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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 …

The Dallas Wings have reportedly hired Vickie Johnson to be their next head coach, according to The Athletic. With her new position, Johnson is the only Black woman currently holding a head coach position in the WNBA, which is made up of nearly 70 percent Black players. The Wings fired …

While many people have concerns about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, Black Panther actress Letitia Wright appears to be embracing anti-vaccine propaganda.  On December 3, the actress posted a video on Twitter from the YouTube channel On The Table, which has been criticized for conspiracy theories and transphobia.  According to …

The House of Representatives approved legislation Friday decriminalizing marijuana and attempting to “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs.” The vote in the Democratic-led chamber marks the first time in U.S. history a chamber of Congress has voted on federal decriminalization, although the bill has almost no …

Written by Dustin Seibert The “very special” episode of any sitcom is a relic of days past, forever relegated to our favorite shows that have passed into syndication heaven (or Hell, depending on your perspective). It is, however, arguably ill-conceived to shoot new sitcom episodes in 2020 while completely disregarding …

Photo: zef art (Shutterstock) Oh, look, yet another thing that disproportionately affects Black people. A new study shows that Black people in Louisville, Ky., were overwhelmingly the subjects of no-knock warrants issued over the last two years. According to a report from the Courier Journal, the Louisville Metro Police received …

The Equalizer is coming back to television. But this time, the series will star Oscar nominee Queen Latifah. The original Equalizer aired from 1985 to 1989 and starred Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former secret agent who uses his skills to fight for justice for everyday people. Denzel Washington …

“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” a phrase coined by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1976, has since become a feminist rallying cry. One of the spheres in which women have been “misbehaving”—and exploring the different facets and effects of their behavior—is literature. The eminent left-wing poet turned public figure …

Noah Cyrus, Miley Cyrus’ younger sister, is apologizing for a racist remark she directed toward Candace Owens following the conservative personality’s comments about Harry Styles. Styles covered Vogue last month wearing a dress, which Owens reacted to with a tweet that read, “Bring back manly men.” Cyrus then went to …