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Hot Damn Heaux, Here We Go Again: Racist images continue to be promoted in the fashion world, this time during a celebratory showcase produced by New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Photo: Bennett Raglin (Getty Images) The trashion fashion world is still about that bullshit! One would think that …

One afternoon in April 2018, Raul Rodriguez was working on his computer at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Los Indios, Texas, when two managers entered the building. Somebody must be in trouble, he thought. The managers usually arrived in pairs when they needed a witness. For nearly …

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President Barack Obama (L) talks with Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers while filling care packages during a NBA Cares service event at the Boys and Girls Club December 2010 in Washington, DC. Bryant and all the members of the 2010 NBA Championship Lakers team volunteered on projects at …

A: Whether or not the immigrants in question become reliable Democratic voters is within the Republican Party’s ability to help decide; “open borders” as they existed for white people for most of United States history are not on the table, and deferring the deportation of undocumented immigrants does not make …

Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a day about love and showing your significant other how much you appreciate them, but one man used that day as an opportunity to give his girlfriend one last date before ending their relationship. Antonia Hylton, a correspondent and producer for VICE, took …

The iconic pose was created in 1984 during a photoshoot for Life magazine. A young Michael Jordan was rising above the ground going up for a dunk. Now, almost 35 years later, that silhouette has become omnipresent, not just around the world of sports, but the world at large. Nike’s …

Nikita Pearl Waligwa, a young actress who starred in Disney’s Queen of Katwe—a film about a chess prodigy from a Ugandan slum—has died at the age of 15 from a brain tumor. According to Ugandan media reports (via UK’s Mirror), Nikita passed away on Saturday (Feb. 15) at TMR …

Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP (Getty Images) In today’s Water is Wet News we find, once again that when police are sent to target civilians at random, black and Latino people will overwhelmingly represent the victimized. The nation saw a prime example of this in the form of New York City’s …

How many second chances, how many reinventions, how many transformations are possible for any given person? What are the forces that keep us moving along our current path and not a different one? In Station Eleven, in which the course of everyone’s life is altered by the disaster, a violinist …