- Academic solidarity. Black female professors are rallying behind Nikole Hannah-Jones in the journalist's dispute with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over her denial of tenure. These academics know how hard it is to secure tenure; only 1.9% of tenured jobs at doctoral universities belong to Black women. Washington Post

- Multi-hyphenate. Stacey Abrams is a politician, activist, author, and...startup founder? In 2010, Abrams launched the B2B financial services company Now. The startup just raised $9.5 million in Series A funding. Fast Company

- Primary results. Before Terry McAuliffe announced his bid for a return to the Virginia governorship, two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination were Jennifer Carroll Foy and Jennifer McClellan. Both lost out to McAuliffe when he clinched the primary on Tuesday. CNN

- Board diversity. Twenty-four percent of board seats at companies listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange went to female directors in 2020, according to Heidrick & Struggles. But Hong Kong businesses are still behind U.S. companies on board diversity; 37% of boards were all-male. South China Morning Post

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Longtime Facebook exec Carolyn Everson is stepping down as head of global advertising sales. Stella Bugbee will leave New York to become editor of the New York Times' Styles section. Annette Thomas quit as Guardian Media Group CEO. Carbon Health hired Nita Sommers as chief growth officer. Francesca Sally was elected president of the Graduate Business Council at Georgia Tech's Scheller School of Business. Plant-based milk company Perfect Day hired Laura A. Peter, an alum of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as global head of legal and general counsel.

- Activist effort. Who convinced Goldman Sachs to change its stance on conducting a report on forced arbitration at the bank? That was a small activist shareholder called Nathan Cummings Foundation (associated with the founder of Sara Lee). A foundation exec says the bank initially "spent a lot of time talking to us, but didn’t actually really want to do anything." Bloomberg

- Dinner party. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Kay Bailey Hutchinson started the longstanding Senate tradition gathering female senators for quarterly dinners. But those get-togethers slowed over the past few years thanks to both a partisan and divided Senate and, more recently, the pandemic. Vice President Kamala Harris is bringing them back; she's scheduled to host the 24 female senators for dinner next week. Politico

- Family planning. Yashu Zhang, a Chinese writer based in Shanghai, writes about how she and her friends are reacting to China's recent decision to lift its one-child policy and encourage couples to have more children. Zhang wants a large family—but she's an anomaly, she says. Most of her peers don't plan to have more than one child because of factors like the cost of raising a child in a city like Shanghai. New York Times