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Historical Context On April 29, 1992, four white police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were acquitted over charges they used excessive force when arresting Rodney King, then a 25-year-old African-American who had led police on a high-speed chase. The video of King being violently beaten by officers during his arrest was widely viewed in America and around the world after a nearby civilian filmed the events and gave it to a local TV station.

Spoilers for all seven episodes of the podcast S-Town. S-Town is about a man, not a mystery. The new series from the producers of the smash-hit true crime podcast, Serial, begins with the investigation of a potential murder, but by episode three it turns into an exploration of a single man’s life—and death. John B. McLemore reached out to the This American Life and Serial producers to investigate potential corruption in his “shit town” (hence, S-Town) and then took his own life.

"We thought they were going to run out of coffee before we could get a chance to taste it," Irshaan Mohammed, who is still a loyal customer at the flagship store, told AFP. "We couldn't believe how many people had actually come here." Mohammed, 23, said he loved "choosing ingredients and hanging out" at Starbucks, but "when it comes to my bill I always worry that I am paying too much.

Most people regard watching television as a passive activity. You sit, you watch. Occasionally, you change the channel. But a new study reveals that even this passive diversion may lead to actively damaging effects, particularly when it comes to issues of race. In a series of intricately designed experiments, psychologists at Tufts University demonstrate that subtle racial biases are often expressed by characters on popular television shows, and that viewers not only pick up these attitudes but allow them to shape their own outlooks on race.

March 23, 2015 12:31 AM EDT To prevent misuse of her name and image by opportunistic purveyors of adult content, Taylor Swift’s publicity team reportedly bought TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult before they became available to the public on June 1. From that date, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will release new top-level domain names to the public, ranging from the innocuous .coffee or .report, to more colorful suffixes like .

After Joshua's death, Okotie doubled down on his criticisms, describing the late preacher as a "magician” and "sorcerer." In a recent 75-minute video titled ‘The truth about T.B. Joshua’ which was posted on his official YouTube channel, Okotie said Joshua equated himself with Jesus Christ. ADVERTISEMENT He also said Joshua was a false prophet. “Joshua claimed he is the one that the Lord has appointed in this generation to bring reconciliation between God and man.

An Afghan I’ll call “Mohammed” saved my life, when he drove me into Afghanistan as Kabul was falling in 2001, after the September 11th attacks. He spirited me through a Taliban checkpoint between Jalalabad and the capital where just an hour or so later, a car full of journalists was brutally killed. Mohammed found me, then a CBS News reporter, a safe place to stay in chaotic, post-Taliban Kabul. That’s what a “fixer” does for a foreign correspondent: part translator; part driver and part Mr.

If you have ever attended a Hausa or Fulani wedding, you must have noticed certain designs on the bride’s body - her henna. Henna is made from the leaves of the henna plant (Lawsonia inermis), the henna dye is used to create beautiful and temporary designs on the skin, particularly on the hands and feet, as a form of body art. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdkuaqyxKyrsqSVZLOwu8Nmq6uZppq5cMDHnmSsoZejtqe1wpqlnJ1dpLNutMSnpZplmaN6r7vRrZ%2Beqp5iu6qzxKugmqZdrLKlsMinnqxnYZ%2B%2BpcLDpQ%3D%3D

Parenting is hard enough without any additional complications. So imagine trying to parent from prison. A new Netflix documentary film sensitively explores this challenge by profiling a father-daughter dinner-dance that took place at a Washington, D.C. prison in 2019, enabling select inmates to spend some quality time with their young daughters. The film follows four girls—Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana—over eight years, giving viewers an extended look at not only how they prepared for the dance and interacted with their fathers there, but also how they kept up with them in the years afterward.