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On October 21, 1966, a coal tip flooded by heavy rains collapsed in Aberfan, Wales, engulfing parts of the village, including the Pantglas Junior School, and killing 116 children and 28 adults. The disaster was dramatized for the first time onscreen in the third season of The Crown; the episode, titled “Aberfan,” details the day

WARNING: Videos in this story contain language that some may find offensive. Please watch at your own discretion. Are you sick of superheroes yet? Because The Boys are — and they’re coming back this September to take down a few corporately sponsored “supes” in Season 2 of the bloody, vulgar, irreverent comic-based series on Amazon

After Herman Cain passed away last month, his family and social media team decided to keep his Twitter account active. They’ve been posting all the same sort of pro-Trump, anti-Democrat, anti-Black Lives Matter nonsense the Black Voices for Trump co-chair posted before his death, but this weekend, the account also posted some puzzling COVID-19 propaganda.

Warning: This article contains sexually explicit language and may be disturbing for some readers. Please read at your own discretion. Following several charges of sexual assault laid against former porn star Ron Jeremy in June, the Los Angeles County District Attorney has filed 20 additional charges of sexual assault against the adult film actor. As

Boris Johnson was forced to curtail a family holiday in Scotland after the press appeared, revealed the remote location of his holiday cottage, and interviewed a livid nationalist sheep farmer who accused the prime minister of pitching a voluminous cream bell tent in his field without permission. Perhaps it was inevitable that Johnson’s trip didn’t

Welcome to another edition of Grooming Gods. This week: Dwyane Wade supports the fight for racial justice with his grooming game. Other people, they had good curls.   Dwyane Wade D Wade’s summer of wild dye jobs ends on powerful note.  Also Dwyane Wade Wade also paid tribute to the work of Dr King with

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant. Rep. John Lewis. And now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the deaths of several popular Black icons including Bryant, Lewis and recently Boseman, who died Friday. All three were viewed as leaders in their respective fields of sports, politics and film

Lady Gaga loves a performance that blurs the line between pop concert and experimental art piece. So making a string of pre-recorded audience-less appearances at the 2020 MTV VMAs look totally normal even while singing through various futuristic face masks seems like a challenge right up her alley. The pop star also made the most

Lady Gaga dominated the MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday, with a series of visually arresting outfits, masked performances and four wins, including artist of the year. Gaga, who went into the show sharing a leading nine nominations with Ariana Grande, stormed the ceremony with multiple costume changes ranging from an exotic bird to

Anadolu AgencyGetty Images Black Panther director and cowriter Ryan Coogler wrote a tribute to his friend and his film’s star, Chadwick Boseman died on Friday from colon cancer. Coogler wrote a tribute, via Deadline, to Boseman, in which he shared his memories of the late actor. At the end of his tribute, Coogler shares some

My regular record dealer was over at the house the other day looking to buy some vinyl I didn’t need anymore. “It’s over, man,” he said. “It was a really good run, but the whole vinyl thing is over. Yeah, COVID has been a problem, but there’s more to it. It’s the labels. “They got

“I haven’t grieved a loss this acute before,” director Ryan Coogler said in a statement released Sunday about the surprising death of his Black Panther star, Chadwick Boseman. He called the late actor “a man of faith, dignity and pride,” and an “epic firework display.” Coogler recalled watching an early cut of Captain America: Civil

[embedded content] In case you didn’t notice we love Lucifer. Well, the version of him on Netflix that solves crimes and looks dashing doing it. The actual devil?  He’s more complicated. In fact the devil and other dark and dangerous gods have been a part of mythology for centuries and a new twenty-minute featurette from

Thousands showed up to protest systemic racism and police brutality at the March on Washington on Friday, calling for racial equality by echoing the words Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offered in the same place 57 years earlier. The gathering came at the end of a convulsing summer following the killing of George Floyd at

During Mad Men’s heyday, Jon Hamm’s Don Draper was the man your man wanted to dress like: the generic-but-expertly-tailored suits, the skinny ties, the pocket squares, the tie bars. The show’s run from 2007 to 2015 was a boom time for your local haberdashery and perfectly coincided with the boys-have-swag-men-have-class era. Draper’s watches, too, were

Nelson Mandela famously said “sport has the power to change the world,” and that’s never been more clear than as of late. On August 26, the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team refused to take the court for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic. ICYMI (or are just not Raptors bandwagon fan, which, fair), the NBA is

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 29, 2020 10:57 am Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Representatives for Leonard Cohen‘s estate say they’re considering legal action after the singer’s iconic song “Hallelujah” appeared during this week’s Republican National Convention. Michelle Rice, a lawyer for Cohen’s estate,

Josh Gad, who co-starred with Boseman in Marshall, shared one of the last text messages he received from him. Sent during an unusually rainy stretch of Los Angeles weather, Boseman urged his friend to literally look past the clouds to focus on the “much needed shower.” “I urge you to go outside and take a

Five years after publishing the final installment in the Neapolitan quartet—the global literary sensation chronicling the friendship of two extraordinary women in four volumes (and later, an HBO/RAI series)—Elena Ferrante is back in Naples with The Lying Life of Adults, a brand-new story that probes the mind of a teenager grappling with facades, fictions, and

Devastatingly, and almost unbelievably, Chadwick Boseman, the star of Marvel’s Black Panther, has died at the age of 43 after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.  Despite a life cut tragically short, Boseman amassed a tremendous filmography. His legacy might be summed up in one word: Pride. In addition to the fictional T’Challa, leader

For months—months!—consumers and fashion industry thinkers alike have wondered what the pandemic would do to the shopping habits of Americans. For the most part, of course, a crunched economy and staggering job losses mean that many of us are shopping far less. But when people are shopping, are they more conscious in their choices, or

Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, has died after a battle with colon cancer. He was 43 years old. A statement posted to the actor’s social media by his family said Boseman had been battling the disease since 2016, when he was diagnosed with stage three. It

For many students, recent graduates and young people in general, the COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly stressful, especially when it comes to finances, and *particularly* when it comes to money and school. Between juggling university fees, stressing about paying off student loans and factoring in general expenses (all during a global pandemic), budgeting and financial

A statue of Princess Diana, commissioned last year by her sons, Princes William and Harry, will be installed at Kensington Palace’s Sunken Garden on what would’ve been her 60th birthday. The statue was supposed to be installed on the anniversary of her death (Aug. 31), but it was postponed due to COVID-19. A ceremony is

As a tabloid staple for the last decade, Kim Kardashian has become a master of media spin. The reality star is an expert at changing the pop culture narrative around herself and her family through strategically released storylines and images via her TV show, social media, and photos taken by her personal paparazzo. So it

Selena Gomez and BLACKPINK’s much-hyped collaboration “Ice Cream” is here, and it’s truly song of the summer material. The lyrics, primarily in English with a bit of Korean, exude confidence. They paint a portrait of a woman who knows her worth and knows what she wants: the right guy who values her for who she

For three days, Donald Trump’s surrogates have described him as a kind-hearted visionary who eschews identity politics, is a great friend to the most marginalized among us, who has faced the pandemic and other crises facing the nation head on, and who is America’s last backstop against the deprivation and anarchy his opponents, Joe Biden

There are movies in this world that aren’t meant to do anything except give you a sense of pure happiness, and that’s Bill & Ted Face the Music. As a fan of the original two, I was ready and willing for whatever Bill & Ted Face the Music gave me, but I definitely wasn’t prepared for the