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The Real Reason to Support BIPOC Brands

After her wedding, Deesha Dyer didn’t share just glamor shots and videos on her social-media feeds. She posted a list of the vendors and small businesses she’d worked with, and proudly declared that 85% were some combination of “Queer owned & operated, Asian owned & operated, Black owned & operated, Women owned & operated, Hispanic owned & operated, Veteran owned & operated.” This note by Dyer, the CEO of the social-impact consulting company Hook & Fasten, is emblematic of a broader cultural push over the past few years to buy BIPOC, an acronym which stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

The Twisty Ending of 'Apples Never Fall,' Explained

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Apples Never Fall For the better part of Apples Never Fall, which dropped in its entirety this week on Peacock, the Delaney family—siblings Troy (Jake Lacy), Amy (Alison Brie), Logan (Conor Merigan-Turner), and Brooke (Essie Randles) and their father, Stan (Sam Neill)—has sought answers around why their beloved matriarch, Joy (Annette Bening), mysteriously disappeared. When their search for Joy turns from a missing persons report to a potential murder case that posits Stan as the main suspect after a recording of a heated (and seemingly violent) argument between them surfaces, tensions within the family flare, revealing secrets and long-held resentments between the siblings and their father.

Trader Joe's and Harris Teeter are recalling hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of pizzas and bur

Trader Joe's is dealing with another recall. On Sunday, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Bakkavor Foods USA, Inc. is recalling 795,261 pounds of products. The products — a pizza and three types of burrito — contain an The recalled products include: ADVERTISEMENT The items were produced between September 27 and October 15. The FSIS has more information on how to identify whether a product has been recalled on its website.

Two Bolts of Lightning Strike One World Trade Center

May 23, 2014 11:10 PM EDT As a thunderstorm passed over New York City Friday night, photojournalist Gary Hershorn captured two bolts of lightning hitting the spire on top of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. A seasoned photographer and photo editor, Hershorn described how he captured the photo: “I saw the storm clouds forming while I was shooting some pictures of lower Manhattan from Jersey City right across from One World Trade Center.