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March 28, 2022

The Oscars Slap Divides Hollywood and Raises Questions

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards for telling a joke about his wife, it divided Hollywood, sparking denunciations, defenses and debates. The […]
February 10, 2022

Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There

On the first page of Will Smith’s recent memoir “Will,” the global superstar recounts a gruesome story of watching his father strike his mother in the […]
July 6, 2020

A Teacher Held a Famous Racism Exercise in 1968. She’s Still at it.

“It makes me really angry that I’ve been saying these things for 52 years.” — Jane Elliott, a schoolteacher turned anti-racism educator [In Her Words is […]
June 29, 2020

Is This the End for Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star?

This weekend, the YouTube beauty world erupted into drama. Shane Dawson, 31, and Jeffree Star, 34, two of the biggest stars on the platform, faced renewed […]