Breaking News

Nathan Daniel LarsonPhoto: Denver County Jail There are certain criminals in this world who are a potential danger to any and everyone who crosses their path; police in California just arrested what appears to be one of them. A white supremacist from Virginia who has run for office multiple times …

Laverne Cox and Shonda Rhimes, two of the most celebrated people in entertainment, are joining forces for a podcast series. The Laverne Cox Show will be hosted by the Orange Is The New Black star and feature “intimate conversations” with guests. Cox said about the venture, “I’m thrilled to be …

Coming off the heels of her impressive victory in November when she became the first Black congresswoman in Missouri’s history, representative-elect Cori Bush has been appointed to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. I ran for office on the promise of justice. Justice for Black lives. Justice for every community held …

Rodney BryantPhoto: Washington County Sheriff’s Office I want to say that 2020 really has white people wilding wilding, but really the actions of passionate racists typically aren’t terribly surprising in any given year. In Aloha, Ore., a Black FedEx worker said he found himself on the wrong side of a …

Read: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and the liberating power of music The politics of dramatic structure might appear tenuous. It’s not obvious that a director’s request, say, for Wilson to trim his characters’ monologues so that Ma Rainey would build more swiftly and clock in at under three hours (as, …

Dwyane Wade is honoring his daughter Zaya. The 38-year-old shared a pair of photos featuring his 13-year-old and posted a beautiful quote about unconditional love. Back in February, Wade and wife Gabrielle Union supported Zaya during her journey of coming out as transgender. “Unconditional love, simply put, is love without …

0 (Image: Twitter) In the season of giving, professional basketball player Jrue Holiday of the Milwaukee Bucks has decided to donate the rest of his “2020 NBA salary to small Black-owned businesses, nonprofits, and initiatives,” according to an Instagram post from over the weekend. “With the Covid-19 Pandemic and heightened …

Screenshot: Lucasfilm It’s been about a full 24 hours since I finished the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I expected the finale to be a lot of things. Mainly cool as all hell. I didn’t expect it to be …

Our staff writer Sarah Zhang explains: Viruses mutate all the time, and most mutations aren’t significant. In the U.K., scientists noticed one strain—with a set of about 20 mutations—that shot up in prevalence in recent weeks. That could be a sign that this variant is more transmissible, or it …

After her historic election victory in November, Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush was nominated to serve on the House Judiciary Committee. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the announcement on Friday (December 28).  Bush, a 44-year-old single mother of two, defeated Republican Anthony Rogers …