“Is there room for a self-proclaimed ‘backpack rapper’ in Roc-A-Fella’s Bentley hit parade? Meet Kanye West,” says MTV News VJ Gideon Yago while introducing a 2002 You Hear It First episode on the then-rising rapper. The journey to getting that episode on air is briefly covered in the first installm

The entire world knows who Queen Elizabeth is—but very few people know her intimately. What is Her Majesty really like? Royal biographer Robert Hardman seeks to answer that question in his new book Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II, out April 5.

“Those who know her well talk about

The Cambridges have concluded their stay in Belize, the first stop on their Caribbean tour.

On their last night there, they attended a special reception in Cahal Pech hosted by the Governor General of Belize in honor of the Queen, and Kate Middleton more than rose to the occasion.

The duchess wore

Spring is upon us, and Netflix’s ever-growing content cycle is in full bloom. April 2022 will see several beloved series return, including the final runs of Ozark and Grace and Frankie. The month kicks off with new projects from Richard Linklater—an animated film about adolescence called Apollo 1o ½

What would you give to…forget? To take all the muck and sludge and soup that your brain is seeped in and just wash it away? I’m talking about all the useless stuff—the narrative arcs of ’90s sitcoms, the jingle for Subway’s $5 footlong, entire episodes of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous syndicated

The 2022 Oscars are upon us. After last year’s scaled-down ceremony due to COVID-19, the 94th Annual Academy Awards return with an in-person ceremony, bringing back the red carpet glitz that was missed the year prior.

On Hollywood’s biggest night, the best-picture category is the show’s top overall

Conservative lawmakers with presidential ambitions apparently see Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings as a trial run for the 2024 Republican primary. Several Republicans reportedly considering a run for the White House next cycle sit on the Senate’s judicial committee:

On Tuesday, Prince William and Kate Middleton arrived in Jamaica to continue their eight-day tour of the Caribbean, after spending three nights in Belize, where they visited a cocoa farm, danced, and even got a chance to go scuba diving. Though they took some time to honor Bob Marley and meet with s

The San Francisco peninsula is now home to a slew of private security companies filled with ex-military, former international counterterrorism experts, and government officials who were in charge of cyber-warfare with other nation states. The job of these security outfits is to protect the well-bein

When Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to be nominated for the Supreme Court, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1967, he sat across from hostile Southern senators who sought, in the event of his confirmation, to lay at his feet the problem of rising crime gripping American cities. “I do n

As Republicans at the state level continue to pass laws that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in girls’ and women’s sports in schools, two GOP governors are refusing the trend by weighing the actual impact instead of simply rubber-stamping the right’s latest culture-war legis