Borrowers may have less time to move their student loans to a different repayment plan than previously said, as the Education Department sent out a new wave of notices.

Detroit Techno Militia paid tribute to a "constant presence" that helped shape the Motor City's music and nightlife culture.

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CoreCivic and the GEO Group have seen skyrocketing profits in the last year as a result of their direct involvement in Trump’s violent deportation agenda. CoreCivic saw a nearly 70% increase in net in...

Tawatha Agee and guests toast the ’80s hitmaker & activist (“Juicy Fruit,” “You, Me and He,” “Would You Like to Fool Around,” “Breathless”).

The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

If the Trump administration’s efforts to revise history are even partly successful, we could see a startling policy shift in the U.S.

"People do have to understand that Hollywood is a reactive industry," producer Will Packer tells The Hollywood Reporter about the potential impact for the Halle Bailey-led film's box office result.

The ‘Sinners' director silenced skeptics by scoring big at the box office and making the most nominated film ever. After a decade of hitmaking, is he finally ready to admit that this is where he deser...

The latest federal jobs report reveals rising unemployment among Black workers, disappearing factory jobs and lopsided growth in the health care sector.

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NewFest celebrates the 37th anniversary of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

San Basilio de Palenque calls itself ‘the first free Black territory in the Americas’ – a referendum next month could win its own local government

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

Restorative justice is a process that involves repairing harms between victims and offenders, rather than simply or only punishing offenders.

The billionaire-funded propaganda group that demonized CRT and DEI just released a plan to make universities white again.

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s to a ...

The artist took the stage at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans as the last of eight acts Friday night.

Free jazz isn’t noise; it’s unchained, boundary-pushing expression. Explore the genre here.

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How activists are building solidarity in battleground states and beyond.

According to the research paper “Enraizando ante la Crisis Climática” by Amigxs del M.A.R., most people associate the impact on their mental health with Hurricane María

A young, queer marriage is torn apart by a monstrously charismatic narcissist.

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

Hear from Susan Rogers—who teaches the graduate course Psychoacoustics in Music Production for Berklee Online—about recording with Prince.

Arts for Art presents the annual Vision Festival celebrating Roscoe Mitchell.

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

Discover how African musicians revolutionized the electric guitar, from Franco Luambo’s Congolese soukous to Ali Farka Touré’s desert blues.

The president has frozen federal research funding for a host of American colleges and universities—even issuing specific demands of some top schools in exchange for federal dollars. These 39 instituti...

In the 1960s psychedelic music didn’t just inspire rock artists. Soul and R&B artsts like Stevie Wonder and the Temptations got into the action too.

Roberta Flack, best known for her '70s hits 'Killing Me Softly' (later covered by the Fugees) and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,' has died.

The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?