Author: Shekari Philemon

More than 30 years after their characters first set daytime television on fire, Shemar Moore and Vivica A. Fox are heading back to The Young and the Restless. The two actors, who helped build the show’s cultural footprint in the 1990s, are reprising their roles as Malcolm Winters and Dr. Stephanie Simmons in a multi-week return that has fans of the long-running soap opera counting down the days. Promotional clips released by the show earlier this week made clear that whatever brought audiences to their screens decades ago has not gone anywhere. Moore and Fox appear together with an ease…

The United Kingdom’s Home Office made a decision that sent ripples through the music world this week, officially barring Ye from entering the country on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the public good. The ruling effectively collapsed three nights of the annual Wireless Festival, where the Chicago rapper had been booked as the headlining act. Major sponsors including Pepsi and Diageo had already pulled their support over Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks, and without a headliner, the event had nowhere to go. Festival organizer Melvin Benn had initially defended the decision to book Ye, but…

A federal judge in Massachusetts stepped in on Wednesday to halt the Trump administration’s effort to end temporary protected status for thousands of Ethiopian immigrants living in the United States. The ruling found that the administration had bypassed the process laid out by Congress, making its attempt to terminate the designation unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, appointed during the Biden administration, issued the stay after determining that the government had acted outside its legal authority. At the heart of the decision was a foundational question about the limits of executive power and whether the president can override statutory obligations…

Most couples do not sit down and calmly discuss their finances. The topic tends to surface at the worst possible moments, after an unexpected purchase, during an already stressful week or when one partner has been quietly stewing over something they have not yet said out loud. By the time it becomes an actual conversation, the tension is already built in. That tension has roots deeper than any spreadsheet. Money tends to carry different emotional meaning for different people. For one person, financial security is the ultimate goal. For another, money represents freedom or the ability to enjoy life without…

The past week has been one of the most turbulent stretches in recent memory for rapper Offset. Days after being shot outside a hotel and casino in Hollywood, Florida, news broke that a Detroit casino had filed a lawsuit against him for an unpaid credit line of one hundred thousand dollars. The two events, separated by only a matter of days, have put the artist back in the public eye for reasons far removed from music. Offset, whose legal name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, was shot on the evening of April 6 near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.…

The woman accused of opening fire outside Rihanna’s Beverly Hills home returned to a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday for a brief hearing that ended without any change to her legal situation. Ivanna Ortiz, who pleaded not guilty last month to 14 charges including attempted murder, appeared before a new judge assigned to the case who denied a request from her public defender to lower her nearly two-million-dollar bail. The hearing was short but significant in its outcome. A date for a full preliminary hearing will be set at Ortiz’s next scheduled court appearance on May 13, moving the case…

A Georgia judge has granted NBA Hall of Famer Dwight Howard a protective order against his estranged wife, Amy Luciani, escalating what was already a deeply troubled divorce into something considerably more alarming. Under the terms of the order, Luciani must remain at least 100 feet away from Howard and his children at all times. She is also barred from contacting them by phone or social media, from approaching the family’s Georgia home and from coming near the private school the children attend. The order was signed earlier this week, weeks after Howard filed for divorce for the second time…

The popular image of bipolar disorder tends to be extreme. A person riding a wave of boundless energy, talking fast, barely sleeping, then crashing into a stretch of days they can barely get through. That version exists, but it represents only a slice of what the condition actually looks like across a population. Many people living with bipolar disorder never experience those dramatic swings at all. Experts, including those affiliated with the American Psychological Association, are increasingly framing bipolar not as a single fixed condition but as a spectrum, a shift that is reshaping how clinicians recognize, diagnose and treat…

For years, a troubling pattern has persisted in oncology. Black women are diagnosed with breast cancer at slightly lower rates than white women, yet they die from it at a rate 40% higher. Researchers, doctors and advocates have long pointed to systemic inequities as the cause, and while those factors are real, a significant new study suggests the picture is far more complex and the answer may lie inside the tumor itself. A study published in Nature Partners Journal Breast Cancer, led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, examined more than 1,000 women, split nearly evenly between Black and…

Before the controversies, there was the music. The artist now known as Ye, born Kanye West, entered the industry not as a rapper but as a producer, crafting beats for some of the biggest names in hip-hop during the early 2000s. He then launched a solo career that would go on to redefine the genre, with a string of albums and singles that pushed the boundaries of what rap could sound like. For roughly a decade, he was considered one of the most creatively daring figures in popular music. That legacy has not disappeared, but it has been buried under…