‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Featurette Dives into the Power of Writer James Baldwin

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is back behind the camera with If Beale Street Could Talk, the first major big screen adaptation of the work of author James Baldwin. It’s a surprising project for the director, mostly because James Baldwin’s estate, managed by sister Gloria Karefa-Smart, consistently says no to film adaptations of James Baldwin’s stories. […]

5 disparate ways to talk about politics with your family at Thanksgiving

Flickr/We Are Social Thanksgiving is a day for family, mediocre NFL games, voracious caloric consumption, and quite often,  political arguments that quickly devolve into fruitless acrimony.  The internet is filled with advice takes on how to politically engage your adversarial relatives at dinner.  The advice runs the gamut from meditation and deference to call-outs and […]

Legacies Recap: Let's Talk About the 'Stuff That's Not Supposed to Exist'

We all have our dragons to slay in life — some more literal than others, as seen on Thursday’s Legacies. With Rafael by their side, because he’s apparently as hot-headed as he is regular-hot, Alaric and Hope went hunting for Landon “Must be Addressed by His Full Name at All Times” Kirby, discovering something even […]

Single Parents Video: Angie and Poppy Talk Sleepovers (Adult and Otherwise)

When you’re a single mom, sleepovers can be both blessing and curse. Allow Single Parents‘ Poppy and Angie to explain. In this exclusive sneak peek at Wednesday’s episode (ABC, 9:30/8:30c), the women discuss how the nights that their kids spend at friends’ houses allow for the moms to have a little co-ed social time  — aka […]

Physics ‘invented by men’? Scientist faces backlash after ‘highly offensive’ talk on gender bias

A senior scientist at Pisa University has sparked anger following a talk he gave on the role of women in physics at Cern, the European nuclear research centre, in which he said that physics was “invented and built by men”. Responding to the backlash, Cern released a statement which said the talk given by Prof […]

Fighting talk: Rival fans troll Khabib’s football team with chants of ‘Conor McGregor’ (VIDEO)

Fans of Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg knew the perfect way to rile supporters of Anzhi Makhachkala in their game at the weekend, chanting the name of UFC star Conor McGregor – who soon fights local hero Khabib Nurmagomedov. Dagestani-born Nurmagomedov is a huge football fan and a big supporter of local team Anzhi, who […]

Chicago P.D. Cast, EP Talk Voight's Shady Deal, Tensions in Intelligence

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Wednesday’s Chicago P.D. premiere. Chicago P.D.‘s Season 6 premiere found the Intelligence unit fractured like never before. With Voight benched during the investigation into last May’s finale shooting, Antonio was put in charge. But Ruzek — who was upset that Antonio didn’t back up Voight’s story — didn’t show […]

College girlfriend of Kavanaugh friend says she’s willing to talk to FBI about explosive allegations

Win McNamee/Getty Images Elizabeth Rasor, who dated Brett Kavanaugh’s high school friend Mark Judge in college, says she is willing to talk with the FBI about her claim that Judge told her about having group sex with a drunk woman in high school.  Julie Swetnick, a third woman who came forward with allegations of sexual […]