The 2016 Rio Olympic Games was the birthplace for many firsts. But when it came to Muslim women in the coverage of the 2016 Olympics, a great deal of it was focused on how female athletes who wore the ...

Before Glow by Jennifer Lopez, Heat by Beyoncé, Curious by Britney Spears, Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker and Crystal Gardenia by Kim Kardashian West, there was White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor. In ...

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions and true accounts of self-harm. “This is for all my real friends out there,” said a girl with pastel pink hair on TikTok. She was sitting on the side ...

On Thursday, Pearson, an education publishing company, apologized for publishing a nursing textbook section that contained racist material about treating patients from different cultural backgrounds ...

The "mannequin challenge," the new trend in which groups of people hold a statuesque pose, has gone viral. After a number of publications discovered the latest Twitter sensation last week, the ...

When Lady Gaga performed her Sound of Music tribute at the Oscars in February, many onlookers were genuinely surprised by Mother Monster's chops. Critics had assumed she was all meat dress and no ...

The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer of 1963, ...

In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of ...

The new year wasn't always celebrated in January, according to History.com. The Ancient Roman calendar used to follow the lunar cycle, and had the new year beginning in March. Sosigenes, an astronomer ...

It’s safe to assume that few moviegoers went to see It this weekend looking for a treatise on race in America. Most went to be terrified by the demon clown introduced in Stephen King’s 1986 novel, and ...

When Jimmy Kimmel went on summer hiatus in June, he figured the pandemic would be mostly over by the time he came back in September. He told his still-masked at half capacity audience in Los Angeles ...

Piano lessons are sort of like braces. For a few years, everyone's parents paid a lot of money so their children could contort their bodies (fingers; teeth) and lie about doing something daily that, ...