Chris Rock’s new movie “Misty Green” centers on a fictional actress (Rosalind Eleazar) mounting a Hollywood comeback after years in the throes of a fading career. Misty’s journey pokes fun at some of the trappings of trying to “make it” in the entertainment industry, a pursuit that Rock himself is rejecting after his decades-spanning career
When Americans break a bone, get sick, or need help in an emergency—health care workers are there ready to help. But when they need care themselves, some health care workers are struggling to afford it, leading them to put off checkups, drop benefits, or even go without insurance. Medical practices face the affordability crisis from
When I tell people that my youngest daughter is attending the same college as her older twin siblings, I always hear some variation of these questions: Did they always want to go to the same college? Are you happy you only need to do one drop-off? Are you getting a buy 2 get 1 free
Investment banking giant JP Morgan has said it is struggling to predict how oil prices will be impacted by the US-Iran war, telling investors in a rare note that “we simply don’t know how to model the endgame”. The bank said it assumed at the start of the conflict that there would be “economic red
Since I was 11, I dreamed of attending a historically Black college or university. That dream started at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where I spent two weeks each summer in a program focused on leadership and academics. For a preteen growing up in Baltimore City, Morgan felt like another world. I had seen drug
Shatiya Hardin, meanwhile, said the situation has been “absolutely horrible”. “At night we’re sweating, we’re irritable, we have children to look out for, elderly people who need electricity for oxygen tanks,” she told the BBC’s US partner CBS. “It’s not OK for us to continually be in survival mode.” Amid mounting frustration, local residents have
