Watch full video on YouTube.View most updated version of this post on Substack.Share Jimmy Ruffin was a talented Motown singer/songwriter best known for his 1966 classic “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.” He was the older brother of Temptations lead singer David Ruffin. Ruffin was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. His younger brother David came along five years later. The brothers sang with their family’s gospel group and later both joined the Dixie Nightingales, a male vocal gospel group.

Joan of Arc has one of the most complicated and charged reception histories of any saint. Embraced as a symbol of the French far-right, as a feminist icon and as a transgressive androgyne, few other saints have resonated across such disparate movements. Cute Etsy stickers emblazoned with the quote ‘I was not afraid; I was born to do this’ (not something Joan ever said) vs Marine Le Pen holding a rally in front of Frémiet’s 1874 statue of a gilded Joan on horseback.

I recently came across this interview between journalist Barbra L. Goldsmith and John Fairchild, the legendary editor and publisher of Women’s Wear Daily. Born into fashion publishing, his grandfather founded Fairchild Publications in 1892 and then WWD in 1910. In 1955, John became the European bureau chief of Fairchild Publications before taking on the role of WWD’s EIC and publisher in 1960—which he quickly morphed from a staid trade journal into a gossip-heavy and very influential fashion publication, capable of creating and destroying careers.

José Bautista’s MLB career will be remembered for a handful of indelible moments, chief among them his brawl with Rougned Odor and the bat flip heard ’round the world against the Texas Rangers during Game 5 of the 2015 ALDS. But now that Bautista has officially retired 1,777 days after his last big-league at bat, he should also be remembered for how he carved out a career path like no other in baseball.

Earlier this year, Joseph Zieler was tried in Lee County for two counts of first-degree murder related to crimes that occurred decades ago. In May, the jury convicted Zieler on both counts. The trial judge applied the new capital sentencing statute. On May 24, a Lee County jury voted 10-2 to recommend a sentence of death for both counts. The defense filed a motion for new trial on June 2, 2023, and also other motions since the trial.