Newsweek March 24, 2023

2015 “Cuba is suddenly brimming with potential,” Newsweek said. “Under Castro’s Communist reign, education and health care were free but the economy crumbled, poverty spread.... Now that the country is opening up for the first time in over five decades, hope, determination and money are in the air, and everything is up for grabs: real estate, construction, telecommunications, tourism.” During the Trump years, the U.S.’s relations with the Cuba grew frosty again. President Biden has promised a warmer relationship and the U.S. Embassy in Havana has increased cultural exchanges. 1987 “Though economic-class divisions are rapidly producing a nation of haves and have-nots, for blacks, race still tends to overshadow all else,” said Newsweek. According to the Federal Reserve, in 2002 the net worth of Black households was only about one-third that of non-Black…

BY THE TIME JOE NAEGELE LEFT HILLCREEK Rehabilitation and Care, he appeared a shell of the man who entered. The 87-year-old’s face was gaunt and his hair disheveled. Speaking exhausted him. It took three women to hoist his body out of a wheelchair and onto the pillows his niece, Theresa Hutchins, had laid across the passenger seat of her SUV. “He looked like a corpse,” she said. Hutchins pulled her uncle from the Louisville, Kentucky, nursing home less than a month after he was admitted in December 2020. The octogenarian had checked into the facility for physical therapy following a COVID-19 hospitalization, she said. Instead, his stay was a veritable death sentence, according to a lawsuit filed on Hutchins’ behalf in 2022. Naegele’s weight plummeted at Hillcreek, his niece said. Barred from…

WHEN RIHANNA PAUSED MIDWAY through her Super Bowl halftime performance to wipe the shine from her face with Fenty Beauty blotting powder, it was her flair for business, not her voice, that was momentarily on bold display. That three-second touch up, coupled with the bright lip she sported (Fenty’s new Icon Velvet Liquid Lipstick in “MVP” red) and the outfits worn by her backup dancers (from her Savage X Fenty lingerie line, of course), garnered the Fenty brand a cool $7.8 million in the first 12 hours after the game, according to Launchmetrics, which measures the monetary value of media marketing strategies. Seizing the opportunity, as Rihanna did at the Super Bowl, is what successful entrepreneurs do best. But ingenuity is not the only thing that new company founders increasingly have…

AS A SOCIETY, WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES IN PROMOTING GENDER equality and breaking down gender barriers. I doubt that I would be in this role if women at Newsweek in the ’70s hadn’t sued—twice—to ensure they were offered the same opportunities as men. But women still face unique challenges in the workplace. These challenges can range from unequal pay and a lack of representation in leadership positions, to discrimination and sexual harassment. One of the most persistent challenges is the wage gap. This disparity is even greater for women of color, who face a double burden of race and gender discrimination. Additionally, women are underrepresented in many industries, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, where they make up only a small percentage of employees. Raising awareness of inequities…

01 Mole Coloradito Oaxaqueño Poached Chicken with a Spiced Mole Sauce MEXICO The regional cuisines of Mexico and India are soulmates. Chiles, for example, are native to Mexico but proved to be an incredible find for India. Mole, that most layered of sauces, weaves in those very same chiles plus herbs, spices, nuts and chocolate. The head nun in the kitchen at the Santa Rosa convent in Puebla, Mexico, is credited with its creation. This mole’s layered technique is employed in some regional Indian curries, highlighting the culinary connections between Mexico and India. 02 Country Captain Chicken Curried Chicken with Peppers and Raisins U.S. Legend has it that this chicken derived from a British sea captain who sailed to Savannah, Georgia, with spices from the motherland. Propelled by his hosts’ warm hospitality, he showed them…

THE PARIS HILTON YOU THINK YOU KNOW ISN’T THE REAL PARIS. “I’M NOT a dumb blonde. I was just very good at pretending to be one.” She writes about this and more in Paris: The Memoir (Dey Street Books, March 14). “A lot of what I did with this character was just a trauma response to all the abuse that I went through as a teenager.” Placed in the controversial Provo Canyon School, a mental health treatment center for girls, Paris writes candidly about the abuse she suffered. “When I was coming out of Provo, I definitely modeled my character on Marilyn Monroe.” When you know this about Paris, you begin to understand so much about her. Now a new wife and mother—“I didn’t even know what love was until…