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In its sixth week in theaters, Tenet earned just $2.1 million domestically, pushing its U.S. total to $48.3 million. The Christopher Nolan-directed film has undoubtedly felt the absence of the New York market. While 48 states have reopened their indoor movie theaters in some form, New York has remained closed since March at the behest of Governor […]
Amy Coney Barrett is facing additional criticism over a controversial ruling in a workplace discrimination case. The conservative Supreme Court nominee was pressed on the issue during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing, when Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) expressed concern over Barrett’s position on racial bias in the criminal justice system. Barrett told the former presidential candidate she was convinced such bias […]
Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a […]
Germany has agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars to help Holocaust survivors during the global coronavirus pandemic. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announced this week, per the Associated Press, that the new payments will be distributed to an estimated 240,000 survivors around the world. In a statement shared Tuesday, Gideon […]
Dutch physicians have recorded the first known death due to coronavirus reinfection. According to a report cited by CNN, an 89-year-old woman recently died after contracting COVID-19 for the second time. The patient was said to be immunocompromised as she was also receiving treatment for a rare type of blood cell cancer called Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia; however, experts said her immune […]
Megan Thee Stallion has become a microcosm of what it’s like to be a Black woman in America. Although she is love and adored, she’s simultaneously objectified and reminded that her pain isn’t weighed on the same scale as her male counterparts. This was once again proven to be true when fans started to critique her latest […]
COVID-19 continues to be a confusing medical mystery. On Tuesday, CNBC reported that a 25-year-old Nevada man contracted the coronavirus on two separate occasions. This is the first reported case in the United States when a patient was re-infected with COVID-19 and only the fifth known case globally. To make matters more mysterious, the Washoe County resident […]
Johnson & Johnson is temporarily pausing dosing in all its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial, which was detailed in a press release last month as a potentially “pivotal” global effort that would build on the successes of positive interim results from prior phases. In a statement shared on Monday, a […]
In a new op-ed, Megan Thee Stallion—who recently included an inspiring message about the importance of protecting Black women in her SNL performance—further elaborates on the violence often waged against Black women and how the burdens many place on them are made even heavier during an election year. “I was recently the victim of an […]
Gisele Barreto Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania’s Lt. Governor John Fetterman, was called a racial slur while making a quick grocery store run on Sunday. In pursuit of some golden kiwis, Gisele went to a store close to their Braddock home. While there, however, she was confronted by a woman who was aware of who she is, and […]
