From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment One year ago, when tickets first went on sale for “The Odyssey” in Imax 70mm, nearly every screening sold out instantly.The unprecedented ticket mayhem built hype — not just for the film, but for the format. By the time a second round of tickets were made available last month, buyers swarmed with such frenzy that they crashed the AMC Theatres app.In Los Angeles, home base for cinephiles of every stripe, scoring one of these coveted opening weekend tickets was particularly challenging. Much of the excitement revolved around the fact that “The Odyssey”…
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Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Southern University standout KJ White has signed a free-agent contract with the Athletics organization, capping a historic senior season that cemented his status as one of the SWAC’s top players. White, an infielder and lead-off hitter, was the driving force behind Southern’s success in 2026. He earned SWAC Hitter of the Year honors and First-Team All-SWAC recognition. He was named a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Award, presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate baseball player. He closed his collegiate career with a .421 batting average, tallying 81 hits, eight…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care One year after the Trump administration announced that dozens of health insurers had signed a six-part pledge promising to reduce barriers to doctor-recommended care, some insurers now say they won’t implement all the promised initiatives. Meanwhile, patients, their advocates, and clinicians say little has improved. “It has never been this bad for patients,” said U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.), a physician who co-chairs the GOP Doctors Caucus. The overarching intent of the June 2025 pledge was to improve a controversial process called prior authorization, which regularly requires patients or someone on…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Despite what some marketers will claim, there is no test for perimenopause. That doesn’t mean women should have to put up with symptoms, but treatment suggestions often lack scientific evidence. And not all the symptoms women experience in midlife can be blamed on hormones. Read the full story on the hype and misinformation surrounding perimenopause. —Jessica Hamzelou This article is from The Spark, our weekly climate tech newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Last Updated on July 14, 2026 Classic season hits different. HBCU classics aren’t just games — they’re the events that turn a Saturday into a reunion, a rivalry into a citywide takeover, and a stadium into the loudest room in Black America for one weekend. Orange Blossom. Bayou Classic. Magic City. Celebration Bowl. If you know, you know — and if you’re new to this, welcome. You’re about to understand why people build entire vacations around these dates. So we built this HBCU football classics schedule 2026 to keep it all in…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia In June of 2020, HBO pulled the 1939 classic film “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming service. The decision came after John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter behind “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed for the LA Times calling out the film’s racism and sanitization of the institution of slavery. Later that month, HBO re-released the film on streaming, now with an accompanying video from African American cinema scholar Jacqueline Stewart breaking down the context surrounding the release of the film. The new version also included a written disclaimer prior to…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection If you’re an avid history buff, you were probably immediately drawn to the theater when Angel Studios’ “Young Washington” first hit the box office on June 13. The film, which centers on the founding father’s early life and tribulations before becoming the first president, offers a unique look into a world nearly 300 years in the past. To capture the scenes of George Washington’s early life and travels, “Young Washington” units were stationed in both Ireland and Virginia. Though it may sound a bit silly to place production units outside of the country…
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Scientific research & Exploration: Check Out the Globe Via Research Study and Advancement Astronomers have located a set of the lightest gigantic worlds known in the universe in a star system about 1, 100 light-years away, according to a brand-new research study. The discovery of these two gas titans , which are less thick than cotton candy, will certainly assist astrophysicists better understand one of the most extreme and uncommon means planets can create. “We want to comprehend the complete tale of earth formation and development,” stated George Dransfield, an astrophysicist at Oxford University that led the research study “The…
Business Insights: Global Markets, Strategy & Economic Trends ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast, I’m Alison Beard. There was a time when running a legacy institution was a sure path to success, but incumbency can now be a liability too if leaders aren’t able to adapt to quickly shifting industry dynamics. It’s a balancing act. How do you change strategy without losing the parts of your culture and business worth keeping? AT&T’s CEO John Stankey has spent more than four decades inside the technology bellwether, but when he took charge, he didn’t try to preserve the status quo. He…