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📚 The Death of Jesus, by J. M. Coetzee Rewriting the “boy genius” “Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel, The Vexations, a fictional dive into the early life of the French composer Erik Satie … creates a wrenching portrait of overconfidence as a destructive force.” 📚 The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks The …

A reporter for CNN and his camera crew were arrested on live television Friday morning (May 29) while covering the protests in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd. Black correspondent Omar Jimenez had just shown a protester being handcuffed when all of a sudden he was surrounded by …

“The stories are kinda like my slam dunks. Except, I’m dunking words. In your FACE!” – Jason Reynolds New York Times best-selling author, Jason Reynolds, has beautifully penned his way from cover to cover with original novels and poetry. As a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature for …

Gabrielle Union is opening up about her parenting approach with her husband Dwyane Wade and loving and accepting their beautiful family. Gracing the latest cover of Variety the actress opened up to the magazine about their daughter Zaya, who came out as transgender earlier this year. Union says that despite …

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin—the now-fired Minneapolis Police Department officer who was seen on video kneeling on Floyd’s neck before he died in police custody—actually knew each other and worked together at a restaurant for nearly two decades, according to a Minneapolis City councilor. Speaking during live TV coverage …

By Subrat Patnaik and Shubham Kalia (Reuters) – Twitter hid a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump behind a warning on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot. Twitter’s decision to step in escalates …

The Black community has been outraged over the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, which comes after the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Sean Reed. Legendary rapper Ice Cube has voiced his concerns as well and canceled his appearance on Good Morning America. He wrote on twitter, …

Photo: Omar Rawlings (Getty Images) As if the coronavirus hasn’t already ruined enough of our lives, now comes the news that another sports-related event has been postponed until 2021. From ESPN: Jerry Colangelo, the chairman of the board of governors for the Hall, told ESPN on Wednesday that enshrinement ceremonies …

One of Denzel Washington’s most iconic roles is his spot-on portrayal of Malcolm X in the biopic directed by Spike Lee in 1992. His son reveals he would channel Malcolm X to inspire kids while he was playing tackle football in the seventh grade. In an interview with Esquire, John …

Fred’s arc suggests an answer as simple as separating one’s own authentic desires from the fleeting demands of lust and social pressure. (Fred’s bolt of clarity in the book’s final pages: “What am I doing?”) A reader can also see—in Kramer’s sprawling diagrams of money, drugs, and bodies flowing as …