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Demand for mental health care has grown. Self-reported poor mental health days rose by 25% since the 1990s, found one study analyzing survey data. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide rates in 2022 matched a 2018 high that hadn’t been seen in nearly 80 years.

Of the many Black figures targeted by the MAGA right, few have attracted its fury like Ibram X. Kendi.

A lot of you were continuing to report bugs and glitches yesterday (thank you!), but there were some questions in the comments that I think require a longer response, so my diary today is about why. Why Did We Have To Do This If DK5 Was Working Fine? (…if it ain’t broke…) I addressed the […]

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the government agency widely known as ICE, reported the death of a detainee for the 17th time so far in 2026. On April 12, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old Cuban man, died in what has been labeled a suicide. But the death at a Miami detention facility is still under investigation. Earlier in April, a 52-year-old Mexican man died in California’s…

I have featured the musical genre dubbed “funk” here and here in the past. However those stories didn’t spotlight the musician nicknamed “WOO”—Bernie Worrell.

From the Moral Majority to Trump portraying himself as Jesus, the right thinks religion belongs to them.