Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ava DuVernay and Doug E. Fresh are some of the big names involved in weekend events this weekend.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Frazer Harrison (Getty Images), Jason Kempin (Getty Images) As summer winds down, the nation’s COVID-19 crisis continues to wage on. Despite the desire to break the …

Matt Barnes is honoring his former teammate Kobe Bryant with a beautiful new tattoo. On Tuesday (August 11), the retired NBA player took to his Instagram Story to reveal clips of him getting a tat featuring the Lakers legend and his daughter Gianna by artist Steve Butcher. “Tattoo day. Here …

In March of this year, as the coronavirus and its effects were unfolding, Dakota Resources, a 24-year-old community development financial institution (CDFI) in Renner, South Dakota, launched a series of Zoom coffee breaks for people from across the state. Every morning, at 10:30, a few dozen people logged in to …

Sarah Cooper, known for lip-syncing impressions of Donald Trump in viral videos, has reportedly earned a Netflix special set for release this fall. According to Deadline, Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine will tackle “issues of politics, race, gender, class, and other light subjects” and feature special guests who will participate in …

  Kamala Harris is the first woman and first African-American or South Asian to become California’s Attorney General. Prior to her present post, which she began in 2011, Harris served two terms as San Francisco’s District Attorney, where she developed a reputation for opposing the death penalty and for defending …

Mahalia Jackson, known to many as the Queen of Gospel, is getting the big screen biopic treatment. Jill Scott will play Jackson in Mahalia!, produced by Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx. This is the second film about Jackson that’s been announced in the past week. A television biopic about the …

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden confirmed Tuesday that California Sen. Kamala Harris will be his running mate for the upcoming election in the fall. This comes after intense pressure for Biden from various critics to choose a Black woman as his vice president pick. However, a new survey shows there …

Rob Kardashian is back! The reality star revealed his slimmed down body at his sister Khloe Kardashian’s 36th birthday in June, however now he’s posting more photos of himself after fans gushed over his new fizique.  The 33-year-old shared an Instagram selfie of himself on Wednesday (August 12) all masked …

Screenshot: Majorie Taylor Greene (Twitter White America is clearly intent on putting its worst foot forward. We already have to deal with folks like Tom Cotton, Matt Gaetz, and, obviously, the president himself, but apparently this wasn’t enough trash for the folks in Georgia’s 14th Congressional district as the GOP …

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The vice presidency sometimes gets a bad rap. But put aside …