CHENNAI, India — “We are in a golden age of entertainment in India — this is the best time to be a creator and consumer of great stories,” Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service, said in a post on June 2. Netflix is opening its first fully-owned post-production facility in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai, as the company […]

A decision to abandon the Keystone XL oil pipeline leaves Canada with an export problem, analysts said, but it may be a broader sign of an inevitable energy transition and evolution. In one of his first acts since taking office, President Joe Biden rescinded a permit for the cross-border Keystone XL pipeline, a long-planned artery […]

It was breakfast time, and Wanda Armstrong was rolling out the crust for her famous peach cobbler at Evelyn’s Soul Food Restaurant, a well-known dining spot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that’s frequented by NFL veterans, politicians and even the last astronaut to walk on the moon. By early afternoon, Armstrong has left Evelyn’s — which is […]

In a 2000 release, recording artist Nelly rapped: “I’m draftin’ ’em outta high school straight into the pros.” That was a reference to a then-growing trend among prep basketball stars: Bypassing college and entering the pro ranks as teenagers. Just a year prior to Nelly’s release, Picayune, Mississippi, basketball star Jonathan Bender undertook his own […]

In 2018, C. Von Parchman and Marty Arnold of 6x Entertainment were searching for something to sink their passion into. Instead of finding an interesting project, a project found them. Noted film producer Floyd Easley asked 6x Entertainment artist Tia P. to pen lyrics for a movie he was producing called “I Am A Man.” […]

Sandwiched between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, Flag Day isn’t officially a federal holiday. But presidents routinely issue proclamations every June 14 calling for the display of the U.S. flag, even as the government stays open and the flag itself acquires new layers of meaning. President Joseph R. Biden declared on Friday that […]

A teen who was shot in the head by a mugger 10 years ago still lives with a bullet lodged in his brain. Sebastian Bravo, now 27, works as a nurse in Argentina. X-rays show the bullet that has been lodged in his head since he was shot by a stranger while waiting for a […]

Seeing pictures of Dafna Ben Nun cozying up to Emperor penguins in Alaska or to beluga whales in the White Sea speaks volumes about how animals instinctively trust Israel’s only female professional wildlife photographer. “I’m not allowed to approach them, but if they come close to me, then it’s fine and it means that they […]

When a reed flute whistles in the distance, Mexicans born before the 1990s may know that an expert in the art of knife grinding could be around. For many, the knife grinders’ whistle triggers as many memories as the music of a typewriter or the tune of a train crossing. Upon arrival, the knife grinder […]

Over the course of a day-and-a half in late May and early June 1921, a white mob, angered by the alleged assault of a white woman by a black man, burned and looted the predominantly black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The damage covered 35 city blocks, destroying nearly 200 businesses, displacing about 10,000 residents. […]