African American women are taught to be strong, and they’re internalizing that strength when it comes to mental health.

Black mothers and aunties for generations have told their Black daughters that they’re beautiful, and have warned them to ignore the whispers — when the world would ridicule and objectify them for their bodies, their strength, their hair. Those little girls grow up to be strong Black women, or at least aspire to be, and their Black elders smile an approving smile.

Knowingly — but oftentimes unknowingly — the elders are trying to prepare their daughters for a world in which Black women disproportionately experience violence at home, at school, on the job and in their neighborhoods, not to mention institutionalized racism. “Be strong,” the elders say. Be a “strong Black woman,” despite the odds.

A Sharpie-wielding president tries to cover up a mistake, and the media tempest misses the point.

The president has a soft spot for Alabama.

It’s the state that first came out in force for him, at an August 2015 football stadium rally of 30,000 people that proved Trump was a durable political phenomenon. It delivered him 62 percent of the vote against Hillary Clinton, among the highest marks in the country. And the state’s own Jeff Sessions was the first U.S. senator to endorse Trump (even if the president did eventually turn on him as attorney general).

So last weekend Trump was just looking out for his people when he wrongly warned Alabama on Twitter that it was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, sparking a debate that encapsulates so much about Trump and the media cauldron we live in.

As Delhi’s ambitions in space grow larger, a look back at where it all began.

The altar held a sandalwood statue of Mary Magdalene that legend said fishermen had found lying on the beach. She watched, undisturbed, as payloads for rockets were assembled before her in what had been the St. Mary Magdalene Church … and was transformed in the early ’60s into India’s premier rocket launching headquarters.

Early Saturday morning, India made an attempt to soft-land on the moon, something only the U.S., Russia and China have accomplished before — and none this close to the lunar South Pole. According to Indian Space Research Organization accounts, the Vikram lander lost communication at an altitude of a little over a mile from the landing site. While official confirmation is yet to come through, it is likely the lander has crashed. The orbiter, with eight payloads, however, will continue to carry out experiments for at least a year.