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The late ‘60s marked a sharp increase in Black independent bookstores, and the timing of the surge — during the height of the Black Power Movement — was no coincidence. Hoover was right ...
Experts see both a lot of potential benefit and a great deal of potential harm that could be created when people post publicly about self-harm. “It could raise someone's [a viewer’s] awareness ...
Top Dawg Entertainment has been relatively quiet lately, but they’re coming off a decade as the loudest, most creative team in rap. In the 2010s, the label — led by CEO Anthony “Top Dawg ...
So naturally, he’s been poking at and riffing on SETI projects for decades. Notably, in 1986, he briefly took over MIT’s Millstone radar dish to beam the vaginal contractions of a troupe of ...
Kylie Jenner cannot be bothered with traffic. The billionaire is facing backlash over her private jet usage, after receipts show her taking minutes-long flights across town to avoid what would ...
This story has spoilers for the Season 3 premiere of Atlanta. In the opening scene of the Season 3 premiere for FX’s Atlanta, a white man and a Black man sit in a boat on an unnamed lake ...
As the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court impacts basically every aspect of life in the United States — but some of its decisions have more consequences than others. The court wraps up ...
When I'm sad, I listen to sad music. When I'm happy, I listen to happy music. When I'm depressed, I don't listen to any music at all. This is such a reliable pattern in my life that I can use my ...
On Sunday, three people were shot dead at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area. It's believed that the suspect — identified as Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73 — was once the ...
Alex Torres first heard Taylor Swift at a middle school dance in Antioch, Illinois. “I instantly fell in love,” Torres says about “Teardrops on My Guitar” and “Our Song,” a pair of ...
If you have ever considered your zombie apocalypse survival plan, you've almost certainly concluded that the best place to be to survive the end-of-the-world event is somewhere isolated, and ...
Social media has a bad reputation for promoting slacktivism — the endless cycle of supposedly radical reposts that add up to all talk and no action. But recently, labor activists and union ...