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Photo: Andel Ngan (Getty Images) After initially saying that Black Americans are dying at about two times the rate of their white counterparts from COVID-19, the CDC has updated its publicly reported figures to show that the racial disparity in deaths from the disease is even wider. An adjusted data …

Listen. This week, BTS achieved the unthinkable: The South Korean pop septet’s latest single, “Life Goes On,” topped the Billboard Hot 100 despite almost no radio play. Over the holiday, a new Miley Cyrus album arrived: Plastic Hearts is the singer’s “most full-throated, nostalgia-soaked, capital-R Rock statement yet,” our critic …

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0 Image via @fipilot/Instagram According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black Americans only make up less than 3% of U.S. commercial pilots across the country. One father-daughter is breaking barriers within the field, and celebrating a long career in aviation. Fiona Austin-McDonald and her father, Wade Austin-McDonald, bonded over …

Photo: Jonathan Bachman (Getty Images), Gabe Ginsberg (Getty Images) Verzuz, the online musical battle series that has offered up plenty of viral moments during 2020, is back with another highly anticipated match-up. Ashanti and Keyshia Cole, two R&B singers with numerous hits under their belt, will be the next pair …

The Crown is not a documentary. The presence of actors is a strong clue; the members of the Royal Family wish they were this good-looking. Do viewers need to be warned about this? One British politician thinks so. “It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV …

An Alabama woman is now caring for 12 children after her sister, Chantale McCall, a mother of five, passed away from complications of COVID-19. Francesca McCall, who is already raising seven children, said she’s taken in Zariah 17, De Alvion, 15, Angel, 13, Trinity, 6, Serenity, 5, after her 34-year-old …

MSNBC has finally hired permanent replacements for the weekend time slot that was once held by “AM Joy”. The cable news channel has announced the launch of its two new weekend morning shows. The weekend programs, which premiere on Saturday, December 12, and Sunday, December 13, will have Tiffany Cross and …

Screenshot: Penguin Random House Canada, The Center for Fiction (YouTube), Penguin Random House It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root Toni Morrison would be proud. The Center for Fiction’s Annual Awards Benefit was dedicated to the memory of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who died in August 2019. …

This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after  time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster. The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the …