A first-time visitor discovers how completely Prince’s legacy still shapes, Minneapolis, the city that raised him.
Tou Thao, one of the four fired Minneapolis police officers convicted in George Floyd’s killing during an arrest nearly 5½ years ago, was released from prison Monday. Thao, 39, was convicted in state ...
When I arrived in Minneapolis, the frost had just lifted, and gray clouds hung low over the horizon. I had come to make a pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the revolution of 2020 began. It has ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared war on street art, mandating the removal of rainbow crosswalks celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride across the state. But the governor’s crackdown on what he calls "political ...
Oct. 14 will mark the birthday of two very different American martyrs. On that day in 1973, George Floyd was born. As everyone knows only too well, he died in 2020 after being placed under arrest by a ...
In the world of opinion journalism, you’ve got to be wary of arguments meant solely to churn out clicks, reactions, and responses by throwing a rhetorical cat into a crowd of rhetorical pigeons. Most ...
Richard Zoglin, a New York-based writer and critic, is the author of “Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America.” Anyone who doubts that comedy is serious business these days ...
Dave Chappelle’s recent claim that it’s “easier to talk here than it is in America” — here being Saudi Arabia, where the comedian was performing as part of the Riyadh Comedy Festival — is “not true,” ...
As comedians from Bill Burr to Kevin Hart were slammed for performing at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, Dave Chappelle said the Middle Eastern nation is actually more suitable for stand-up ...
Dave Chappelle compared U.S. and Saudi speech laws during a Riyadh set, prompting criticism over his participation in the controversial comedy festival. Chappelle Says It’s Easier to Speak in Saudi ...
Performing before a crowd of more than 6,000, Chappelle didn't shy away from hot-button topics. "Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you'll get canceled," he told ...
Comedian Dave Chappelle took a swing at the United States during a set at the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. Chappelle performed for an audience of 6,000 this week as a headline ...