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 ...

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 ...

Collection Seven, the latest line from Marco Marco, made history Saturday for presenting an entirely transgender roster of models at the designer underwear brand’s New York Fashion Week runway ...

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 ...

Running for: New Hampshire House of Representatives, Rockingham-18 (incumbent) Party: Democratic Age: 58 Current residence: Exeter, New Hampshire New Hampshire state Rep. Lisa Bunker first wanted ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien.After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

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 ...

President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 individuals in December 2016, many of whom had similar drug-related charges.Johnson was not one of them. “When the criteria came out for clemency ...

A number of grassroots activists have begun sharing the texts of anti-racist literature on social media, too. Writer Nabila Lovelace shared a wealth of PDF documents in an expansive Twitter thread ...

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 ...

It’s official: The Supreme Court has issued a decision that overturned Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. Following decades of attacks from conservatives, it may seem like anti-abortion ...

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer ...