The conversations over a Black actor like Lupita Nyong’o portraying the iconic Helen of Troy, “the most beautiful woman in the world”, reveal a broader discomfort with depictions of dark-skinned Black beauty in Hollywood.
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Women across the country expressed outrage this week over news stemming from the 2024 case of a young woman attending Cornell who alleges in a civil lawsuit she was pressured to take drugs and gang-ra
Kevin Kelley doesn’t waste words or time. As a sharp litigation attorney for more than two decades, and the owner/partner of Kelley Law Firm, P.C. , he gets right to the point—clearly, concisely and w
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“It was really more about authenticity,” Victoria Monét says about the duration between now and her previous release. “I wanted to take time to live in between the album so I can write from a place of
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MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide: the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives
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[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] The 2026-27 term doesn’t officially start until Monday, but the Supreme Court was busy this week adding cases to the oral argument docket, addressing emergency app
