Like most of the women in my family, I carry the BRCA2 gene mutation, which means that if I did nothing, my risk of developing breast cancer at some point in my life would be around 85 percent. I’d seen firsthand what that looks like; my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and two aunts have all battled…
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Possibly–maybe–but-most-likely-definitely couple Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse are at it again with the Instagram PDA, this time with Reinhart posting a shirtless photo of Sprouse with the caption, “I hope you don’t mind.” The public record has shown that this is usually the part when one of their Riverdale co-stars swoops in to brilliantly troll…
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It’s on. Democrat Stacey Abrams has an opponent in her quest to become Georgia’s next governor. The Yale-trained attorney will take on Republican Brian Kemp in the race, drawing the eyes of the nation to a pivotal November contest between a progressive black woman and a pro-Trump conservative man. Abrams is campaigning to become the…
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In a stunning political victory on Tuesday night, 28-year-old first-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated 10-term Democrat Joe Crowley in their party’s congressional primary in New York. Ocasio-Cortez seized 57.5 percent of the votes in New York’s 14th District, which includes the Bronx and Queens. The upset came as a shock to those who hadn’t predicted…
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