Since March 5, Ash Wednesday, Black congregations around the nation have stopped patronizing Target for Lent. The 40-day fast, led by Dr. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, was in response to Target’s compliance with President Donald Trump’s orders to get rid of diversity, equity, …

JoJo Siwa said her time on Celebrity Big Brother UK so far has helped her come out as queer. On the April 22 episode of the series, Siwa spoke with housemate Danny Beard about this shift in her identity, saying, “I feel, like, so queer, do you know what I …

Most of Shakespeare’s most famous plays have made it to Broadway. Othello is currently running with Denzel Washington at the helm and a production of Romeo & Juliet starring Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor recently wrapped, though the pop-inspired reimagining &Juliet is still playing. Another Shakespeare classic, The Taming of …

J osh Johnson can’t remember all of the details about this one particular bank robbery gone wrong. It happened in the Seventies, or maybe it was the Eighties. The amount of money stolen is hazy. But he can recall the parts that matter — the funny ones. “He ran up …

Police have identified two of the Jane Doe victims found along Gilgo Beach, New York — near the dumping ground of the Long Island Serial Killer — nearly 30 years after they were murdered. At a press conference Tuesday, Nassau County police identified “Jane Doe No. 3” — known as …

Thirteen songs into Goose’s Everything Must Go, one track before it wraps up, an unexpected twist arrives: a hint of edge. The narrator of “Silver Rising” is borderline unhinged, rattled by something evil in his back story. “I’m not the man I was/There’s a killer inside me,” sings main songwriter, …

Momma are hitting the road in more ways than one. In the new video for “Welcome to My Blue Sky,” the California bred, Brooklyn-based indie rockers travel through the small town of Yerington, Nevada with a camcorder in hand. The homemade, vintage-inspired aesthetic of the visual mirrors the style of …

I once heard a line in one of my favorite films, The Red Shoes: “It’s a far worse crime to have to steal than to be stolen from.” At the time, it struck me as poetic and unsettling. It challenged the way we view theft not as a matter of …

The Tennessee Board of Parole has recommended a pardon for Jelly Roll — who has spoken openly about his criminal record and time served incarcerated — following a nearly two-hour hearing Tuesday in Nashville. The board voted unanimously to pardon the singer born Jason DeFord, with their recommendation sent to …

The judge overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, has accused the Trump administration of engaging in “a willful and bad faith refusal” to comply with court orders and discovery obligations related to the case. In a scathing …