A federal jury awarded $80 million to the estate of a Black man who was wrongly convicted of a 1976 murder in Buffalo, New York, as a teen and imprisoned for 28 years. The jury found that the Erie County District Attorney’s Office withheld exculpatory evidence and engaged in other prosecutorial misconduct that had denied…
Source: San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger, died on Sunday at age 104. According to KQED, Betty Reid Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit on Sept. 22, 1921. Soskin spent her early life with her Creole family in New Orleans before they were displaced during the…
Chris Tucker is one of the few celebrities who has relationships with almost everyone in Hollywood and beyond, but some are surprised at his ties to a controversial figure. The comedian and actor, best known for his lead role in the “Rush Hour” trilogy became part of a growing discourse after the first Epstein files…
President Donald Trump‘s Justice Department quietly removed at least 16 documents from its public webpage containing files related to Jeffrey Epstein less than a day after posting them, triggering more scrutiny over what the administration is withholding from the public. The missing materials, which were accessible Friday and gone by Saturday, included an image that…
Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest full-time National Park Service ranger in the United States, looks on during a news conference announcing her retirement at the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park on April 15, 2022 in Richmond, California. Betty Reid Soskin retired on March 31 after a decade and a half of…
Source: South_agency / Getty Most people don’t know what the Prison Rape Elimination Act is. If they’ve heard of it at all, it’s likely through headlines framing it as an “LGBTQ prison policy” now being rolled back by the Trump administration. That framing is dangerously incomplete — and it allows something far more consequential to…
Steve Marcus / Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle isn’t afraid to speak his mind, and that continued to be the case on his surprise Netflix special, Unstoppable. One person who does not fear being canceled is Dave Chappelle, as he continues to prove he is immune to calls to send him to the internet gulag. Following…
When Karoline Leavitt shows up in a high-profile photo, the internet doesn’t just look — it leans in close enough to count pores. And after Vanity Fair published a stark, unforgiving portrait of the 28-year-old White House press secretary, social media did exactly what it always does: zoom, dissect, and spiral. That’s exactly what happened…
President Donald Trump‘s White House Chief of Staff unreservedly admitted that the criminal charges the president tried to pursue against New York Attorney General Letitia James were his attempt at political payback. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles said that the mortgage fraud charges the president tried to saddle James with were a…
(Photo: Getty Images) The U.S. Congresswoman said Vance’s remarks were the same “racist tropes” she had heard her “entire life.” U.S. Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett is hitting back after Vice President JD Vance delivered a personal attack against her, calling the Black congresswoman a “street girl.” While delivering a speech on Sunday at Turning Point…
