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Entertainment, Television

Will Smith Travels Pole to Pole In New Docuseries

The Oscar nominee once again teams with National Geographic to explore the Earth while traveling from the South Pole to the North Pole.

By

Stephanie Holland

Published

February 8, 2022
News

Barbara Hillary, the First Black Woman to Reach the North and South Poles, Dies at 88

If Barbara Hillary was going to go to the South Pole, she was going to make it worth her while. Hillary, a 79-year-old retired nurse, was the first black woman to ever venture to the bottom of the world in 2011 (just four years before, she became the first documented black woman to reach the…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

November 27, 2019
Culture

Trans Bathroom Panic: HS Girl Expelled for Kicking a Boy in the Groin After He and Others Crash Girls Room in Transgender Protest

A group of high school boys in the town of North Pole, Ala., (yes, you read that correctly), apparently took offense to a transgender student’s use of their bathroom and decided to protest by crashing the girl’s room. That boneheaded oh-so-thoughtful decision got one of the boys kicked in the groin by a girl who…

By

Dara Sharif

Published

April 16, 2019