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Politics Explained: How to protect your vote in 2024

On this episode of “Politics Explained,” Natasha S. Alford breaks down how voting rights matter but also can be withheld. She also explains how to check if you’re registered to vote or can vote early....

Dolphins coaches, players react to ’emotional’ and ‘triggering’ footage of Tyreek Hill traffic stop

Police body camera video shows an officer dragging Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill out of his sports car by his arm and head and then forcing him face first onto the ground after Hill put up the w...

Episode 5: Eboni K. Williams talks about the stigmas with choosing single parenthood

In this episode, Williams and Ellis talk about the stigmas associated with choosing to do parenthood as a single woman. Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. So why are some women ch...

Opening statements are set in the trial of 3 ex-Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death

People hold signs during a news conference discussing the death of Tyre Nichols, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Police cameras captured the beating of Nichols after a traffic stop on Jan. 7...

Mel B joins a campaign calling for a new UK law to bar Afro hair discrimination

Singer Mel B poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘The Truth’ and the opening gala of the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival, Venice, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2...

Harris praised after calling out Trump’s racism, embrace of hate and white violence at debate

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time during the presidential election ca...

Frankie Beverly, the soulful frontman of Maze, has died at 77

Frankie Beverly and the Maze perform at the Summer Soul Concert series at Newark Symphony Hall on July 12, 2009 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Frankie Beverly and Maze, ...

James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that

In this June 12, 2016 file photo, James Earl Jones arrives at the Tony Awards in New York. The Cort Theatre on Broadway in New York will be renamed after Jones on Monday, becoming the second theater o...

Kamala wiped the floor with him

Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, debates Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. president Donald Trump, for the first time during the presidential election cam...