PAM GRIER IS A FOUNT OF WISDOM AND experience. So when her latest character, Constance, offers some advice in the debut episode of ABC’s sitcom Bless This Mess, you can bet it’s going to reverberate through the entire series. “The best kind of love a

CLASHES ON THE EDGE OF LIBYA’S CAPITAL Tripoli left dozens dead, after rebel warlord Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops on April 4 to take the city, located in the nation’s west, from the U.N.-backed government. The advance of the general’s Libyan Nat

MODERN COMEDIES TEND TO RELY more on language than on sight gags to earn laughs. But Little—its basic plot conceived by 14-year-old Marsai Martin, of black-ish, who also stars in the film—earns its greatest laughs by riffing on visual contrasts of bi

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Like many female scientists, Esther Lederberg saw her achievements overshadowed by a man’s. Now there’s a movement to tell their stories

THE CONTINUING REIGN OF KING BIBI IS ALL BUT GUARANTEED. Benjamin Netanyahu was on track to a record fifth term as Israel’s Prime Minister on April 10 after challenger Benny Gantz conceded defeat in what at first appeared to be a close contest. Both

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IT’S TOO HOPEFUL TO think the Flint, Mich., water crisis is over. Five years ago this month, the city began using the corrosive Flint River as its main source of water, which ate away the city’s pipes and leached lead into the drinking water of thous

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IN THE HOURS LEADING INTO tip-off, the April 8 NCAA men’s basketball national championship game received about as much love as a blister on a player’s big toe. Pundits and the general basketball populace lamented that the matchup featured two of the

IT’S SAID THAT HISTORY IS WRITTEN by the victors, but it would also be fair to say it typically isn’t written by people who are busy birthing, nursing or tending to babies, victorious though they may be. Such is the challenge faced by Sarah Knott, a

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DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS ROCK FOR MY PBS SERIES African American Lives 2, we traced the ancestry of several well-known African Americans. When I told Rock that his great-great-grandfather Julius Caesar Tingman had served in the U.S. Colored Tro