More than 50 years have passed since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Since then, we’ve come a long way as a nation—just look at our new Congress—but we’ve still got a long way to go. Poverty rates among black and Latinx people in the U.S. are more than double those of their white peers. The most…

Like many pop stars, Bebe Rexha is readying herself for the Grammys, which are coming up on February 10. Perhaps unlike some other pop stars, Bebe Rexha’s Grammys dress search is bumping up against fashion’s absolutely ridiculous sizeism, with measurement requirements so retrograde and stringent it feels like, I don’t…

Four women have been convicted of misdemeanors for leaving food and water for migrants crossing through a protected wildlife refuge on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017.

Brandon Truaxe, the founder of skincare company Deciem whose 2018 was marked by bizarre social media posts and an eventual ouster as CEO, has died. Employees of the company, which manufactures the cult skincare brand The Ordinary, were informed Monday morning in an email, as first reported by Fashionista and confirmed…

Cardi B is well known for her rigor in political science, her fandom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and her keen interest in current events. She is also known for not suffering fools and, over the last couple of days, has had to educate some unfortunate people who have come for her regarding her political cognizance.…

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) officially announced her bid for president Monday morning, simultaneously releasing a campaign video on her Twitter account while detailing her 2020 plans on Good Morning America. The clip emphasized Harris’s campaign slogan—Kamala Harris for the People—and the “values we as Americans…

It’s unclear how Billy McFarland feels about the dueling Fyre Festival docs released last week from Hulu and Netflix—if he was able to view them at all from his prison cell up in Otisville, where he’s serving a six year sentence for defrauding investors of more than $26 million for his nightmare event. You know who…

Lady Gaga paused in the middle of her set in Las Vegas on Sunday to comment on Karen “Mother” Pence’s new job at a Christian elementary school that disallows LGBTQ and trans applicants.

Sarah Jessica Parker has been very open about her desire to strap on those Manolo Blahniks again to reprise her role as Carrie Bradshaw, and now, she’s gonna do it in “the name of a cause we all care about.” Is the cause “So Sarah Jessica Parker can wear Manolo Blahniks again with or without Kim Cattrall’s approval?”…

The Crown is very quickly just becoming a collection of my favorite people, with Olivia Colman on board to play Queen Elizabeth II for the next two seasons and Helena Bonham Carter taking over the role of Princess Margaret. Now, the casting gods are giving us the additional gift of Gillian Anderson as Margaret…

In the wake of Katrina, Brad Pitt started the Make It Right foundation with the aim of building 150 green-energy houses in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Now, those houses are rotting and might explode.

After yesterday’s third annual Women’s March and the recent March for Life in Washington, D.C., Shout Your Abortion and The Illuminator collective projected a series of messages and facts about abortion onto both Trump Tower and a Union Square building in NYC.

In his first Weekend Update appearance since December’s alarming Instagram post, Pete Davidson joked that he’d had “a crazy month.” But in a segment featuring former SNL writer John Mulaney, Davidson seemed ready to be back.

WASHINGTON, DC — Shortly after 10 a.m. on Saturday, tens of thousands of people had already gathered for the Women’s March at Federal Plaza. As they waited in place for the march to begin, people milled around, checking out the creative signage that has come to define protest in the Trump era. Vendors had set up shop…

I’m guessing Wally is probably destined to join the ranks of peacocks and pigs not eligible to accompany their humans on airplanes.

Temperatures in New York City and Washington D.C. were near freezing for the 2019 Women’s March, which is cloaked in controversy this year, but the third annual march still drew an impressive, though smaller, crowd on the East Coast and around the world.