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Director Ava DuVernay’s four-episode dramatic series When They See Us becomes available to stream on Netflix on Friday, May 31st, 30 years and six weeks after jogger Trisha Meili was brutally assaulted in Central Park, her life forever changed. While many of us are familiar with the historic case that came to embody the state of race, class, and...
Jessica Richardson and her husband Sgt. Franklin Richardson were in Starkville, Mississippi this Memorial Day weekend, looking to spend the day with their dog at a nearby Kampgrounds of America, located about a 40-minute drive from their hometown of Macon. Their greeting on the grounds, though, was anything but neighborly: Within minutes of their arrival, they were held up...
When it comes to Latinos and cocktails, we’re all about fusion. Fusing garnishes, alcohols, tinctures, juices, and sodas. Our mixed race demands this of us. So, stop giving your guests the same tired cocktail or liquors served straight up. Instead, at your next gathering wow them with snazzy twists on some Latino classics and a few obscure libations of...
Viewed over one million times since it was released one week ago, a new ad from Gillette depicts Samson Bonkeabantu Brown getting help and encouragement from his father during his first shave. Brown, a clean-shaven transgender young man, talks a bit about his transition and how it helped him finally feel comfortable in his skin. “I went into my...
Australian Will Connolly, aka Egg Boy, will be donating nearly $70,000 to two non-profit organizations that have been supporting the Christchurch community ever since the mass shooting that took the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers in March. Connolly, 17, had received the funds through two separate GoFundMe accounts after video footage of him smashing an egg on the head...
When I was in my twenties, I made a vision board of all the goals I aimed to accomplish before turning thirty. I knew exactly what I wanted, and though somewhat far-fetched, nothing would keep me from accomplishing my dreams. Except, then life happened. A few stints of unemployment and dead-end jobs later made me feel like a failure...
If you’re someone who feels completely drained physically and emotionally drained by work, perhaps experiencing feelings of dread, detachment, or cynicism when you think about your job, take a minute to read this on your next lunch break: Burnout from work-related stress is officially a syndrome acknowledged by the World Health Organization. While not considered a disease itself, burnout...
Netflix is the latest studio to publicly state its position on whether it plans to continue filming in Georgia, following the recent passage of the state’s anti-choice, anti-women abortion legislation. “We have many women working on productions in Georgia, whose rights, along with millions of others, will be severely restricted by this law,” Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said...
The big summer reveal is almost here, and those countless hours in the gym is starting to pay off. As you reflect on your progress, you see that your waist is almost perfectly “snatched” as you anticipate the first big holiday weekend. Your girl’s trip is fully booked and you review that mental checklist of what needs to be...
Long before she was known as the wife of democratic presidential candidate, Julián Castro, Erica Lira was on a mission. As a San Antonio native and first generation college graduate in her family, Erica Lira has worked in education for over a decade, and has tirelessly sought to encourage more Latinos to enter the field of teaching. According to her...
Dinnertime doesn’t look like it used to. Gone are the days of sitting around a table with polite smiles, small talk, proper table manners and — gasp — eye contact. Now people spend most of their meals looking down at those damn phone screens, glued to their social media feed, news alerts, emails, and texts… Whatever it is that...
If the disco era were to be signed by one name in fashion it would read: Antonio. Hailing from a farm town in Puerto Rico, Antonio Lopez skyrocketed to international fame as one of the U.S.’s foremost fashion illustrators throughout the sixties, seventies and eighties. Until Antonio came along, a fashion drawing in a magazine was nothing more than...