Alabama Principal Masterfully Turns ‘U Can’t Touch This’ Into Everyone’s Favorite New Coronavirus Awareness Bop
n Alabama high school principal created a funny video with a serious message and it has gone viral for both reasons. Dr. Quentin Lee, principal at Childersburg High School, transformed MC Hammer’s 1990 classic “U Can’t Touch This” into a coronavirus awareness campaign in the hopes of encouraging students to stay safe and healthy as the school […]
Issa Rae, Cory Booker, and More of the Biggest Moments of TIME’s Impact Dinner: The Closers
Earlier this month, with the launch of its new list, The Closers, TIME highlighted the work of 18 influential figures working to close the Black-white racial wealth gap. On Thursday night, several of those leaders were among those who gathered in Midtown Manhattan to celebrate that work—and, at a time when the median wealth of white […]
Greta Gerwig’s Next Big Swing
“Movies!” Gerwig says, almost in the manner of an old-timey studio executive, recalling the moment. “Love ’em!” We’re having lunch in Soho; she’s in London while her husband, the writer-director Noah Baumbach, preps production on his next film, and while she works on a new adaptation of the first book in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series. It’s one […]
Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s Divorce Is Finalized, Officially Ending Their Marriage
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A judge has declared that Kevin Costner and his wife of nearly two decades, Christine Baumgartner, are now legally divorced, according to court records filed Tuesday. The couple’s marriage ended, and both became single, on Friday, nine months after she filed for divorce, a judgment entered in Santa Barbara County court […]
More than 120,000 American Kids Lost a Parent or Other Caregiver During the COVID-19 Pandemic
“These findings really highlight those children who have been left most vulnerable by the pandemic, and where additional resources should be directed,” one of the study’s authors, Dr. Alexandra Blenkinsop of Imperial College London, said in a statement. During 15 months of the nearly 19-month COVID-19 pandemic, more than 120,000 U.S. children lost a parent […]
How the World Is Reacting to Shinzo Abe’s Death
A teary-eyed Fumio Kishida, Japan’s current prime minister, condemned the assassination when he appeared before Japanese reporters following news of Abe’s death. Kishida described Abe as a “personal friend” with whom he spent a lot of time. Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, a good friend of Abe’s, announced that July 9 will be a national day of […]
Sanctions Won’t Hurt Myanmar’s Brutal Leaders, Activists Say.
The U.S. imposed new sanctions on senior leaders of Myanmar’s military junta on Monday—the eve of the one-year anniversary of their overthrow of the country’s democratically elected government and imprisonment of its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The U.S., joined by the U.K., and Canada, announced sanctions on officials who helped prosecute Aung San Suu Kyi, the […]
