The Never Trumper Republicans of The Lincoln Project have mobilized former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s scathing broadside against the president in their latest attack on Donald Trump. “This is the story of a coward and a commander,” begins the ad released Friday. It notes that Trump “dodged the draft,” and now the “frightened” president “hides from […]Read More

Three years after its release, Kendall Jenner’s mess of a Pepsi ad has reentered public conversation as protests against police brutality and racism take place around the world.  Few can forget that two-and-a-half-minute disaster from 2017, but let’s refresh your memory. The ad, which Pepsi later pulled after an apology noting that it “missed the mark,” […]Read More

Lawmakers in Minneapolis are planning to vote on the first slate of changes to police forces following the death of George Floyd, with some local leaders saying they want to “dismantle” the department amid nationwide protests calling for systemic change. The Minneapolis City Council will vote on a temporary restraining order Friday to institute immediate […]Read More

When people discuss the great humanitarians of the 20th century, Herman Munster’s name rarely comes up. However, that may change thanks to a 1965 clip from the classic sitcom “The Munsters” that went viral on Thursday. The clip features Munster, played by Fred Gwynne, explaining to his son, Eddie, why character and heart matter more […]Read More

I moved to Los Angeles in 1992, the year a jury with no Black people on it acquitted the four policemen who had administered that horrific, now-infamous beating to Rodney King. I was 25 years old and had never before seen anything like what I was witnessing; the world was on fire.  A man with […]Read More

Who knew little black squares could be so polarizing? On Tuesday, many posted a simple black square and the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday on Instagram along with captions that expressed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The hashtag campaign ― which was soon taken up by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Fabletics to your mom ― […]Read More

After years of vandalism and calls for its removal, the hulking statue of Philadelphia’s late mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo was removed Tuesday by the city. Rizzo’s political career and heavy-handed police tactics in the late 1960s and ’70s were seen as racially polarizing and unfairly targeted minorities and people of color. Philadelphia Mayor […]Read More

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday promised an “era of action” against racial inequality if he defeats President Donald Trump in November. But Fox News analyst Brit Hume dismissed Biden’s plan to reform the criminal justice system, calling it recycled “black grievance politics.”  Biden’s call to action comes amid widespread unrest following a white police […]Read More

A Washington, D.C., man who is being praised for opening his home to protesters so they could escape arrest thinks the people he helped are the real heroes. “I hope that my 13-year-old son grows up to be just as amazing as they are,” Rahul Dubey, 44, told ABC news channel WJLA Tuesday after nearly […]Read More

Jimmy Fallon began Monday’s broadcast of “The Tonight Show” with an apology for wearing blackface in an old “Saturday Night Live” skit from 2000 that was resurfaced and went viral again on social media last week. Fallon, returning to air after a week off for Memorial Day, followed up his initial apology on Twitter to […]Read More