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7 Activists on How Their Work Will Continue, Regardless of Who Wins the Election

We spoke to seven activists around the country about the issues they’ll prioritize in the upcoming days and weeks, no matter who wins on Election Day….

The ACLU will work with our People Power activists to make sure civil rights issues, specifically racial justice, are front and center in the next administration and Congress as well as on the local level. We will work on a holistic policy platform that aims to convert our country’s history of systemic inequality into a future of systemic equality. This will include key pieces of legislation on voting rights, criminal justice, and marijuana reform and reparations. The best way to get involved is to sign up. We need everyone’s help to bring true, lasting political and economic equality to all people.

Rebecca Davis, founder, grassroots voting activist organization Rally + Rise

I think a very big issue for 2021 could be voting rights; protections, expansions, and coming up with a strategy for dealing with a Supreme Court that’s shown itself to be pretty hostile toward protecting those rights.

My advice to anyone recently activated by a specific event—whether it was the George Floyd killing, COVID, or the 2020 election—is to shift your mindset around activism. How can you treat it like a habit (rather than a response), so that it becomes a regular part of your life? Look at how you hold yourself accountable to, say, working out or meditating, and apply that to activism. Finding whatever it is that’ll motivate you to keep doing the work is the best thing you can do to set yourself up for channeling your energy into new (or continued!) forms of action.

The sheer number of people who have taken action in some way for the first time—from attending a protest to phone banking for a candidate—keeps me optimistic. Once people realize that, yes, activism is for them, that it is something they can do, I think they’re more likely to start viewing events and issues through that lens of: Okay, what can I do to impact this and how do I get involved? I’ve seen that from new Rally+Rise members this year, and it’s so inspiring and motivating.

This year has been brutal for our psyches, and I’ve been incubating ways to feel more empowered. One of those ways is by creating a data tool modeled after the original “Green Book” that’s focused on creating a standard of care for Black lives. Once businesses pledge to uphold those standards, they’re listed in this directory, and then it’s up to the consumers to sort of hold them accountable. We’ve partnered with MoCADA, we’ve partnered with Protect Black Business, we’ve partnered with a policy firm called Pink Cornrows to bring the data tool, which will hopefully be open to the public in the spring of 2021, to life. There are already existing standards of care when it comes to property ownership; when it comes to what type of establishment you operate, whether it’s a bar or a clothing store. We’ve a spectrum of non-safety, and we’re not taking it anymore.

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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