Photo: Drazen Zigic (Shutterstock) As coronavirus cases slowly decline, elementary schools have received authorization to reopen in Los Angeles County. According to NBC News, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has said that case numbers are set to reach 25 for every 100,000 people, which is the threshold …

Against these impossible odds, a graduate student named Lauren Dykman thinks she’s nearly figured it out. “This is a fishsicle,” Dykman announces over a Zoom call in September from her dissection station in a laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. She squeezes what looks like a tiny …

Halle Berry and her boyfriend Van Hunt enjoyed a pants-free Valentine’s Day, and shared their joy on social media. On Sunday (February 14), the 54-year-old Oscar-winning actress posted a video of herself dancing topless in high-wasted heart-print underwear, while her musician boo modeled plain black boxer briefs. “You keep everything …

The Black Travel Movement has inspired many to take advantage of opportunities abroad. For one Black woman entrepreneur, her travels led her to the island of Tenerife off the Spanish coast where she launched her own brand of high-quality tequila. Serita Braxton is the founder of Monita Tequila, a line …

Ray Fisher poses for photographers at a photo call to promote the film ‘Justice League’, in London, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017.Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP (AP) Quite a bit has transpired since Ray Fisher first called out Justice League director Joss Whedon—and it looks like things will be heating up leading …

More concerning: Conventional jet fuel costs $2.22 a gallon but advanced biofuels cost $5.35, he says. This means aviation carries a green premium of 141 percent, so it requires more attention. Cargo ships pose an even bigger challenge: Electrifying their fuel source, a murky oil called “bunker fuel,” has a …

White supremacist group Proud Boys made an “ominous” phone call last week to the production offices of Colin In Black And White, a Netflix series about Colin Kaepernick that is being directed by Ava DuVernay, TMZ reports. The racist group had also planned a protest at the shooting location of …

The saga of “Central Park Karen” appears to be ending. According to The New York Post, misdemeanor charges filed against Amy Cooper, the white woman dubbed “Central Park Karen,” have officially been dropped after she was filmed last year in a viral video calling police and falsely accusing a Black …

Illustration: Angela Alzona 2020 was a year. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Because this whole endeavor is about positivity, I won’t even speak on any of the negativity. What I will say is that 2020 did provide many moments of positivity in the form of movies …

Anissa Jordan was born in Oakland, California, in 1968, the last of eight children. For years, her mother’s live-in boyfriend beat and molested her and her half sister Althenia. The girls didn’t tell their mother. “It was our secret,” Jordan told me. When Jordan was in fourth grade, Althenia was …