Marsai Martin has always been a performer. As a toddler, she would sit in front of the TV, watching and memorizing the lines from her favorite films. Her mother, Carol, realized this was special ...

6. With kids comes the pressure to make perfect choices. Although people who don't want to have kids are often called "selfish," our survey showed they're anything but. If nothing else, our ...

So to recap, based on the research so far, a low dose of cannabis could increase creativity if you're not that creative to begin with. And for now, we can say it may do so in the short term ...

The late ‘60s marked a sharp increase in Black independent bookstores, and the timing of the surge — during the height of the Black Power Movement — was no coincidence. Hoover was right ...

On Sunday, three people were shot dead at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area. It's believed that the suspect — identified as Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73 — was once the ...

Growing up, the Reverend Traci Blackmon was taught that abortion was murder. Everyone in her life, including her Baptist pastor grandfather, would have said so. Then, when she was 16, she got ...

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer ...

In recent years, schools across the United States have increasingly adopted artificial intelligence technologies to monitor students’ online activities, aiming to prevent violence and protect ...

TikTok and Instagram stays spilling over with some variation of this advice, usually aimed at BIPOC, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities. As I scroll through these posts, I recall ...

The New York Times featured a story this weekend charting the relationship between Americans' geographic birth place and their future success and fame. (The piece measures success and fame by the ...

As recently as October 2016, Obama had expressed more skepticism about the idea of a UBI. In an interview with Wired at the time, Obama questioned whether a UBI could earn enough support from the ...

We all know by now that fast fashion is a raging enemy of the environment. It never looks like “the real thing” because it’s made quickly by grossly underpaid workers using chintzy materials ...