If you were the President of the United States, and one of the biggest states in the country was being ravaged by…

John Legend is not here for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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The inconceivably long train wreck that is Kanye West’s Twitter account just hit a new level of messiness Thursday…
On a very rare Easter Sunday-April Fools’ Day hybrid, John Legend (Jesus), Brandon Dixon (Judas), Sara Bareilles…
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Last month, America saw one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history. The Feb. 14 shooting at…
There’s no other way to put it: 2017 was bleak. Bleak because the country’s top public health organization is now…
John Legend has been cast as Jesus Christ in NBC’s upcoming musical event Jesus Christ Superstar Live. NBC made the…
This week’s episode of Underground was titled “Whiteface” and it was so jam-packed with plot that I half-way…

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Full disclosure: I’m a fan of crappy singers. I’m mostly a fan of effort.