AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar11 hours agoThe Bachelor has a notorious influencer pipeline — but only for white contestantsverified_publisherVox - Fabiola CineasInstagram follower counts indicate Bachelor Nation doesn’t care as much about leads and contestants of color. The latest season of The Bachelor concluded with an emotional proposal and an exciting announcement: For the first time in the franchise’s more than 20-year history, there will be an Asian …
AvatarVox11 hours agoBeyoncé’s Cowboy Carter asks: Who does country belong to?verified_publisherVox - Alex Abad-SantosHer new album seems to have roots in her reception at the 2016 CMA Awards, but the country music establishment can’t stop Beyoncé. In the lead-up to Friday’s release of Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé gave us a small tidbit about its inspiration. She wrote on Instagram that the album was “over five years in …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar5 days agoHow come there’s never been an Asian Bachelorette?verified_publisherVox - Li ZhouJenn Tran, a physician assistant student from Miami, has been named the new Bachelorette. Editor’s note, March 27, 5 pm ET: Jenn Tran has been named the first Asian American Bachelorette in the franchise’s 22-year history. For the first time in years, The Bachelor franchise had not one, not two, but …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarThe sexual assault and trafficking allegations against Diddy, explainedverified_publisherVox - Anna NorthThe accusations are part of a larger reckoning in music — one that some say is long overdue. Especially in the 1990s and 2000s, Diddy was a figure of enormous power, not just in hip-hop but in the business and entertainment worlds writ large. In recent months, however, multiple people have sued him, …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar2 days agoConnections, the most fun (and sometimes frustrating) game on the internetverified_publisherVox - Rebecca JenningsWhy a really great word game makes you feel smart, and also stupid. What do the words “loo,” “condo,” “haw,” “hero” have in common? Unless you’re extremely into ornithology, it’s impressive if you were able to pick out the fact that if you added another letter to each of them, you’d spell the name …
AvatarVox2 days agoBeyoncé’s country rootsverified_publisherVox - Avishay ArtsyA century of history of Black country music, explained by Alice Randall. If you somehow haven’t heard: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, her eighth studio album and the much-anticipated sequel to Renaissance, drops on Friday. Its lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em” made history when it debuted at the top of the …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarThe disappearance of Kate Middleton, explainedverified_publisherVox - Constance GradyThe Princess of Wales issued a statement on March 22 saying she is being treated for cancer. The mystery of Princess Catherine’s disappearance has been solved. On Friday afternoon, the Princess of Wales, formerly Kate Middleton, announced in a recorded statement that she had been diagnosed with an …
AvatarVox6 days ago3 Body Problem, explained with the help of an astrophysicistverified_publisherVox - Aja RomanoNetflix’s new adaptation of Liu Cixin’s famous sci-fi series shows us what quantum mechanics might look like in real time. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem premiered March 21, and there’s a lot of science! The new Netflix series from screenwriter Alexander Woo and Game of Thrones shepherds David Benioff and …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar6 days agoWhy March Madness is all about Caitlin Clarkverified_publisherVox - Alex Abad-SantosThe most exciting player in college basketball, explained. For the uninitiated, college basketball may seem like a complicated sport. Nearly every second is packed with plays, screens, cuts, and defenses that can be hard to follow. Commentators spray you with names and phrases that you’re supposed …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatar6 days agoBaseball superstar Shohei Ohtani has been caught up in a gambling controversy. He won’t be the last.verified_publisherVox - Bryan WalshFrom baseball to March Madness, how gambling is ruining sports. The 1919 World Series is famous for a few things, but most of all, it’s remembered as the worst gambling scandal in US sports history. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking money from gamblers to purposefully lose …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarBeyoncé, the CMAs, and the fight over country music’s politics, explainedverified_publisherVox - Alex Abad-SantosThe backlash over Beyoncé and the Chicks’ CMAs performance is really a fight over country music’s politics. Editor’s note, March 19, 2024, 1:20 pm: On March 19, 2024, Beyoncé posted on Instagram that her upcoming album, Act II: Cowboy Carter — the first two singles from which are propelling her to the …
AvatarVoxAvatarAvatarJapan’s cherry blossoms are a marker of natural time — and how climate change is altering itverified_publisherVox - Bryan WalshThe age-old Japanese tradition of hanami has become a harbinger of change. For outsiders who can’t resist the urge to make sweeping generalizations that will later prove highly embarrassing, Japan provides particularly dangerous ground. As someone who spent parts of 2006 and 2007 as a foreign …