New Jersey New King of Online Betting

from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) — New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state’s operators passed a major milestone. For the first time,...

The Vindicator Gone

from The Plain-Dealer The Vindicator, Youngstown’s daily newspaper, will close after 150 years By Jordyn Grzelewski American steelworker Charlie Grapentine reads about the Korean War in the Youngstown Vindicator in October 1950. The newspaper told employees Friday...

Symmetry

from Quanta Magazine The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries by K.C. Cole Rachel Suggs for Quanta Magazine The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and...

No Mo’ Mise En Sex

from The Washington Post via SF Gate Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it’s making movies less pleasurable by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post At the Cannes film festival last month, the scandal arrived with metronomic predictability: Quentin...

Black Bonnie and Clyde

from MTV QUEEN & SLIM INTRODUCES THE ‘BLACK BONNIE & CLYDE’ THE HARROWING AFTERMATH OF A TRAFFIC STOP GONE WRONG by BRITTANY VINCENT Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) and newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith have joined forces for a harrowing new drama...

Malcolm X, MLK, Queen & Slim

from BET Jodie Turner-Smith On Being The Malcolm X To Daniel Kaluuya’s MLK In ‘Queen & Slim’ The romantic drama from Lena Waithe explores a Black couple on a first date who find themselves on the run from the law. Written by Jerry L. Barrow Jodie...