Audra McDonald responds to Patti LuPone’s comments about her: ‘If there’s a rift between us, I don’t know what it is’
Audra McDonald has responded after Patti LuPone said the two were not friends. Earlier this week, in a sit-down with the New Yorker, LuPone said McDonald was “not a friend.” In a clip from an upcoming interview with Gayle King shared on Thursday, May 29, by CBS Mornings, the 54-year-old Broadway star reacts to LuPone’s […]
Michael Brün is using music to make the world hear Haiti loud and clear
Whether you were born on the island or were raised in the arms of someone who was, there is an inexplicable yearning that Haitians across the diaspora share. A desire to return to the country they once called home, or being able to experience the version of Haiti their relatives speak so fondly of. And […]
Smokey Robinson sues former housekeepers for defamation over rape allegations
Smokey Robinson has filed a defamation lawsuit against four former housekeepers who accused him of rape and prompted a police investigation. Robinson and his wife, Frances Robinson, filed the counterclaim Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the women and their lawyers, whose allegations, they say, were “fabricated in an extortionate scheme.” The filing is a […]
What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?
President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to declare […]
Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87
In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature at the Nuria Bookstore for more than 30 years in Nairobi, said he enjoyed reading Ngũgĩ’s writing and is sad “he’ll never write again.” Following […]
Performers and opera lovers see ‘The Central Park Five’ as a show of resistance against Trump
As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage. The opera puts to music the story of five Black and Latino teens imprisoned for the 1989 rape and beating of a white […]
