MSNBC Guest Sparks Controversy with Claim About White People© Provided by State Of The Union

An MSNBC guest claimed that white people had stolen every form of music except classical from black people.

The Daily Show correspondent Dulce Sloan argued in response to criticism of Beyoncé making a country album that if white people disliked cultural appropriation, they shouldn’t have created rock, jazz, blues, country or pop as they were all stolen from black people.

Sloan said, “If white peopl...

“I find it the oddest thing when people refer to me as a Black actor,” says Jeffrey Wright. “What is a Black actor? Is the process different for a Black actor? Is the outcome different? It makes absolutely no sense.”

At the same time, he thinks, considering the history “of limitations and false judgements” of Black people, maybe it does.

This tension is at the heart of Wright’s new movie American Fiction, liberally adapted by debut writer-director Cord Jefferson from Percival...

In the pre-pandemic days, the idea of the government — whether at the federal, state, or local level — offering someone a basic income guarantee, in the form of checks over an extended period of time, was not a mainstream sort of policy idea. Today, though, state and local governments around the US have undertaken a slew of these basic income experiments, offering what amounts to free money to broad swaths of their populations.

These payments are distinct from last year’s stimulus checks...

For the third night in a row, gunfire on the streets of the five boroughs has left multiple people injured — including a teenager in the Bronx Wednesday evening, who was clinging to life after being rushed to the hospital.

The gunshots rang out around 5 p.m. in the Williamsbridge neighborhood, during an apparent drive-by shooting along Burke Avenue. Two gunman in the back of a black SUV opened fire on four people, some of whom were innocent bystanders, police said. At least eight shots are b...

ATLANTIC CITY -- Firefighters rescued 14 people trapped for more than six hours in an elevator at the Tropicana Casino & Resort early Sunday by pulling them 100 feet by ropes to safety, authorities said.

Firefighters were called at about 1 a.m. after the elevator became stuck and efforts to get it working again were unsuccessful, the fire department's union said in a Facebook post.

The elevator was stuck between the sixth and seventh floors, and the next opening was at the 15th floor, ac...

"I'm gonna give y'all the reason why people believe 50," Rule said in an interview. "He's buff - he comes up here, he's snarling, ...