When Lil Baby recorded his Grammy-nominated single “The Bigger Picture” last year, he didn’t expect people to even like it. “I felt like the song was going to be slept on,” he tells Rolling Stone, one day afterhe performed the song as part of the Grammys‘ most politically charged moment. …
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Twenty years ago, in The Village Voice’s yearly poll of music critics, one of the writers quipped about the future: “So who’s going to be paying $300 a seat for the Backstreet Boys reunion at AOL Hard Rock Cafe in 2020?” As it happens, $300 would have snagged you a …
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One of @OfficerCortese’s top-performing TikToks of the past few weeks shows him responding to the question “How do you like being a cop?” “I like it, but not a lot,” he lip-synchs to audio of Gru from the Despicable Mefranchise. It then cuts to a nonplussed Cortese against the backdrop …
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On May 21st, veteran AIDS activist Peter Staley marked the 30th anniversary of ACT UP’s “Storm the NIH” demonstration by sharing a video of the pivotal event to make sure the coalition’s demands were heard for greater access to and involvement in clinical research. The group’s protests helped wake the …
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“It’s clear to me that the only troops we should be sending in right now are the BTS Army,” James Corden said Monday night onThe Late Late Show. Corden dedicated a segment to the phenomenon of K-pop groups and their fandoms supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing …
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Policing in the United States has evolved throughout the centuries, but killing black people with impunity has been a common theme for what seems like actual forever. It feels as though the institution could use its own 1619 Project at times, sourcing policing’s Southern roots, at least, to some of …
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