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In the 1960s, African American mothers noticed something wrong in their children’s seemingly innocent class photos. Every year, youngsters tidied up in their Sunday best for their school picture, which captured a milestone of childhood. But, after the Supreme Court desegregated schools with the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, these Black mothers saw something when their children brought these treasured images home: color photos of schoolmates sitting elbow-to-elbow didn’t capture Black and white children equally.

However, beyond what it's come to be known as, this highly anticipated day has a rich history that stretches back centuries. Long before Christmas became associated with Christ's birth, various cultures celebrated festivals around the winter solstice. The Norse had Yule, and many other societies marked this time with feasts and merriment, symbolising the triumph of light over darkness. Early beginnings of Christmas ADVERTISEMENT The earliest roots of Christmas can be traced back to ancient Rome, where pagan festivals like Saturnalia and the Kalends of January celebrated the winter solstice and the new year with feasting, revelry, and gift-giving.

Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition section is about to witness a miracle thanks to Tinatin Kajrishvili’s third feature “Citizen Saint,” about small-town miners suddenly discovering that their protector has literally come down from the cross and into their lives.  Kajrishvili, already known to festival audiences thanks to Berlinale titles “Brides” and “Horizon,” wasn’t trying to make a religious film, she states. She was more interested in the power of hope and the lengths most people will go in order to preserve it.

May 9, 2014 9:11 AM EDT James Franco stopped by the Late Show With David Letterman Thursday and discussed the racy selfies he recently posted of himself on Instagram. “James, why? Honest to god, why?” the host asked about the actor’s now infamous photographs, in which he nearly exposed himself. The actor, who is currently appearing on Broadway in the stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, said he wanted to set the record straight about his motivations.

In the chart week dated March 16, 2024, Kanye West & TY Dolla $ign's 'Carnival' featuring Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti moved on one spot to a new peak position of NO. 1. With rise to the summit of the chart, the single which is one of the songs off Kanye West & TY Dolla $'s collaboration album 'Vultures Vol 1' sees Kanye become the first rapper to log a NO.

Kevin Hart's Halloween costume might look a little familiar. In a video he just posted to Instagram, Hart paid tribute to one of his friend Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's best-known looks: the turtleneck, chain and fanny pack ensemble from the '90s that regularly does the rounds on the internet. Public opinion remains divided on whether it is an iconic fashion moment or an unconscionable one, but Hart's homage to the look was spookily accurate, right down to the feathery wig and his swaggering, lopsided pose.

On Friday, LaVar was asked on "The Dan Le Batard Show" why he decided to charge $495 for the shoes. In typical LaVar fashion, his answer was part confidence, part humor, part simplicity, and a whole lot of boisterous. "I figured that's what the shoe was worth," Ball told Le Batard. "I liked the way it sounds. You see, when you are your own owner, you can come up with any price you want.

These remote places have more impact on our lives than almost anything closer to home. Nothing on earth compares to the icy sweeps of the planet’s polar extremes. It’s why, perhaps, explorers and scientists who have been there often seek more distant analogies, describing the poles’ austere swaths of frozen terrain in lunar terms, unworldly with their slimmed-down palettes of white, black, and icy blues. Home only to the most exquisitely adapted organisms, the Arctic and Antarctic are largely lethal to humankind, unforgiving with their dark winters, harsh winds, and violent cold.

ONE Lately, most Americans, regardless of their political leanings, have been asking themselves some version of the same question: How did we get here? How did the world’s greatest democracy and economy become a land of crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government? As I tried to find the answer over the past two years, I discovered a recurring irony. About five decades ago, the core values that make America great began to bring America down.