused Mayorkas of not complying with immigration laws when it comes to the southern border. The House focused on Mayorkas as efforts to impeach President Joe Biden have been met with less enthusiasm. But due to its razor-thin majority in the lower chamber, the GOP can only lose three Republican votes to secure impeachment if all of the party is in attendance – and they’ve already lost two. The Best Political Cartoons on Congress View All 135 ImagesRep. Ken Buck of Colorado as well as Rep. Tom McClintock of California will vote against impeaching Mayorkas. “We’re whipping Republican votes,” Emmer told CNN on Monday.

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☆ How using the 14th Amendment against Trump went from a ‘pipe-dream fantasy’ to the Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

‘A sheer coincidence’The journey to the Supreme Court unknowingly began even before the insurrection itself. (In the Cawthorn case, the group partnered with a retired GOP state Supreme Court justice.) CREW appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, whose members were all appointed by Democratic governors, though they originate from a pool of candidates recommended by a bipartisan panel. Trump appealed the Colorado ruling to the US Supreme Court in early January and oral arguments are set for Thursday. “It’s embarrassing, and it shows the imbalance on our state Supreme Court,” Buck told CNN.

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☆ These 4 Republicans voted against impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, sinking the GOP's efforts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Four Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting down what would have been the first impeachment of a Cabinet official in nearly 150 years. Mayorkas' impeachment was not expected to go anywhere. But senators from both parties have repeatedly made clear that they have a particular ire reserved for Mayorkas' impeachment. Before Tuesday's vote, McClintock issued a scathing 10-page letter to his colleagues denouncing their impeachment push. "[T]aking the course outlined by the [Homeland Security Committee] is bad politics and bad policy," McClintock wrote in his letter.

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☆ How can you prevent being laid off? You can’t. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

No matter how great your performance reviews, how popular or prominent you are, how innovative or loyal you’ve been, you, too, can be laid off. They just weren’t yoursA mass layoff is often a failure of management. Plus, in deciding who to cut and who to keep, leaders have to consider what the business will need after a mass layoff in terms of skills and other capacities. Companies try to keep the number of people in the know about a pending mass layoff as small as possible for as long as possible, Williams noted.) If you survive the purge, there are steps you can take right away to protect yourself financially from a future layoff.

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☆ SATs are back. Dartmouth is the first Ivy League to reverse course after pledging to remove standardized test requirement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDartmouth is the first Ivy League to reinstate its standardized test requirement, which will go into effect for 2029 applicants. The reintroduction of the standardized test requirement was based on a research study the school's faculty recently conducted with Brown University, according to Dartmouth's president. AdvertisementHistorically, standardized test scores have reflected national inequalities, with caucasian and Asian Americans scoring higher than Black and Latino test-takers. Coffin said that the reinstatement of the test requirement may lead to a smaller number of applicants, The Dartmouth reported. MIT was one of the first colleges to reinstate its standardized test requirement after the results of a study that reviewed applicants over the last 15 years.

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☆ Why Capitol Hill is a total failure right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Zachary Wolf | Analysis Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A plague on both these houses:The Senate seems to lack the political will for a bipartisan border deal. The House lacks an effective majority for a partisan impeachment effort as GOP leaders scramble for votes. Except, as the vote approached, they seemed to realize they might not have the votes to impeach Mayorkas after all. The only other time a Cabinet member was impeached, back in 1876, it was with a unanimous House vote. With hours to go before the Mayorkas impeachment vote is set to occur, there is a real possibility it could fail, and it can only pass by the slimmest of margins.

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☆ Tour Sofia Vergara’s sumptuous LA home
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“I’m not afraid to spend money, but it has to be for something practical, not just things that are there to look good,” Vergara told Architectural Digest. "There’s just something about this place that makes guests want to stay," Vergara told Architectural Digest of her home. “I don’t like crazy jolts of color,” Vergara told the magazine of her preferred color scheme. "Every room has special flourishes to add depth and interest to the composition,” Vergara's interior designer Olivia Davies-Gaetano explained. “My friends from Colombia find any excuse to visit,” Vergara told AD.

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(AP) — Annette Bening, a two-time Golden Globe winner who recently received her fifth Oscar nomination, was feted Tuesday with a raucous parade full of colorful costumes and drag performers as part of festivities honoring her as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2024 Woman of the Year. The Pudding is the oldest theatrical organization in the nation and one of the oldest in the world. As the parade made its way through Cambridge, Bening, wearing a brown coat, hat and sunglasses, blew kisses to the crowd, and at point, was pecked on both cheeks by drag performers. Benning, who will also be roasted Tuesday night before attending a performance of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 175th production, “Heist Heist Baby,” launched into can can dance with several other people as the parade ended. “We’re absolutely thrilled to honor Annette Bening in this milestone 175th anniversary year for the Hasty Pudding,” said Josh Hillers, the organization’s president.

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☆ Opinion: The making of a Black conservative
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Opinion Coleman Hughes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

I had Black friends, White friends, Asian friends, Hispanic friends and mixed-race friends. But I didn’t think of them as “Black,” “White,” “Hispanic” and “mixed race.” I thought of them as Rodney, Stephen, Javier and Jordan. Where my White friends had the wind of White supremacy at their backs, I faced a headwind. I huddled with the Black kids in one corner of the room, and watched as the White kids, Hispanic kids and Asian kids awkwardly shuffled to their respective corners. Why were Black students in one of the most progressive, non-racist environments on Earth claiming to experience racism all the time?

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the 2024 Grammy nominees were first announced, women dominated the major categories. And at Sunday's show, those nominations translated into awards: Every televised competitive Grammy went to at least one woman. But at the Grammys, where much of the focus is on performers, it appeared like women were ruling the industry. “I know that the way the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans,” she said. SZA, who led nominations with nine, took home three awards — but was completely shut out of the general field categories.

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☆ Paris Jackson and Doja Cat just redefined what it means to get inked
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

While Jackson’s transformation was a savvy collaboration with makeup brand CoverFx, temporary tattoo camouflage has snowballed as an essential celebrity makeup technique. While shooting the Disney+ series “The Bear,” Jeremy Allen White required extensive tattoo coverage (and temporary tattoo re-application) that would withstand filming for hours in a hot kitchen. Paris Jackson was a blank canvas on the red carpet after her makeup artists spent two hours camouflaging her 80 tattoos, shown on the right. Elsewhere on the red carpet, while Rey and Jackson were disguising their ink, Doja Cat (who scooped three awards this season) went face-first into the world of — albeit temporary — tattoos. Doja Cat was covered in temporary tattoos at the Grammy awards on Sunday in Los Angeles.

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☆ How Supreme Court affirmative action decision is impacting college applicants. 'The barriers are already so high,' one legal expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The percentage of first-year applicants identifying as Black or Latino jumped 12% and 13%, respectively, year over year, outpacing other groups. At the same time, colleges are seeing an increase in first-generation applicants and international students, the Common App found. The financial aid factorFor many families, the price tag is the most significant sticking point when it comes to college access. Black households also tend to borrow more than households to finance a higher education. And because of historic racial and economic inequities, Black student loan borrowers struggle to repay their debt more than their white peers.

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☆ What’s My D.E.I. Training?My Own Life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Roxane Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Would you tell us how you are prepared to work effectively with colleagues and external stakeholders from backgrounds that are different from your own, and to contribute to our commitment to D.E.I.? I am not comfortable disclosing personal information (such as a non-visible disability, background as an immigrant, queer identity, etc.). I commended their commitment to D.E.I., not least because of the range of expertise and complementary skills it brings together. Do some research about different ways to answer this question, and think through how you can answer them using your own voice and perspective. But if there is something worth preserving in this relationship, tell your friend how her comments make you feel.

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