The City Council of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, approved what’s believed to be the country’s first government reparations program for African Americans Monday, March 22nd, the Chicago Tribune reports. The program aims to address discriminatory housing practices and policies that have impacted black residents for decades. Evanston pledged to distribute $10 million over
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Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder after a mass shooting left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, Monday, March 22nd. Boulder Police confirmed Alissa, who lives in Arvada, Colorado, was the suspect in the shooting in a statement released Tuesday morning, March 23rd.
GLAAD has announced a new slate of special guests that will be appearing at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, airing Thursday, April 8th at 8:00 p.m. ET on GLAAD’s YouTube channel. The lineup for the ceremony includes Sam Smith, Laverne Cox, Katy Perry, JoJo Siwa, Dan Levy, Sterling K. Brown, Jim Parsons, Wilson Cruz,
Marvel announced that the first gay Captain America in the superhero’s 80-year history will be revealed in an upcoming issue. In the limited series The United States of Captain America, Steve Rogers (the original Captain America) and other characters who donned the costume go on a road trip across the U.S. to find his stolen
Following weeks of speculation, the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government announced Saturday that spectators traveling from overseas would be barred from attending the Tokyo Olympics, currently scheduled to begin July 23rd. “Currently, the COVID-19 situation in Japan and many other countries around the world is still very challenging and a number of variant
A few years back, William Morris came to realize just how he could be a light unto the world. Before this precise moment in time, his visions of a missionary life had involved foreign climes, distant shores, desecrated wastelands in desperate need of redemption. Then he had looked around at his native L.A. At the
On the day he almost died, Kimbal Musk had food on the brain. The internet startup whiz, restaurateur, and younger brother of Tesla’s Elon had just arrived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from a 2010 TED conference where chef Jamie Oliver had spoken about the empowerment that could come from healthy eating. This was something Musk
The WWE has announced that WrestleMania 37 is going to take place in front of a live audience for the first time since the onset of Covid-19. The news broke shortly after Super Bowl LV, which was played in front of a partially filled stadium in February. If you’re curious about attending, or want to
Two years ago, a South Carolina fourth grader wrote an essay about transgender rights that was censored by her school principal. After the principal refused to include the paragraph in a collection of fourth grade essays, the student’s mother sued the school for violating her daughter’s First Amendment rights. Unfortunately, earlier this month a federal
One of the women who first came forward with allegations of sexual abuse against Armie Hammer has accused the actor of “violently” raping and assaulting her during an April 2017 encounter that the Los Angeles Police Department is now investigating. At a press conference Thursday, the woman named “Effie” — also the name of the
During the early days of the QAnon movement — before the Capitol Riot insurrection, before the #StoptheSteal movement, and before believers like Marjorie Taylor Greene transitioned from the annals of Conspiracy YouTube to the halls of Congress — there was a longstanding debate within the media whether it was worth covering QAnon. At first, those
Eight people — including six women of Asian descent — were killed in a string of shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors that appeared to target the Asian-American community. The first shooting took place at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Young’s Asian Massage in the Atlanta suburb of Acworth; four people were killed — two Asian
On Tuesday night, authorities reported that a mass shooter had gone on a rampage in the Atlanta area, targeting three massage parlors and spas in the process. The shooter, Robert Long, killed eight people, including six Asian women. The news was met with an outpouring of grief on social media Tuesday, with many placing the
In his first interview with Time Magazine since coming out as transgender last December, actor Elliot Page opened up about his childhood, his gender identity, and the political climate surrounding LGBTQ rights. Page, who stars in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy and most famously received an Oscar nomination for Juno, came out as trans in a statement he shared on his
When Angeline Boulley was working on her young adult fiction debut, The Firekeeper’s Daughter, she decided she needed to know how to make meth. “I learned how to make meth from the State Police Academy,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I was able to take a workshop at the Academy and it was about learning how
Podcast studio Wondery has released the first audio trailer for Spy Affair, a new six-part miniseries. The show, which premieres March 30th on Apple Podcasts, investigates the true story of Russian gun advocate Maria Butina, who was convicted in 2018 of conspiring to act as a foreign agent within the United States. Amid the politically charged
Rightly or wrongly, Pope Francis has long enjoyed the reputation as the “cool pope,” a view that has been bolstered by, among other things, his public statements in support of the theory of evolution and a 2014 profile in the pages of this magazine. A documentary released last fall even appeared to suggest his emerging
According to most standards, Harkirat Anand did everything right. He went to one of the best schools in the country, Washington University in St. Louis. He focused on STEM fields, double-majoring in economics and math. And when he finished his internship with a major telecommunications firm during his junior year, the company offered him a
British actress Nathalie Emmanuel kicked off this latest episode of “The First Time” by sharing how she first got involved with her latest project, Audible’s The Coldest Case. Her agency first reached out to her about the opportunity at the beginning of the first Covid-19 lockdown in London. “Everyone was working from home, working remotely,”
At the end of 2011, Al Harrington’s 79-year-old grandmother Viola came to visit. When the Denver Nuggets star discovered that she was taking multiple medications for glaucoma, diabetes, and high blood pressure, he told her that he’d recently read about treating glaucoma with cannabis, and asked if she’d consider it. This was Colorado, after all