Rachel Treisman
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Adams rose to fame in the 1990s with the comic strip Dilbert.
It satirized corporate culture based on Adams' own experience in offices, as he explained to NPR in 1996.
Dilbert spawned books and an animated sitcom, but newspapers dropped it in 2023 after Adams made racist remarks on his YouTube talk show.
And what she's best known for is leading a walkout at her Virginia high school to protest the conditions there and advocate for more equal facilities compared to the white high school.
And that case pretty directly led to Brown v. Board of Ed, which ended school segregation in the U.S.
classrooms were in these freestanding tar paper shacks they didn't have plumbing or heat and of course they didn't have facilities like science labs or a gym or an athletic field and over the years it seems like she grew increasingly frustrated we know from some of her writings that she took her concerns to a teacher and the teacher basically said why don't you do something about it and she got to thinking about it and decided to take it upon herself to try to change that
So there was this case that resulted in the new school being built.
But more importantly, that case became one of the five that the Supreme Court considered in 1952 and in the years following in Brown v. Board of Ed, which challenged segregated education nationwide.
What I think is nationally relevant here too is we don't see a lot of Confederate statues being replaced in 2025, both because so many of them came down in 2020 and the years after, and also because now under the second Trump administration, there is sort of this push from the White House to reinstall some of those Confederate statues rather than replace them.
And so I think this speaks to the fact that this change has been in the works for five years at this point, well before President Trump was reelected.
A user's listening age is based off their preferred era of music, according to the songs they listen to all year.
Spotify says its calculations rely on the, quote, The idea that adults feel most connected to music from their teenage years.
For example, someone fond of 1970s music might get a listening age in their 60s, as if they had been a teen at that time.
That might explain why electro pop star Charlie XCX, who popularized Brat, has a listening age of 75.
A user's listening age is based off their preferred era of music, according to the songs they listen to all year.
Spotify says its calculations rely on the, quote, reminiscence bump, the idea that adults feel most connected to music from their teenage years.
For example, someone fond of 1970s music might get a listening age in their 60s, as if they had been a teen at that time.
That might explain why electro pop star Charlie XCX, who popularized Brat, has a listening age of 75.