Delivered from the confines of the California penitentiary system, Black August is, at its simplest, a month of remembrance and resistance that began with the arrest of a Black teen.

Just in time for Father’s Day: Mother of three (out of 12, at last count) of Nick Cannon’s children, Brittany Bell, just completed her Ph.D. in psychology. Her very self-aware subject? Experiences of children who have siblings from multiple mothers. We got our hands on a copy of her dissertation. Here are a few of our teams’ hot takes on Bell’s work.

So we’re all on the same page, let’s look at the Brennan Center for Justice’s overview of the court’s opinion about the case: On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6–3 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that the configuration of Louisiana’s second Black-majority district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.