From his office window, attorney Buck Colbert “B.C.” Franklin could see planescircling low overhead Greenwood, the thriving African American district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the early morning hours of June 1st, 1921, and they were growing in number. Moments later, he heard “something falling like hail upon the top of …
Read More »Extinction Rebellion: The New Eco-Radicals
One Monday morning last April, an Englishman named Simon Bramwell glued himself to a glass door at Shell’s London headquarters and refused to leave. Bramwell, 47, is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a two-year-old climate-activist group dedicated to the belief that real change will only come through mass civil disobedience. …
Read More »The Last Manson Mystery
Listen to an audio version of this story below: On the dusty, heat-blister town of Vacaville, California, halfway between Sacramento and Oakland, sits the bleak squat prison that holds a trim, handsome, highly articulate inmate named Bobby Beausoleil, almost 72, who has spent the past 50 years behind bars for …
Read More »What It's Like When a Relationship With a Psychiatrist Goes Terribly Wrong
The premise of talk therapy centers on giving a person the space to discuss and process their innermost feelings, fears and desires with a mental health expert in a professional setting. Though great in theory, in some situations, the uniquely intimate relationship between a therapist and their client can go …
Read More »Anna Delvey Trial: Emails Reveal Fake German Heiress' Desperate Attempts to Get $22 Million Loan
The trial of Anna Delvey a.k.a. Anna Sorokin, the 28-year-old fake German heiress and so-called “Soho grifter” who is accused of stealing up to $250,000 from banks and hotels in New York City, is in its first few days, and it’s already garnered as much attention as Delvey herself. On …
Read More »Can the Bad Internet Apologies Stop Soon, Please?
On Wednesday,The Hollywood Reporterpublished astoryfrom guest editor Lena Dunham for their 2018 Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue. In this letter, Dunham apologizes to actress Aurora Perrineau, whom she accused oflyingwhen Perrineau accusedGirlswriter Murray Miller of rape. (Miller denied the allegation.) “I wanted to feel my workplace and my world …
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