Author: Gesi Lloyd

The first teaser for Clayface is here, and it does not look like any DC film that has come before it. Released yesterday, the footage leans into dread, showing Matt Hagen confined to a hospital bed, already hollowed out before his transformation has fully begun. DC Studios is not easing audiences into this one. Directed by James Watkins and set for release on October 23, 2026, the film lands exactly where the calendar suggests it should. A Halloween weekend DC horror film anchored by body horror and psychological collapse is either a brilliant read of the cultural moment or a…

There is a version of Kehlani that almost did not make it here. She has said as much herself. On April 22, in an interview timed to the release of her self-titled album, the R&B artist spoke at length about her diagnoses of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, what getting those answers felt like, and how she has spent the past year rebuilding around them. The timing was not incidental. Kehlani first disclosed both diagnoses publicly in April 2025, around her 30th birthday. What followed was not a crisis but a reckoning, one that she has since channeled directly…

In many cultures, a name is the first gift a family gives. For Black families in America, that naming carries extra weight. It connects the living to the dead, the present to a past that was violently interrupted. And for generations, the formal practice of passing names down, through the Jr. and Sr. tradition, belonged almost exclusively to men. Some Black women are changing that, quietly and deliberately, by finding their own ways to carry names forward. A grandfather’s rule that stuck Frances “Toni” Draper, publisher and CEO of the AFRO, grew up with a name shaped by a family…

A Portland woman has filed a $10,000 lawsuit against Trader Joe’s in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleging she found the fingertip of a rubber glove inside a bottle of the chain’s organic orange juice and may have inadvertently swallowed part of a human finger along with it. The complaint, filed Monday and first reported by OregonLive and KGW-TV, identifies the plaintiff as Julee O’Neil. She says she purchased a 52-ounce bottle of Trader Joe’s Organic Orange Juice from the chain’s location on Northeast Halsey Street in Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood sometime in June 2025. What she found, and what she feared…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Today reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana under federal law, marking one of the most consequential shifts in American drug policy in decades. The change moves medical cannabis from Schedule I, the most restrictive federal drug category, to Schedule III, the same tier as ketamine and Tylenol with codeine. The order does not legalize marijuana at the federal level. Recreational use remains prohibited under federal law, and the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis outside of state-licensed medical programs would still be subject to federal enforcement. What changes is how the government treats the…

Oklahoma City needed just one look at Jalen Williams reaching for his left hamstring to understand what was happening. He motioned toward the bench. They knew. The Thunder beat the Phoenix Suns 120-107 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 series lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff matchup, but the final score was almost beside the point. With 6:26 remaining in the third quarter, Williams drove toward the basket, pulled up short and grabbed the back of his left leg. He took an intentional foul a few possessions later to exit cleanly, walked to the locker room and did…

The Madrid Open’s Round of 64 is officially underway, and Today’s schedule carries enough intrigue to keep even casual tennis fans glued to the action. Players who received first-round byes are stepping onto the clay at Caja Magica for the first time this week, facing opponents who already have a match and some momentum behind them. That dynamic shapes several of the predictions below. Naomi Osaka opens cold in Madrid Naomi Osaka begins her Madrid campaign against Colombian clay specialist Camila Osorio, and the matchup is closer than the rankings suggest. Osaka, seeded 14th at the tournament, carries a 2-1…

Atlanta Falcons edge rusher James Pearce Jr. will not face trial on three felony counts and one misdemeanor charge, after Miami-Dade prosecutors agreed Thursday to place him in a pretrial diversion program. The agreement, if Pearce completes all requirements over the next six months, will result in a full dismissal of every charge against him. The charges stemmed from a February 7 incident in Doral, Florida, in which Pearce allegedly drove his Lamborghini into a car belonging to WNBA player Rickea Jackson, his former girlfriend, as she fled toward a local police station for protection. Officers who attempted to stop…

A project called Tico is changing how retro games run on the Nintendo Switch. It is a custom, multi-platform emulation frontend built in native C++ that allows classic games to launch directly within the Switch’s native Horizon operating system, something that was not possible before. Previously,Nintendo Switch owners who wanted to play GameCube or Wii titles had to install a separate operating system, such as Android, and run the Dolphin emulator through that layer. The extra overhead hurt performance and made the process cumbersome. Tico removes that step entirely. The latest release, version 0.7.0 alpha, introduces experimental GameCube and Wii…

A wildfire in Brantley County that began near U.S. Highway 82 close to the Glynn County line has grown to roughly 4,000 acres, with some estimates pushing closer to 5,000, according to the Georgia Forestry Commission. What started Monday as a fire of 600 to 700 acres with containment around 75% had, by early Wednesday, fallen to roughly 10% contained. The reversal happened fast. Conditions deteriorated sharply on Tuesday as the fire jumped U.S. Highway 82 and pushed into residential neighborhoods. Dozens of homes and several businesses have been destroyed. Evacuations and emergency shelters Evacuation orders have been issued for…