Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

There's research suggesting that Black people need more sleep because of racism. Black women need even more because of the double whammy of racism and sexism.

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Another woman killed by the Texas GOP. Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.

Multiple people were shot in the area of Brown University, police said

Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues

Imagine living in a very pro-fireworks neighborhood in LA right now because: I do and that’s why I know what’s going on right now

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Minneapolis theater group doubles down on DEI initiatives as federal funding is threatened

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.

All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pacific Palisades fire is now most destructive in Los Angeles city history, with an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed.

David Zaslav, like so many other execs in creative industries and beyond, can’t imagine that something can be thriving and essential if it’s not growing exponentially forever.

Over the last month, Jezebel spoke with several health care workers on the ground in Gaza as well as humanitarian organizations, who described a war overwhelmingly victimizing newborns and pregnant women. www.jezebel.com/unicef-spoke...

It's December which means it's time to post the generic Hallmark version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" that the kids are calling "probably not legally actionable"

update: Penn just--finally--admitted they have Delisha Africa's remains whyy.org/articles/mov...