The American Library Association (ALA) released a new report last week revealing that “[t]he number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles in schools and libraries.” For added perspective, this almost doubles the 2022’s number of 2,571.
The Los Angeles Public Library debuted Threads of Los Angeles, a new body of wearable artworks by fashion designer Ashley Walker, on Sunday, December 7 in the Mark...
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Authorities hunted Saturday (Dec. 6) for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail. The men slipped away after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating...
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Source: Getty Goonica ain’t going! Ray J’s continuous “crashouts” must be stopped, and Monica took care of business onstage by sisterly snatching his phone onstage at The Boy Is Mine Tour....
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Source: John Nacion / Getty Pharrell Williams may always be cool as a cucumber, but the recent backlash he received over his political commentary clearly has him hot....
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Before and after/ Courtesy of India Espy-Jones Over the past month, I’ve been in and out of a facial plastic surgeon’s office in midtown Manhattan. Not because I...
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