By: Georgia Lee
You know Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Muhammad Ali. But do you know Sam Cooke? Chances are he was born, blew up, and cut down before your time. He was not quite lost to the annals of history even if you've never heard of him.
By: Kaytie Norman
For reasons that could likely only be decoded by someone with detailed access to Nielsen ratings and Netflix algorithms, our culture seems to be becoming more and more enamored with Hallmark-style Christmas movies.
By Jenny Hedger
Three seasons in and Riverdale is still going strong. Despite its branding as guilty-pleasure TV, critics have been kind the show, a teenage-noir reboot of the Archie comic books. It’s been called “daring” and “addictive” but also “odd.” That’s fair enough. Faithful fans of the comics might be perplexed or even alarmed given how many scenes open with Archie working out shirtless and, you know, all the murder. From the get-go, it’s clear that Riverdale isn’t the Archie Americans will remember reading in the grocery store check-out line.
