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At the Supreme Court building, there is a small exhibition tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary, titled “Revolutionary Arguments: The Legal Fight for Independence.” The modest ground floor display focuses on how some of the “lawyers, statesmen, and soldiers—some of whom would later become Justices…
When Serena Williams stepped away from tennis in 2022, she refused to use the word retirement. Instead, in a farewell essay , she said she was “evolving away from tennis.” She wanted to expand business ventures and grow her family — her second daughter was born a year after her last professional mat…
The United States is on its way to banning or severely restricting birth control. I know this statement will be met with incredulity—but I would refer you to the disbelief so many of us in the reproductive health field faced when we warned that the constitutional right to abortion was in danger.
“It’s fun being able to see Black girls get to be rock stars and pop stars and not being put into one little box of what’s acceptable."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. The high court’s decision not to hear Trump’s appeal marks the president’s latest loss in a seven-year legal battle with Carroll,…
Updated on June 29 at 3:50 p.m. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” – a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific time period – to obtain evidence used to …
Click to expand Image An older couple shelters from the sun under an umbrella near the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, Ile-de-France, France, on June 26, 2026. © 2026 Gauthier Bedrignans/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images As Europe swelters through the second intense heat wave of 2026, governments are&nbs…
Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her mo…
When people think about the major queer meccas of the United States, they may think of New York City’s West Village , San Francisco’s Castro district , and Philadelphia’s Gayborhood . Less well known is Womontown, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri that was transformed into a lesbian utopia in …
Click to expand Image Bangui, Central African Republic. © 2016 Reuters On June 12, the Central African Republic accepted 18 men and women of other nationalities deported from the United States, despite its own fragility as a country recovering from decades of conflict and suffering a protr…
The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will not hear an appeal by President Donald Trump seeking review of the $5 million jury verdict entered against him in the sexual abuse and defamation case filed by journalist E. Jean Carroll.
Good morning, and welcome to a new week and another opinion announcement day. We will be live blogging beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT. We are expecting eight more decisions in argued cases (which are likely – though not guaranteed – to come down by the end of this week), including Trump v.
Click to expand Image A column of black smoke rises above buildings in Bamako on April 26, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups and Malian armed forces and their allies have committed serious abuses against civilians since fighting escalated in Mali in April 2026,…
Tonight, Black Hollywood took to Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for the 2026 BET Awards, an annual celebration of the best in Black entertainment. Hosted by comedian Druski, the show will feature performances from entertainers including Cardi B and Kehlani, who will both perform at ESSENCE Festival …
For more than 350,000 Haitians and roughly 6,000 Syrians living legally in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe is not simply another legal ruling.
Just days after World Refugee Day, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a significant victory on immigration, allowing it to revive a policy that turns away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border before they have an opportunity to present their claims. In Mullin v.
Cardi B will take center stage at this year’s ESSENCE Festival of Culture in New Orleans for her debut performance at The Party With a Purpose—marking a major cultural moment for one of music’s most influential voices.
The ballot box is an economic instrument—and Black America is living the proof. The numbers don’t lie, even when we wish they would. Black unemployment sits at 7.5 percent, the highest it’s been in years. More than 400,000 Black workers are out of a job.
This week, Trump cancelled a planned signing ceremony for the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act—which would help address the worsening housing affordability crisis—and said he won’t sign it unless Republicans in the Senate vote to pass the SAVE America Act.
A viral tweet started as a dig at young women. Then, Gen Z and millennials turned it into something so much bigger.
As Hollywood prepares to introduce Supergirl to a new generation with Craig Gillespie’s upcoming feature film, it’s crucial to remember that her greatest battle was never against a supervillain, but a culture that never seemed entirely comfortable with a woman occupying the same space and possessing…
Growing up, Matthew didn’t believe marriage would be part of his story. He rarely saw Black gay men in loving, committed relationships . There weren’t many examples in his own life, and he didn’t see couples that looked like him on television either.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a weekly compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S.
In 2023, Kendra Anderson did something that should have been simple, but changed everything: she searched Google for caviar. She was sitting on her couch in Chicago during COVID, craving something she’d once accessed fairly easily through wholesale suppliers.
Amazon Prime Day has become one of the biggest shopping events in the country, but its success tells a story far bigger than discounts. In an economy where families are struggling with the cost of groceries, rent, healthcare and childcare, the appeal of lower prices is understandable.
Click to expand Image Marchers with the Greater Seattle Business Association, Washington State's LGBTQ+ and allied chamber of commerce, during the annual Seattle Pride Parade, June 25, 2023. © 2023 Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo When the Egypt and Iran teams meet at Lumen Field in Seattle tonight, soccer f…
New Orleans is calling — and this year, the party starts before the sun goes down. The 2026 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® daytime experience at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is a full destination in its own right, with world premieres, exclusive first looks, culinary moments, wellness sessio…
Pharrell Williams continues to redefine modern menswear at Louis Vuitton . And for Spring/Summer 2027, he found inspiration in an unexpected muse: the surfer. Rather than leaning into beachwear clichés, Williams translated the effortless ease of surf culture into elevated tailoring, creating a colle…
Just days after World Refugee Day, the Supreme Court issued two immigration decisions that dramatically narrow protections for asylum seekers and Temporary Protected Status holders: Mullin v. Al Otro Lado and Mullin v. Doe .
Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest. Sen.
Scholar Robert Dahl, writing back in 1957 , once remarked that “Americans are not quite willing to accept the fact that [the Supreme Court] is a political institution and not quite capable of denying it; so that frequently we take both positions at once.
On this day in 2015, the court decided Obergefell v. Hodges , recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. At the Court On Thursday, the court released its opinions in four cases: Mullin v. Doe , Wolford v. Lopez , Mullin v. Al Otro Lado , and Monsanto v. Durnell . In Mullin v.
This week, Pharrell presented his spring/summer 2027 menswear collection on Paris’ hottest day on record. Held the same time as the famous Fête de la Musique festival, the streets outside the show were just as hot, so Pharrell transported the front row to an indoor beach.
"been on my last straw for bout 300 straws now"
Martha Kempner was Rewire News Group ’s first sex columnist. One of her first columns for RNG , published back in 2010, derided Tiger Woods for using “sex addiction” as an excuse for bad behavior . Talk about a throwback! She returned to Rewire this year to reboot her sex column for the modern era—o…
This story was produced by El Tímpano , a civic media organization serving and covering the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities. The original version of the story can be found here . In 2024, Guadalupe Maribel Aguilar Martín became a U.S.
The Central Oregon Irrigation District diverts water from the Deschutes River through hundreds of miles of canals, pipes and ditches to irrigate high desert lands near Bend and Redmond, Oregon. Brandon Swanson/OPB Chris Casad awakens each day before dawn on the Central Oregon property he bought nine…
Click to expand Image A same-sex couple hold hands during an event to raise awareness of gay rights in Hong Kong on May 25, 2019. © 2026 Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – The censorship of prominent social media accounts, foreign films, and events with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transge…
Q&A with Jamie Vernaelde, Ipas senior researcher The lead author of Ipas’s Future Proofing: The Professionalization of an Anti-Rights Youth Generation explains why this trend matters now—and what sexual and reproductive health and rights movements must do to counter it.
Don’t miss out on Essence Festival of Culture—tickets here: Get Tickets In just one week, New Orleans will be a hotspot for the city’s biggest family reunion of the year: the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture . But, even the healthiest family members can use a little more healing.
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