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Bad Takes: 50-year old movie classic Blazing Saddles skewers contemporary targets
San Antonio Current· 1 day agoOriginally titled Tex X, an homage to human rights leader Malcolm X, the film Blazing Saddles told...
On This Day, June 1: Greek monarchy abolished
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn 1997, Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow, sustained injuries when her 12-year-old grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, set fire to her apartment. She died nearly...
On This Day in History - June 1st - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 6 days agoOn June 1, 1973, Prime Minister George Papadopoulos abolished the Greek monarchy and proclaimed...
Was the FBI linked to Boulder's deadly car bombings? Questions remain 50 years later
Denver7· 6 days agoWhen two car bomb explosions killed six activists in Boulder, and injured a seventh, in the early summer of 1974, local and federal law enforcement investigated. Fifty years later, those closest ...
Perspective | Used paperbacks change lives behind bars, even with growing prison book bans
Washington Post· 4 days agoFive years later, I went back to Open Books with my mother and sister while living in Florida during...
Welcome to the age of space scepticism – and a growing revolt against elites - EconoTimes
EconoTimes· 1 day agoOver the past decade, a new form of scepticism about human activities in space has emerged. This is...
The Source |Today in Hip Hop History: Boogie Down Productions Released Their Second LP 'By All Means...
The Source· 7 days agoOn this day in 1988, Boogie Down Productions dropped one of the best and most influential albums of...
Everything Coming to Tubi in June 2024
Comic Book· 4 days agoTubi, a division of FOX Entertainment and a free ad-supported streaming service with 40,000+ movies and TV shows from nearly every major studio, has...
UCSB UAW Local 4811 workers join rolling strikes against UC | The Daily Nexus
Daily Nexus· 2 days agoOver 100 UC Santa Barbara students, faculty and community members joined the UC-wide academic workers’ strike on June 3 in a campus rally, denouncing the conduct of UC administration in response ...
The Rundown: Chicago’s unspent COVID relief money
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 3 days agoThe city has been slow to spend the nearly $1.9 billion in pandemic relief funds it first received under former Mayor Lori Lightfoot and now faces an...