With DEI rollbacks affecting every facet of American business and culture, this week’s episode of the Run-Through is a timely conversation between Nicole Phelps and Aurora James, the founder the 15% Pledge, a non-profit organization whose aim is to engage retailers to give 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned businesses.

In this candid conversation James talks about the organization’s success stories, the importance of industry support for small, independent brands, and the responsibility she feels to ensure the organization’s success.

The oh-so-worldly Sarita Choudhury breezed into The Run-Through studio to talk with Chloe Malle and Vogue’s Digital Style Director Leah Faye Cooper about the new season of And Just Like That… including what it was like to kick off her first scene of the season in lingerie. Plus, she reveals where her and her character’s fashion tastes diverge (no animal prints for Sarita, thank you very much). She also shares what it was like to grow up across three countries, and her secret to getting rid of a hangover.

On this week’s episode of The Run-Through, Chloe and Chioma invite Vogue’s fashion news editor, Jose Criales-Unzueta, and senior lifestyle editor, Liam Hess, to select their most highly anticipated releases of the summer. Below, the culture picks under discussion:

Films

• Materialists
• Superman
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• Sentimental Value
• Smurfs
• Freakier Friday
• Megan 2.0

TV Shows

• And Just Like That…
• The Gilded Age, Season 2
• Too Much

Music/Tours

• Lorde’s Virgin
• Miley Cyrus’s Something Beautiful
• Jorja Smith’s Falling or Flying tour
• Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour
• Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour
• Lady Gaga’s Mayhem tour

Books

• Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess
• How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
• Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America by Michael M. Grynbaum
• Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn
• The Bombshell by Darrow Farr
• Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation by Tommy Dorfman