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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | New York City didn’t get its woman mayor—but thanks to ranked-choice voting, the city sure broke records. Last week: Women and LGBTQ people are projected to hold a record number of seats on the NYC council; 109 men, zero women as NYC mayor; Vanessa Gibson may become the first woman Bronx Borough president; the candidates and the organizations that helped women in NYC run viable campaigns; not much opportunity for women to pick up many, if any, seats in the upcoming gubernatorial races.

BY MEREDITH ABDELNOUR | The treatment of Sha’Carri Richardson is a symptom of a much larger problem — even as the weed industry booms and more and more states legalize the drug, racist anti-drug laws are still impacting Black people at a disproportionate rate.

“Sha’Carri’s suspension serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder of how insidious the drug war is in our everyday lives, far beyond the carceral state.”

BY DEBORAH J. COHAN | Deborah J. Cohan’s "Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption" shows the complexities of unconditional love.

“My dad’s erratic meanness … was all mixed up with his erratic kindness. The erratic nature of it all actually became predictable—predictable erraticness, erratic predictability. … my dad’s behavior was all too often so impossible that I questioned her loyalty and why she stayed; I never really understood them together. Now at 49, I understand it better, through the prism of my own love for my dad, my own loyalty to him, even amid all that went on.”