Joan Smalls on 'Pressure' of Representing Black and Latinx Communities in Fashion (Exclusive)

NEW YORK -- Author Joanna Cole, whose “Magic School Bus” books transported millions of young people on extraordinary and educational adventures, has died at age 75. Scholastic announced that Cole, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, died Sunday.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNew York City began work Thursday on a prominent, yellow-lettered “Black Lives Matter” mural on the street in front of Trump Tower.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long a critic of Donald Trump’s presidency and the drain of his Manhattan headquarters on city’s resources, has backed the mural as a necessary show of solidarity with the movement. Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice have swept across the U.S.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice, Toronto, Telluride and New York Film Festivals have joined forces in an alliance that will see the prominent fall events, all positioned six weeks from each other, collaborate rather than compete in a spirit of post-pandemic solidarity.The statement announcing this alliance provides scant details of what concrete form it will take, beyond saying that they “are offering our festivals as a united platform for the best cinema we can find.” But

NEW YORK -- Bachata singer Prince Royce says he got a wake-up call with a COVID-19 diagnosis and now he wants to try and wake others too. Royce revealed that he is recovering from the virus in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday.

Jane Fonda is a household name and has enjoyed a successful career in Hollywood for decades. But long before this, the 82-year-old was just another pupil at her high school, the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York.

Although the coronavirus has made it so the annual “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular” will look a little different in 2020, NBC announced it's enlisting some serious star power to help make it a worthwhile celebration all the same.

reports.Donnie Lee Barrigar, 36, filmed himself removing the flag on Saturday, June 20. He told the Waterdown Daily Times that it was a “peaceful protest” and expected his actions to be protected by the First Amendment.He told WWNY that the flag was “mocking God and it’s mocking all the good Christians we have in our community.”“I’m covered under the First Amendment right,” Barrigar said.

NEW YORK -- “The Big Bang Theory” actor Mayim Bialik is teaming with DC Entertainment on a project that joins superhero power to the power of science. DC Entertainment announced Thursday that Bialik will collaborate with popular comic writers and illustrators on a story collection that features Batman, Superman, the Flash and others in search of such mysteries such as why polar ice melts and what can be found at the bottom of the sea.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have signed with a high-profile speaking agency based in New York, per the Los Angeles Times. The couple will reportedly "focus on social issue such as racial injustice, gender equality, environmental concerns" and mental health, the newspaper writes.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefIn the last few years, Zendaya has soared in her career, making the jump from the Disney Channel to starring in HBO’s “Euphoria” and big-screen blockbusters such as “The Greatest Showman.” But one of her first post-Disney roles was as MJ in 2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and its 2019 sequel “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”In an interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors issue, “Pose” actor Mj Rodriguez asked Zendaya about putting her own spin on the Marvel

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterOn Sunday night, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver addressed one area in the country that is experiencing a deadly and alarming spike in coronavirus: prisons and jails.Oliver shared stats from the New York Times that there have been 68,000 infected inmates and prison deaths linked to COVID-19 is up to 73% while five of the largest clusters of the virus are in correctional facilities.This is especially alarming because 2.2 million individuals are being

NEW YORK -- John Bolton's memoir officially comes out Tuesday after surviving a security review and a legal challenge from the Justice Department. But over the weekend, it was available in ways even his publisher is hoping to prevent.

Miranda Lambert, 36, didn’t give her ex-husband Blake Shelton, 44, a shout-out for his birthday on June 18. But she did put her new husband, Brendan McLoughlin, on her Instagram page that very same day. The country music star shared a snapshot taken during their date at an ice cream truck the day prior, in which Brendan flexed his biceps while rocking a Baywatch tank top.

Voice alum Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton found solace and companionship in one another. “[He] had been going through literally the exact same thing in literally the exact same time frame,” Stefani told The New York Times in March 2016 of her new man.Here, Us Weekly compiles their sweetest moments together.

Jean Kennedy Smith, a sister to President Kennedy and skilled diplomat in her own right, who helped paved the way for the formal peace agreements in Northern Ireland as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland in the '90s, has died.

John F. Kennedy, died on Wednesday, June 17.

Ted Johnson John Bolton’s new tell-all memoir is full of explosive details of Donald Trump’s leadership, painting a picture of a presidency driven by impulse and ignorance of foreign policy.The New York Times and The Washington Post obtained copies of the book, set to be published on Tuesday, while The Wall Street Journal published an excerpt.According to the Post, Bolton’s book describes a summit last year with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which Trump asked him for help in winning the 2020