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On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Byron Allen’s CBS program “Comics Unleashed” reached a milestone, outperforming “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” across both key ratings measures for the first time since taking over Stephen Colbert’s former 11:35 p.m. time slot. The comparison comes with important context. “Comics Unleashed” airs in two
Source: Handout / Getty The U.S. government hasn’t overseen a public execution in 90 years, not since the execution of Rainey Bethea, a Black man who was hanged in August 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky, before an audience of tens of thousands, after being accused of raping a white woman. It
Author and Emory University professor Tayari Jones has won the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her novel Kin, earning a $50,000 cash award. The winners were announced Oct. 7 at a ceremony in New York City, with the prize recognizing outstanding books across fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.
Belmont, North Carolina, USA – October 4, 2014: World War II Veterans give their attention to North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory during a speech dedicating of a statue to honor the Veterans of World War II. by Sidnee Michelle October 9, 2026 The initiative is the third installment in Decide
South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing a career spanning the fight against apartheid, international criminal justice and investigations into alleged atrocities. The 85-year-old received the announcement on Friday, October 9, while attending a gathering on international law in Nuremberg, Germany. Her selection
Source: Heather Diehl / Getty Look, some people just deserve to be bullied — because they’re bullies themselves, and many of them even have the nerve to be soft-as-cat-hair bullies. This is about “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth. Since this goofy-ass dork of a pseudo-manly man keeps calling military generals
“The Breakfast Club’s” Loren LoRosa didn’t plan to attend a historically Black college or university after high school. She just knew she wanted to do something great with her life. It wasn’t until she stepped onto Delaware State University’s campus that she began to realize how the HBCU experience would
As he faced Abdul El-Sayed on a Michigan debate stage Thursday night, Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers pulled out the oldest trick in the book: going after his opponent’s mother. But Rogers’s attack, which came late in the first of two debates scheduled before the midterm elections, did little to
Photo by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images by Selena Hill October 9, 2026 Wells Fargo is under a federal investigation over its pledged to help more Black Americans become homeowners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating Wells Fargo over programs designed to expand homeownership among
Source: Omaha World-Herald / Getty An Army study into electric gloves that could be deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found that they caused participants significant pain and fear. According to AP, ICE officials knew the findings from the Army’s study before they spent over $16 million to buy
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Byron Allen’s CBS program “Comics Unleashed” reached a milestone, outperforming “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” across both key ratings measures for the first time since taking over Stephen Colbert’s former 11:35 p.m. time slot. The comparison comes with important context. “Comics Unleashed” airs in two
Source: Handout / Getty The U.S. government hasn’t overseen a public execution in 90 years, not since the execution of Rainey Bethea, a Black man who was hanged in August 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky, before an audience of tens of thousands, after being accused of raping a white woman. It
Author and Emory University professor Tayari Jones has won the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her novel Kin, earning a $50,000 cash award. The winners were announced Oct. 7 at a ceremony in New York City, with the prize recognizing outstanding books across fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature.
Belmont, North Carolina, USA – October 4, 2014: World War II Veterans give their attention to North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory during a speech dedicating of a statue to honor the Veterans of World War II. by Sidnee Michelle October 9, 2026 The initiative is the third installment in Decide
South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing a career spanning the fight against apartheid, international criminal justice and investigations into alleged atrocities. The 85-year-old received the announcement on Friday, October 9, while attending a gathering on international law in Nuremberg, Germany. Her selection
Source: Heather Diehl / Getty Look, some people just deserve to be bullied — because they’re bullies themselves, and many of them even have the nerve to be soft-as-cat-hair bullies. This is about “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth. Since this goofy-ass dork of a pseudo-manly man keeps calling military generals
“The Breakfast Club’s” Loren LoRosa didn’t plan to attend a historically Black college or university after high school. She just knew she wanted to do something great with her life. It wasn’t until she stepped onto Delaware State University’s campus that she began to realize how the HBCU experience would
As he faced Abdul El-Sayed on a Michigan debate stage Thursday night, Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers pulled out the oldest trick in the book: going after his opponent’s mother. But Rogers’s attack, which came late in the first of two debates scheduled before the midterm elections, did little to
Photo by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images by Selena Hill October 9, 2026 Wells Fargo is under a federal investigation over its pledged to help more Black Americans become homeowners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating Wells Fargo over programs designed to expand homeownership among
Source: Omaha World-Herald / Getty An Army study into electric gloves that could be deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found that they caused participants significant pain and fear. According to AP, ICE officials knew the findings from the Army’s study before they spent over $16 million to buy