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The movement to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday has picked up major congressional support. On Tuesday (June 15), the Senate unanimously passed a bill to establish June 19 as a federal holiday honoring the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Tex., were informed they had been free …

Despite the fact that Kanye West is being sued for upwards of $50 million by his former Sunday Service employees and executives at MyChannel Inc. who claimed that they helped the rapper maximize the revenue made from his Sunday Service, he recently got his church approved for a tax exempt …

I’M SO FREAKING READY, Y’ALLImage: Nintendo This year’s E3 conferences have been thoroughly mid. Given that the pandemic has greatly affected the production pipeline, my expectations were very tempered going into this E3. So, you can imagine my surprise when Nintendo woke up this morning, looked at its wrist, and …

Above, clockwise from bottom-right: Kodak founder George Eastman takes a picture, circa 1925. High Falls in Rochester, New York, Kodak’s hometown. Postcard of the Kodak Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1964. FIGHT, a group seeking to change Kodak’s hiring practices, protests at a shareholders’ meeting, 1967. This article …

The pop music industry is notorious for impossibly high standards of beauty and pressuring stars to lose weight, but it turns out this was not true for CeeLo Green. The “Crazy” singer was, in fact, told the opposite when he was looking to trim down. Green, 46, wrote on Instagram, …

The successful team of legendary hip-hop music producer Andre Young, also known as Dr. Dre, and former Interscope Records’ honcho Jimmy Iovine, are on the next episode of doing big things and recently  launched an innovative arts and technology school. The “Beats By Dre” duo, who have successfully launched an …

Screenshot: Twitter (Other) Pride is supposed to be a time of celebration for the LGBTQ community. In a world that disparages, neglects, and generally doesn’t protect queer and trans people, Pride celebrations are supposed to be one of the few out and out safe spaces for the community. Unfortunately, a …

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. A new variant of the coronavirus is raising alarms globally. What does it mean for Americans? …

Pharrell Williams is giving back to his home state of Virginia by opening a private school for low-income families. According to the Associated Press, the school will be tuition-free for at least the first year with costs covered by philanthropic support. The first school will open in Ghent, which is …

Reuters – New York is lifting all state-mandated coronavirus restrictions after reporting that 70% of the state’s adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday. “It is an important milestone, and we’re going to keep pushing to do more,” Cuomo told a …