How Trump and Mike Johnson’s election voting attack echoes America’s racist past

msnbc.com Listening to Mike Johnson and Donald Trump's fearmongering news conference about noncitizens voting in federal elections Friday, I was reminded of the long history of…

Beyoncé and Jay-Z bought the most expensive mansion in California history

businessinsider.com Beyoncé and Jay-Z, seen here at the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards, own a dazzling array of real estate. Neilson Barnard/NBCUniversal In 2023, Beyoncé and Jay-Z purchased a…

Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90

nytimes.com Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died on…

Cornel West VP Pick ‘Absolutely’ Stands by Comments Comparing Police to KKK on CNN

mediaite.com Melina Abdullah, the running mate of independent presidential candidate Cornel West, defended her previous comments comparing police to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) during an…

Before He Was Infamous, O.J. Simpson’s Acting Helped Make Him Famous

nytimes.com Before O.J. Simpson became synonymous with the sensational murder trial that riveted the nation in the mid-1990s, he was a football star turned Hollywood fixture who played…

O.J. Simpson Inspired This Grammy-Nominated Classic

billboard.com O.J. Simpson, who died on Wednesday (April 10) at 76, was a deeply polarizing figure, but he inspired a great work of art – Jay-Z’s 2017 song and video, “The Story of O.J.,”…

Nassau County GOP is moving ahead with its armed, civilian militia. And they're not alone

msnbc.com Despite facing backlash from civil rights activists and Democratic lawmakers, Republicans in conservative-leaning Nassau County, New York, are moving forward with a plan to…

Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

economist.com “Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” So starts Alfred Marshall’s “Principles of Economics”, a 19th-century textbook that helped create the…

Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Inks 7-Figure Fiction Deal With Bantam Books (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump has inked a seven-figure deal to author a series of crime novels for Bantam Books. Under the deal, Bantam Books will publish the first…