For 87 years, Washington DC’s football team has gone by the racial slur the “Redskins,” with a logo the head of what is referred to as an “Indian brave” (referring to a Native American warrior), a nod to the team’s original name the Boston Braves. After decades of mounting pressure from Indigenous groups and fans, the…

Matt Gaetz, who made headlines recently for revealing the existence of an adult son he had successfully kept hidden for years, appeared on Fox News over the weekend and said some truly dumb and racist shit, claiming that protesters are attempting “cultural genocide” right now in calling for statues of avowed racists…

On Instagram Monday morning, John Travolta shared a picture of wife Kelly Preston, writing: “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer.” A representative for the family informed people that she “[chose] to keep her fight private” and…

Johnny Depp’s libel trial against News Group Newspapers, publisher of U.K. tabloid The Sun, has entered its second week in London’s High Court. Depp sued the company for labeling him a “wife beater” based on 14 allegations of abuse made by Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard. On Friday, Heard’s lawyers questioned Depp about…

Hamilton is back in the discourse, for better or worse, and it’s also back on the Billboard charts, which I guess means everyone will have “Non-Stop” stuck in their heads again for the next six months. It will never not be 2016!

I have had very few delights in this pandemic, for obvious reasons. I bought a bike, which has helped a bit. But beyond that, one of my only joys has been keeping up with the penguins at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. With museums, zoos, and aquariums in Chicago closed up until recently, the penguins had free rein of…

In celebration of Disney World’s reopening after shutting down earlier this year in response to the still ongoing coronavirus pandemic that’s killed over 130,000 people in the U.S. alone, the Disney Parks and Jobs dropped a video over the weekend enthusiastically welcoming park guests “home.” Here, “home” refers to a…

Employees at a Santa Monica Burger King staged a protest on Friday after a coworker reportedly died from complications of covid-19. The employees say their coworker, Angela Martinez Gómez, was made to work even though she displayed symptoms. Martinez was transgender, and employees allege that management blamed her…

Disney+ is at this point pretty notorious for not letting anything good get on its streaming platform: there is little-to-no sex, cursing, or nudity, and there are multiple High School Musical installments and spinoffs. Lin Manuel Miranda famously had to edit out several “fucks” in Hamilton just to get Disney+ to…

While New York, once the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, announced its lowest covid-19 death tolls since March, other parts of the country reported staggering new numbers this weekend.

Marsha P. Johnson’s smiling face graced the halls of the Whitney Museum of Art last year as part of an Andy Warhol retrospective. Walking through the exhibition, I instantly recognized the S.T.A.R. revolutionary, color-blocked in the Warhol portrait as per the artist’s distinctive pop art style. Reading more about the…

Little known fact: Natalie Imbruglia wrote her 1997 debut single “Torn”* about the complex tension that I, me, specifically, am feeling right now between my desire to abolish all prisons and the delight I’m taking in Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli facing some consequences for their role in trying to maintain…

As badly as the novel coronavirus has ravaged the United States, the situation inside American prisons is many times more dire.

Who is the shadiest, most powerful, and most spiteful of them all? These are Jezebel’s definitive power rankings for Season 1o of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Results are tallied throughout the season, based purely on friendships, storylines, confrontations, confessional looks, and our very good instinct.

Valentina Sampaio made headlines on Friday when Sports Illustrated announced that she would be featured in this year’s Swimsuit Issue, making her the first trans model to appear in the publication’s iconic annual installment—at least the first one that we know of! In case you’re not aware, trans women have been…

Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers Hammer are getting divorced!