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Quote from ‘The Boondocks’ about having ‘eyes as blue as the summer sky’ offers a reality check It’s time for a reality check, this time from the television series “The Boondocks.” ...

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular ...

The jewelry designer wrote that on Christmas Eve, she had a ski accident while in Aspen. After getting a CAT scan, the medical team informed her she had a brain bleed and needed to be airlifted to ...

Or witness the juvenility of popular ... Lamparski/Getty Images; Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images. Helen Holmes is a writer and reporter in Brooklyn. She has covered culture for The Daily ...

"Jingle Bells" was also the most popular Christmas song in the country last year, claiming the top spot in 14 different states last year, more than double the number of states the second-place song ...

For a roughly 13-year period, from the mid-1950s until King’s assassination in 1968, pop culture became a conduit for the ideas ... mandated that there be more positive images of Black people in ...

An Iranian court has sentenced popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy, local media reported on Sunday. “The Supreme Court ...

The TikTok ban moves forward in the U.S. Here's what you need to know. Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images UPDATE: Jan. 19, 2025, 10:52 a.m. CST This article was updated to add Trump's ...

Take a stroll through Uecker's portfolio of pop culture. 'The easiest way to catch a knuckleball was to wait until it stopped rolling and just pick it up:' Bob Uecker was a character even as a ...

It’s snapped by USA TODAY Sports’ Scott Wachter. I’ve also included another view via Getty Images’ Ronald Cortes, and please: someone go hang in these in a museum or something.