In what is shaping up to be the Twitter war of 2018, Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks continued to throw social media shade at each other on Tuesday.
It all started on Sept. 30, when Kanye West posted a photo of his MAGA hat on Instagram, writing that it “represents good and America becoming whole again,” then raising the idea of abolishing the 13th amendment.
Along with several stars, such as Chris Evans, Del Rey was not impressed, leaving a comment on the post blasting West’s support of President Donald Trump. Read More...
Playboi Carti and Kanye West are two of the most cryptic and mysterious artists in all of popular music. Both of them can sometimes disappear for long amounts of time and make announcements that don't go anywhere. Cardi spent the past few years nearly silent on the new music front. But across the second half of 2023, he finally began posting some new teasers about potentially releasing new music. That eventually paid off last month when he began dropping new songs on YouTube. Read More...
In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon of the Wall Street Journal argues that slavery did not end in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. He writes that it continued for another 80 years, in what he calls an "Age of Neoslavery."
"The slavery that survived long past emancipation was an offense permitted by the nation," Blackmon writes, "perpetrated across an enormous region over many years and involving thousands of extraordinary characters. Read More...