There’s enough writing in the sections below that I’ll keep this short. Please listen to Nick Hakim’s new psychedelic soul album called Will This Make Me Good, and start with “ALL THESE CHANGES,” titled in an alarming all caps. Lines for the times.

NEWS: On Monday, the staff of Bon Appetit called (successfully) for their Editor-In-Chief, Adam Rapoport, to resign for upholding a culture of racism at the magazine.

If you engage with Bon Appetit, the complaints might not surprise you. Among the publication’s employees of color (of whom a grand total of two are Black), very few are in top leadership positions, and the people who get the most air time on their very popular YouTube channel are white. Sohla El-Waylly, the assistant food editor who led the uprising, explained her own situation in a post on instagram: as a 35-year-old chef with extensive restaurant experience, she was hired at $50k to assist less-experienced white editors with their projects. Since, she’s been asked to appear, uncompensated, in their videos, symbolizing a convenient diversity for the brand.

On top of the magazine’s structural inequality, a catalyst for the call to resign was the resurfacing of an old photo of Rapoport and his wife in which they were dressed in brownface for Halloween, with a super offensive caption featuring Puerto Rican tropes.

Several Black and brown writers have since sounded off on BA’s longstanding culture of racism. Here is Rapoport’s public apology.

As many have noted, this isn’t just a BA problem, but a problem with Condé Nast (imagine) and publishing at large. These corporations were designed to serve white interests, and the “inclusion strategy” of inching toward symbolic diversity leaves employees of color in a position of having to fight for their existence. Changes in leadership are just beginning to chip away at the problem, but there is still so much progress to be made.

As Kara R. Brown said on Monday, it’s resignation season. Outside of Condé, Christine Barberich has stepped down as Editor-In-Chief of Refinery29 in response to a very dispiriting, totally unsurprising pile-on of accounts of racism at the content sweatshop masquerading as a women’s media company. The Executive Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer is also out after his paper addressed looting with the headline, “Buildings Matter, Too.” And of course, James Bennett resigned this week as New York Times Opinion Editor after his department ran the Tom Cotton op-ed promoting the use of National Guard against protesters. (Flouting Times policy, dozens of Times writers staged an online protest stating, “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.”)

People will call this cancel culture, which distracts from what is really happening: a reckoning.  Does it suck for each of these individuals to suddenly lose their jobs? Yes. But after they’ve actively wielded oppressive power structures in order to make a profit or brand or a #conversation, the industry is, at long last, deciding that their sensibilities are no longer fitting for leadership positions.

It’s encouraging to see institutions suddenly acknowledge the voices of staffers of color, and exciting to think about what new leaders and organizations might rise out of the ashes. But, as Jenna Wortham tweeted, “the sad truth about this wave of media reckonings is that it feels way too late — so many talented Black journalists and media creators chose their sanity and moved on. grieving for all their careers / stories.”

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