The opening voiceover of Dirty Dancing sets the scene as a simpler, more peaceful time — a last gasp of innocence for both Frances “Baby” Houseman and for the country. “That was the summer of 1963, ...

On Sunday, three people were shot dead at two Jewish community centers in the Kansas City area. It's believed that the suspect — identified as Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr., 73 — was once the grand dragon ...

It was a warm Midwestern day during the last week of July and hundreds of activists were gathered at Cleveland State University. They had all just wrapped up a conference called the Movement for Black ...

"We're losing bodies as fast as we're losing languages," says prominent British psychotherapist Susie Orbach in the upcoming documentary The Illusionists. "Just as English has become the lingua franca ...

"We're gathered to celebrate Women's History Month, but I don't celebrate Women's History Month," announced writer Mona Charen, one of the panelists at the Heritage Foundation's recent panel on ...

If you’ve been on Instagram or TikTok lately, you’ve likely noticed a growing trend of A.I.-generated portraits of family, friends, and casual acquaintances. Sure, they may have sparked oohs and aahs ...

“What If We Didn’t...?” is a new series from Mic — read more here. Ba-da-ba-ba-bah, I’m lovin’ it. Can you think back to the first time you heard this little ditty? The McDonald’s jingle debuted in ...

It’s safe to assume that few moviegoers went to see It this weekend looking for a treatise on race in America. Most went to be terrified by the demon clown introduced in Stephen King’s 1986 novel, and ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks." According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15 ...

As the unofficial Queen of the Universe, Amal Clooney has the power to do what she wants — from putting war criminals behind bars (no biggie) to giving award-show pageantry the side eye it deserves.

TikTok and Instagram stays spilling over with some variation of this advice, usually aimed at BIPOC, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized communities. As I scroll through these posts, I recall all ...