Source: Anoa Changa / iOne Culture workers and creatives have always been critical to our fight for justice. As barrier breakers, innovators, and translators, they have sustained and inspired Black communities to build new spaces beyond the status quo. With the rising importance of the digital information ecosystem, the enduring influence of culture workers and…
Hugh Jackman’s headline-grabbing connection to Sutton Foster is once again under the microscope thanks to the actor’s latest performance in New York City. Jackman, 56, is starring in the “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” off-Broadway play. Ella Beatty, 25, was cast as the love interest of Jackman’s character Jon, a middle-aged novelist and university…
Like many who’ve observed the bizarre case of Shiloh Hendrix, the racist Minnesota woman who has raised nearly $800,000 from supporters after being caught on video repeatedly calling a 5-year-old Black child the N-word, Instagram user Kiandria Damone felt disgusted. But she didn’t just want to be another member of the chorus calling out Hendrix’s…
Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty How many times does an administration have to show it has been shaped by the legacy of Jim Crow and a chronically online incel’s wildest racist fantasties for it to come under greater scrutiny? Last week, the Justice Department announced that it would be lifting a school desegregation order in…
A control tower is seen at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) After recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year, Trump promises to fix the shortage of air traffic controllers. The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string…
A House Oversight Committee hearing about proposed budget cuts at the Department of Homeland Security took a slight detour after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, derisively nicknamed “ICE Barbie” for her Instagram-polished photo shoots with immigration and customs enforcement commando squads, was hit with a series of probing questions by a visibly frustrated Democratic congresswoman. The…
Source: JIM WATSON / Getty As if the tariffs, cuts to the federal government and the crippling of 401(k)s wasn’t enough, the Trump administration is hellbent on collecting student loan payments that have been on pause since Trump’s first term. According to NBC Chicago, the worst administration ever isn’t just looking to get folks back…
Cultural and architectural historian Michael Henry Adams poses for a portrait on Thursday, May 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton) Dandyism was at the heart of Monday’s Met Gala, but Black dandyism isn’t limited to expensive couture — it’s displayed daily. Michael Henry Adams had reached a fashion crossroads by the early 1970s: As bell bottoms…
Fans of Mark Hamill were left doing double takes after the release of the first trailer for “The Long Walk,” where they inexplicably claimed beloved “Star Wars” icon appears virtually unrecognizable at age 73. The actor, forever etched in pop culture history as the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker, has undergone a dramatic transformation for his role…
Candles spell out the name of Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil for Nichols on the anniversary of his death, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, file) “Tyre and his family deserve true justice — not only in the courtroom, but in Congress,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said. After three former Memphis…
