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Dan Mallory published the best-selling The Woman in the Window under the mysterious pen name, A. J. Finn. After years of praise for his genius mimicry of other writers and characters, New Yorker reporter Ian Parker uncovered Mallory’s history of falsifying life stories about disease and death to secure people’s sympathies, divert from his failures and […]

by Brittany Kirkland  Back in the day, when someone labeled you a “sellout”, there was no mistaking it. You were being called out as a traitor, and it wasn’t something to be taken lightly. What’s interesting is that as unambiguous as the term is, “sellout” is loaded for Black folk. It’s become heavily weighed down […]

The video game Watchdogs 2 opens with you having to hack into a server and wipe your criminal record clean so the police can’t use a predictive algorithm that predicts future crimes based on past actions. The algorithm leans heavily on using facial recognition databases to keep tabs on citizens. Of note, the protagonist is Black, […]

Given America’s legal protection of gun rights, the country’s near-deification of guns and its repetitive gun-related tragedy cycle, decreasing customer access to guns could seem like a recipe of ruin for a company’s capital, goodwill and public support. However, Dick’s Sporting Goods leadership reported a positive response to their decision to curtail customer access to guns […]

The greatest irony produced on Super Bowl Sunday had nothing to do with the game or the lackluster and unimaginative halftime show by some guy named Justin. Interestingly enough, it was produced when Dodge ran a commercial for its Ram line of trucks, touting ideals of service as an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King […]

People out to avoid the merits of certain claims often state some version of “only God can judge me.” The statement is expected to pause the progression of criticism and, with hope, allow certain allegations to fade. In the world of entertainment mogul and entrepreneur Russell Simmons, an analogous response about his generalized goodness was […]

Media is constantly evolving and industry titans are all trying different ways to keep up. Some are investing more in video and laying off their staffs by the dozen. Others are abandoning print versions of publications. And a few, like Time Inc., are focusing on their “core” products and selling off the rest. In an […]

While most of us see teenagers selling water bottles as being resourceful, police in Washington D.C. saw a criminal offense. Fortunately, someone else saw the early signs of entrepreneurship and acted on it. Raymond Bell, the founder and administrator of the HOPE Project, has stepped in to offer jobs to two teenagers who were recently handcuffed […]

A Minnesota man was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Hennepin County for shooting at a group of Black Lives Matter protestors in 2015. 

If you needed some extra motivation to finish that manuscript that’s gone untouched for far too long, here you go. An 8-year-old is now a best-selling author for writing a book about dealing with annoying little brothers. 

The world actually seems to be slowly coming around to the idea of seeing a woman wearing a Hijab and living an ordinary life. Proof of this comes as Nike announces that it will be releasing the “Nike Pro Hijab,” which is meant to be worn during sporting activities. 

Thousands of people from a variety of backgrounds met in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday to show solidarity with the Muslim community. Speakers from almost every faith imaginable, civil rights leaders and politicians came out to participate in a protest that was titled, “Today I Am Muslim, too”.