On Mo, the Netflix dramedy about a family of Palestinian refugees living in Houston, national labels are of deep importance. Throughout the series, Mohammed Najjar (played by Mohammed “Mo” Amer) struggles to hold on to employment—and any sense of security—because […]
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Early in Mufasa: The Lion King, one shot quickly differentiates the new movie from the other CGI-heavy spins on classic Disney cartoons. Just before a cast of familiar characters begins recounting the titular patriarch’s origin story, his young granddaughter bounds
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The poet’s work crackled with revolutionary fire but also contained jubilation and gentleness. Chester Higgins / Bruce Silverstein Gallery December 11, 2024, 11:51 AM ET Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories
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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The playwright August Wilson, who’s best known for his series chronicling 20th-century Black American life (colloquially known as the Century Cycle),
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By the time Martha Stewart rose to fame, family life in the United States looked very different than it had during her childhood. American mothers had entered the workforce en masse, and when Stewart’s first book was published, in 1982,
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Throughout Vice President Kamala Harris’s abbreviated presidential run, she often emphasized one key principle that separated her campaign from that of former President Donald Trump. When Trump mocked her laughter, Harris pushed back by framing her propensity for exuberance as
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For more than 25 years, some of reality TV’s most memorable—and villainous—contenders have declared that they’re “not here to make friends.” But on The Golden Bachelorette, the second Bachelor-franchise installment focused on a romantic lead older than 60, friendship isn’t
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For decades, the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been one of the most influential men in the music industry. Last November, the singer Cassie Ventura, Combs’s former partner, filed a staggering 35-page lawsuit accusing the rapper of raping, drugging,
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The show’s Season 50 premiere set the tone for how it will cover the presidential election’s final weeks. Will Heath / NBC / Getty September 29, 2024, 12:52 PM ET Last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the premiere of
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As an accessibility driver at New York City’s JFK airport, Melissa Jackson spends all day cheerily ushering other people toward the kinds of dream vacations she’ll never experience herself. The protagonist of Hulu’s How to Die Alone is terrified of
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