At the elder’s call of "Kani Ka Pū," the sound of the conch shell echoes across Hanakaʻōʻō Beach Park, summoning hundreds of surfers and outrigger canoe paddlers to the water. They paddle out, their silhouettes stark against...
I can still remember where I was on August 9th, 2014. I was at work at my desk at the bank taking a break from banking customers struggling to pay their mortgages. I scrolled on my phone hoping to pass time on my favorite social media...
Freedom Waders is a short documentary by Alex S. Hinton about Velma and Norman Hill, who confronted mob violence to integrate Chicago's beaches at the height of the civil rights movement.
The owners of a Colorado funeral home have been ordered to pay $950 million to the families of 190 victims whose bodies were found decaying inside.The judge in a civil case ruled Monday that Return to Nature home in Penrose should...
“New ick unlocked” read the text on a TikTok I’d just opened. The video showed the back of a man’s head, his earlobe flapping in the wind. I laughed as I typed “ick” into the search bar, curious to see more videos on what...
WICHITA, Kan. — A rebuilt statue of Jackie Robinson in bronze will be welcomed home Monday by Little League players and former Major League Baseball All-Stars, just over six months after the original was destroyed by thieves.The...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confessed to retrieving a bear carcass killed by a motorist and leaving it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top 10 years ago in a bizarre new video he posted on X on Sunday.The video, which was...
The limited edition Celia Cruz quarters are officially in circulation starting Monday, the first U.S. coins to feature an Afro-Latina figure.Cruz, the four-time Latin Grammy award winner known for her Salsa hits including “La Vida...
MIAMI — A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby north of Cuba on Saturday and was predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico on a collision course with the Florida coast.The National...
The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency.The complaint, filed together with the Federal...
Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s past comment that Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic leaders are “a bunch of childless cat ladies miserable at their own lives” is the line that keeps on living....
The CDC recently announced new rules for pet-owners planning on flying with their dogs, a change they say will simplify the process for those arriving to the U.S. from countries that are “dog rabies-free” or low-risk. The new regulations...
The U.S. economy grew at a robust 2.8% in the second quarter, far faster than economists’ predictions of just 2%. The miss is reminiscent of a long losing streak for doomsaying about the U.S. economy. 2023 stood in the shadow of...
When my father arrived in America from Ethiopia in 1978, he was resettled, with the help of an immigration agency, to Peoria, Ill. He found a job working on the factory floor of a Caterpillar Inc. plant, and by the time my mother,...
In the past 10 years, headlines have been dominated by incidents of police violence, from the tragic killing of Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and most recently Sonya Massey to the numerous protests that followed. These...
WASHINGTON — The Senate is expected to pass legislation Tuesday that is designed to protect children from dangerous online content, pushing forward with what would be the first major effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies...
In 2021, I served on President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court Commission and submitted a report to the administration discussing potential reforms. Now that President Biden has endorsed some of those proposals, it is time for a more public...
Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, announced on July 22 that he intended to leave the highly iNFLuential position by the end of 2025. Under his 11-year tenure, Ford's endowment grew from just over $11 billion to just...
Thousands of protesters opposing the Israel-Hamas war descended on Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress. With chants of “Free, free Palestine,” they marched...
Several local Health departments in the U.S. warned residents this week that officials have detected mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus in states across the country. In New York, Suffolk County announced Monday that 16 mosquito...
President Joe Biden explains in an Oval Office address his decision to drop his bid for reelection and to throw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
