CBS Paid the Actress Eliza Dushku $9.5 Million to Settle Harassment Claims
Eliza Dushku is an actress best known for her recurring role on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and was repeatedly harassed by her co-star, Michael Weatherly, on the CBS series “Bull.” She believes she faced retaliation after she complained, and was written off the show. Investigators who looked into the case said Dushku’s story was emblematic of larger problems at CBS.
On the Front Porch, Black Life in Full View
From literature to identity, upward mobility to forging community, this one architectural element continues to play an important role across generations in Detroit.
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality.
Ivy League schools love stories of underprivileged students overcoming all the odds to make it to the top, so that’s what T.M. Landry fed them — at the expense of the students themselves.
‘If Bobbie Talks, I’m Finished’: How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser
Text messages between Les Moonves and a struggling Hollywood manager named Marv Dauer reveal how the two men traded favors to cover up a sexual assault allegation. Moonves directed Dauer to delete the messages to cover his tracks. Dauer insists he was doing whatever he could to get parts for his clients.
In Brazil, Animals Cross a Road of No Return
Highway BR-262 cuts through Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland. After studying the road for two decades, biologist Wagner Fischer can say with certainty that it’s one of the world’s deadliest roads for wildlife. “Ecologists are very worried,” Fischer said. “The authorities pretend to be worried.”
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
A New York Times investigation into the questionable ways Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, and Sheryl Sandberg, its Chief Operating Officer, have worked to contain and distract from the company’s biggest scandals, including reports of Russian Facebook accounts influencing the 2016 presidential election, inappropriate data mining and sharing, and the platform having no actionable policy against hate speech.
Tales From the Warhol Factory
An oral history of Andy’s legendary, troubled group work and gallery space, which one painter called “a medieval court of lunatics.”
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination
“The New York Times reviewed thousands of pages of court and other public records involving workers who said they had suffered miscarriages, gone into premature labor or, in one case, had a stillborn baby after their employers rejected their pleas for assistance.”
Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Other People’s Screens
In an age when more than 80 percent of the American population carry portable screens, we can’t help but look over.
Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too.
Michael Adno examines the paintings of American playwright Tennessee Williams, who used the visual medium to explore what it meant to be gay in America during the ’70s.