archiveFebruary 2021

The Democratic congresswomen of the House Oversight Committee are putting pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to lift the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone—a prescription medication that’s used to safely end early pregnancies in the United States. During the coronavirus pandemic, safe access to medication abortion is more important...

Photography by Vai Yu Law.Her collection of bright printed and embellished pieces allows her to stay connected to her roots. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date February 17, 2021 Facebook Twitter Dr. Liza Egbogah, a Toronto-based manual osteopath, fell in love with the flair of Nigerian dressing before she started wearing...

Last March, Julia Garner shot an all-day subway scene with 400 extras in New York for the upcoming Netflix series Inventing Anna. By the time she took off her wig, she heard production had shut down due to the pandemic. So, she flew home, fell asleep for a month, found...

Kenny: You go back to Emmett Till. He's a baby and he was murdered by forces because they saw him not as a child, but they saw him as a monster. And I think that's the thing about white supremacy, historically, is that African Americans aren’t perceived as human. We're...

Angie Arévalo died after she was stabbed by a 14-year-old during a family altercation. (TransLivesMatter.info) A trans woman has tragically died after being stabbed to death by a 14-year-old during a family argument in Columbia, local media has reported. Angie Arévalo died on Saturday, 6 February, after she was stabbed...

In “Viva Nigeria,” one of Fela Kuti’s earliest 45s, the Afrobeat pioneer proclaims, “Men are born, kings are made.” Kuti, who was born a man in 1938 and died a king of music in ’97, transformed his home country and the world at large into something more inclusive and compassionate...

PlayStation’s Jim Ryan has revealed that the PS5 will get a successor to PSVR in the future that will be a very different setup to the company’s original attempt at joining the Virtual Reality circus. In an announcement on the PS Blog, and during an interview with GQ, Ryan stated...

Tanya Tucker isn't looking to change things up too much after Shooter Jennings and Brandi Carlile helped make her last album, 2019's While I'm Livin', a 2020 Grammy Awards winner for Best Country Album. To wit, both heavy hitters will be back for Tucker's next effort.But that doesn't mean the...

Here's what reviewers are saying: "I wore these new pants last weekend, and I am so glad I got them. They fit perfect, including the length, which is really hard to find. I'm 5'7, 140lb and have a 33" inseam. I wear jeans underneath my ski pants. It was a very...

Montinique MonroeGetty Images Winter storm Uri has left Texas in a state of crisis. After days of frigid weather, millions were left without heat or electricity as snow, ice, and freezing temperatures "caused a catastrophic failure of the state’s power grid," according to the Houston Chronicle. As of Tuesday morning,...

Welcome to the latest episode of Too Long; Didn’t Watch, a new podcast produced by Rolling Stone and OBB Sound, presented by Google Assistant, and hosted by yours truly. In each episode, we attempt a new method of scaling Peak TV, by pairing a celebrity guest with a series they’ve...

While Paramount Pictures and a representative for director Jeff Tremaine did not respond for comment on the story, an unnamed source has told Variety that Bam Margera went "AWOL" from the production of Jackass 4 in its early days, and that it was only after some time that they discovered...

Heaven, one of London's most well-known LGBT+ nightclubs, has struggled to remain open throughout the coronavirus pandemic. (PinkNews) Jeremy Joseph, the owner of the G-A-Y nightclubs in London, England, has said the beloved businesses are “in serious trouble” amid the third lockdown. Just a day after prime minister Boris Johnson...

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