culture
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Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev Teams With SCLC to Promote Nonviolence
What do Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Charles Steele and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have in common? As it turns out, both have a passion for social justice, equality, nonviolent conflict resolution and a deep-rooted admiration for Martin Luther King Jr., who was the co-founder and first president of the SCLC. At a summit…
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Model Janice Dickinson Releases Photos of Bill Cosby in a ‘Patchwork’ Robe
Celebrity news site TMZ reports that it has obtained pictures of Bill Cosby from 1980s supermodel Janice Dickinson, who claims that she took Polaroids of the TV icon shortly before he sexually assaulted her—an accusation that she went public with in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday. Here’s part of Dickinson’s description of the alleged…
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How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Wait, Huh?!
On Thursday night’s How to Get Away With Murder winter finale, after all the cryptic flashbacks we saw all season, it was finally revealed who killed Sam. It was Michaela! Or Wes! Or Wes and Annalise?! Wait, what? Let’s run it down. 1. First, Annalise and Sam get into a nasty fight. Annalise is packing Sam’s stuff like Bernadine…
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Report: Darren Wilson Negotiating Resignation From Ferguson Police Department
The Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in early August is wrapping up negotiations with city officials to resign, CNN reports. According to CNN’s sources, Darren Wilson has insisted that he did not commit any wrongdoing in the Aug. 9 shooting. The negotiations over his resignation are centered on whether…
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Virginia High School: No, Our Principal Wasn’t Throwing Up Gang Signs
A Lawrenceville, Va., high school is trying to protect its principal against accusations that he was throwing up gang signs in a photo taken with students, WRIC reports. Brunswick High School Principal Warren Bell can be seen in the sharply criticized photo, making a hand gesture while standing next to five students, who were also…
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Ex-NFL Lineman Jason Brown Left Football to Pursue His Dream of Becoming a Farmer
To the casual observer, Jason Brown had it all. At one point the former NFL center had a five-year, $37 million contract with the St. Louis Rams—but then one day he decided to walk away from it all, CBS News reports. “My agent told me, ‘You’re making the biggest mistake of your life,’ ” Brown…
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Brooklyn Man’s Shooting by NYPD Rookie Is Called an Accident
The New York City Police Department is calling the shooting of an unarmed 28-year-old man by a rookie officer an “accident,” emphasizing that the victim was “a total innocent,” the New York Times reports. According to the report, Akai Gurley was shot in a stairwell in the borough of Brooklyn late Thursday night, reportedly without…
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Scandal Recap: 5 ‘Say What?!’ Moments From the Winter Finale
Thursday night, Scandal’s winter finale aired—an event so highly anticipated that President Barack Obama moved up his immigration speech to accommodate it. Thank you, Mr. President. Now, if only Shonda Rhimes could get the network to hold all commercials until the end of the show, we would greatly appreciate it. Seriously, why are there so many…
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Fire Chief Reportedly Tells Sheriff’s Deputy ‘We Ain’t Taking No N–gers Here’
A Kentucky fire chief is under scrutiny after a shocking video showed him apparently refusing to assist a black family after a traffic accident and laughing while saying, “We ain’t taking no n—gers here,” WDRB reports. In the video, reportedly recorded on the body camera of a county sheriff’s deputy and obtained by WDRB, Southeast…
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Daniel Handler Finds Himself In a Lemony Snicket After ‘Ill-Conceived’ Watermelon Joke
Updated Fri., Nov. 21, 11:45 p.m. EST: Dan Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket, issued yet another apology on Friday for a joke he made while hosting the National Book Awards ceremony about black author Jaqueline Woodson being allergic to watermelon. In his new apology, as a gesture of good intentions, Handler donated $10,000 to We…