Anadolu AgencyGetty Images This past Monday, 46-year-old George Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground and pressed his knee into his neck, while Floyd pleaded for help and repeatedly said he could not breathe. The officers were responding to “a report of a counterfeit bill being passed” when they located

Last Monday, a 46-year-old Minneapolis man named George Floyd was killed by a police officer named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck for close to nine minutes, including the three minutes when Floyd was unresponsive. Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder. This happened in the middle of a global pandemic, but

As protests continue, celebrities are taking to their social media platforms to speak out about the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and more black Americans who have died at the hands of police officers. This weekend, Lady Gaga posted her thoughts about the protests happening across the country. “I have a lot of things

This year, Universal rebooted its monster universe with Invisible Man, starring Elisabeth Moss, and is going to keep going with Wolfman, starring Ryan Gosling. Per Variety, the studio has been meeting with directors over the past month and should land on a name soon. Corey Finley, who directed HBO’s Bad Education with Hugh Jackman and

Kylie Jenner bought her first “starter” home in 2015, when she was only 17 years old. It was a $2.7 million dollar, 4,851-square-foot home that she sold in 2017 for $3.15 million. The makeup mogul has moved on to bigger properties since then, but the first place she called home after moving out of the

On Friday night, Beyoncé posted a video in which she expressed her thoughts and feelings following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer named Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into his neck for more than eight minutes. Beyoncé added a link in her Instagram bio for her followers to sign petitions

Like Catherine the Great on her wedding night, viewers’ expectations of Hulu’s The Great will look quite different from historical truth. The off-kilter series from The Favourite‘s Tony McNamara stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult as real-life Russian rulers Catherine the Great and Peter III. However, this isn’t your grandmother’s historical drama—and it doesn’t purport

Spoilers for the Defending Jacob finale, “After,” below. No one reinvents themself for the screen like Michelle Dockery. At the close of Downton Abbey, it seemed we’d never see her as anything but English nobility. Then came Good Trouble, and it was if she’d only ever been a North Carolina grifter. Godless followed suit, with

At some point you learn to speak clearly and slowly, to widen your eyes a bit, perhaps to smile, in situations where the underlying danger of everyday existence races to the surface like an air bubble in murky water. Of course you do this with law enforcement, at a traffic stop or in a random

Lady Gaga’s new album Chromatica is a personal look into her journey of healing in recent years. And one of the most empowering and intimate explorations of this process is in the lyrics of her song “Free Woman.” Gaga told Zane Lowe that the song is about how she moved forward after being sexually assaulted

In 2011, my younger brother Lee was stopped and frisked on his way to buy ginger ale at the grocery store on 216th Street and White Plains Road. Walking into the market, his black du-rag on and headphones plugged in, two white police officers stopped Lee and asked to search him. “What’s the problem?” he

Tom Holland may quietly be dating someone new…and in the industry. The Daily Mail reported on May 28, citing multiple sources, that the Spider-Man actor has been secretly seeing The Spanish Princess actress Nadia Parkes for more than three months and that they’re quarantining together now. Neither Holland nor Parkes have confirmed these reports. Parkes

If you’ve been missing your Friends during the pandemic, sulk no longer. HBO Max is now streaming all 10 seasons of the hit NBC comedy nearly six months after the sitcom left Netflix, breaking hearts and ending rewatches everywhere. However, the highly-anticipated unscripted Friends reunion with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew

Listen, we all have our security blankets. For many of us born in the ‘90s, that blanket is re-reading and re-watching the Harry Potter series ad infinitum. Yes, I like to believe my literary tastes have elevated since my days writing Harry/Ginny fanfiction on Tumblr, but I still get chills every time I hear the

Courtesy Just when you think you’ve seen all there is to watch, there’s more! This summer marks the launch of HBO Max, new offerings from the still-finding-its-legs Quibi, plus a slate of series from the usual streaming suspects. Search Party is returning, after far too long, and Ramy and The Politician will both be back