How I learned about the power of rest for Black women

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Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Today's guest essay comes from Fortune's L'Oreal Thompson Payton, who writes about why Black women deserve rest. Plus: There's a shakeup at Netflix and stars are out early from the Australian Open. Have a mindful Monday.

- Rest up. At a yoga retreat for women of color I attended several years ago in the mountains of Georgia, one of the facilitators asked, “Who taught you how to rest?” I sat there for minutes racking my brain trying to come up with a list. Sure, my mother had weekly hair appointments, and my grandmother loved soap operas and the occasional romance novel. But rest? Black women didn’t have the luxury of rest.