“This important update will empower shelter providers to set policies that align with their missions,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson inthe statement ” Billie is making a return to the playfully brash style of her breakout singles. “Damn, you think that you're the man,” she sings, before quoting the French philosopher René Descartes: “I think therefore I am.” Not a reference we were expecting, but it’s nice to know the singer has been keeping up with her 16th-century epistemology while in quarantine too. “I am 18 now and I still hold the weight and trauma of what I witnessed a year ago. It’s a little easier now, but I’m not who I used to be,” she wrote this week. “A part of my childhood was taken from me. My nine-year-old cousin who witnessed the same thing I did got a part of her childhood taken from her.” there are many things on my mind. While I’m incredibly excited to begin this new chapter of the magazine I’ve looked up to since I was a teen, I’m also thinking about all the challenges young people are dealing with today — particularly in the context of the one-year mark of George Floyd’s murder. Young people have led a global movement against systemic racism this past year, and a key part of it started with 17-year-old Darnella Frazier.