On February 26, closing out Black History Month, I came to Joe's Pub for Strange Fruit — produced and directed by Venus Cuffs — to listen and be educated. Showing up, paying attention, and letting art ...

Billie Holiday rose from poverty and trauma to become one of the most influential jazz singers in history, her voice instantly recognizable for its emotion and raw vulnerability. In 1939, she recorded ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.; March 2, 2026 – NPR is standing up for the public's right to ask hard questions in a national campaign dubbed "For your right to be curious." At NPR's headquarters, on billboards in ...

Many of us have had that one friendship - you know, the one where you get really close really fast and then the real world gets in the way. The friendship falters, and suddenly, it has been a decade ...

The live-action Life is Strange adaptation in the works for Amazon Prime Video has found its Max Caulfield and Chloe Price. Photography student Max, the protagonist of Life is Strange's original and ...

Maisy Stella (My Old Ass) and Tatum Grace Hopkins (The Queen of Versailles) are set as the two leads, Chloe and Max, in Prime Video‘s Life Is Strange, its upcoming live-action series based on the ...

The “Life Is Strange” series adaptation at Amazon Prime Video has found its two leads. Variety has learned exclusively that Maisy Stella and Tatum Grace Hopkins have been cast in the roles of Chloe ...

Historians have argued the last lynching happened in 1981, but a report by JULIAN suggests Black folks are still being targeted because of their skin. A 39-year-old Black man, Tory Medley, was found ...

For 11 days in late summer 2025, Aleksey Maro found himself in the Ugandan rainforest, doing whatever he could to collect chimpanzee urine. "The most consistent, predictable time is in the morning.