Octavia Spencer wants more people with disabilities represented in Hollywood. The actress has joined a new public service announcement calling for increased inclusion for those with disabilities in entertainment. In the video, Spencer is seen discussing the importance of being yourself and having non able-bodied people be accurately reflected on …

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. THE ATLANTIC The development of a coronavirus vaccine won’t end this pandemic overnight. Instead, it’ll merely …

The Mowry family will soon be welcoming a new member. Tia and Tamera’s baby brother Tavior Mowry announced his engagement on Instagram this Monday (July 27).  The 27-year-old football player and musician shared photos of him proposing to his boo Zandy Fitzherald, in what looks like a beautiful Tennessee cabin. …

William Bryan Jr., one of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23, is now saying that the 25-year-old should have known that he was under a citizen’s arrest and complied when armed Gregory and Travis McMichael tried to run him off …

America mourns the loss of John Robert Lewis. The civil rights icon, who passed on July 17 at the age of 80, is receiving a fitting, weeklong farewell. On Saturday, the tributes began at his birthplace of Troy, Alabama, a hamlet outside of Montgomery where his civil rights activism took …

Photo: Penty Photography (Shutterstock) There’s something about Facebook that just makes white people go, “I’m gonna end my whole career today.” In one of the most inventive instances of playing oneself, a Florida man was arrested after posting, among other things, a racist Cards Against Humanity play. According to Insider, …

The Atlantic has hired Clint Smith as a staff writer, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced today. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in education from Harvard University this spring, has contributed to The Atlantic over the past several years––in June, he wrote on becoming a parent in the age of …

The body of late Congressman John Lewis was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on Sunday (July 26), more than five decades after he and other civil rights activists marched for voting rights across the bridge but were met with violence from state and local police. After …

Share0 (Image: Facebook) More Than A Vote and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition have announced a collaboration that intends to assist in securing voting rights for former felons living in the state of Florida, according to a press release. Los Angeles Lakers’ player LeBron James announced last month that he …

Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) On July 25, 2005, William Ray Norwood, Jr. better known to the world as Ray J, released his classic single, “One Wish.” Whether you agree or not with this next statement doesn’t matter, for its truth is indisputable: “One Wish” is one of the greatest …