Dozens of civil rights groups have joined an urgent push for the compassionate release of longtime political prisoner Mutulu Shakur from prison. The 72-year-old Black liberation activist is said by prison doctors to have less than six months to live, after being diagnosed with stage 3 bone marrow cancer. Shakur was part of the Black […]
Photo: Dia Dipasupil/WireImage (Getty Images) Solange Knowles may have just single-handedly elevated ballet to the mantle of mainstream culture—a feat the art form has struggled to achieve over the last few decades. Audiences that were once comprised of well-off, elderly dance donors and stately socialites are becoming younger, less white, and clamoring for more diversity […]