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April 17, 2026
While ICE recently reported the 16th immigrant detainee death of the year, the number of people in ICE detention centers has dropped by 11% since February.
There was a time when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released three-page reports on what happened following the death of immigrant detainees in custody.
But as the number of deaths has gone up, NBC News reports, the details have decreased to a few paragraphs.
The agency once required ICE to give notice to the public and Congress within two days of a detainee’s death. The next step was submitting reports within 90 days to be posted on the ICE website with details surrounding the death: timelines, timestamps of medical observations, regular medications, administered emergency medications, and times and causes of death.
Since mid-December 2025, released reports have only included a brief synopsis of the circumstances surrounding these deaths as lawmakers grow increasingly almarmed over the increase in detainee deaths under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody.  The ICE website that posts investigations has not been updated since mid-February, with DHS blaming the delay on the ongoing department shutdown
“Under these conditions, certain administrative and public-facing updates are not fully operational. In a shutdown driven by Democrats’ failure to fund the government, non-essential reporting functions can be slowed even as ICE continues its core mission,” DHS said in a statement.
ICE recently reported the 16th immigrant detainee death of the year. In addition, the number of people in ICE detention centers has dropped by 11% since February, and arrests are down by 21%. But there are still more than 60,000 people in custody, close to double the number prior to President Donald Trump’s second term in office. 
Under the Trump administration, DHS has committed to detaining and deporting as many immigrants as possible. However, lawmakers have focused on deaths in facilities like Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, which has more immigrants than any other facility.
As U.S. leaders like Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas have called for Montana’s closure due to its conditions, world leaders like Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum have criticized immigrant deaths while in U.S. custody, including those with Mexican backgrounds.
According to PBS, Sheinbaum claimed, “There are many Mexicans whose only crime is not having papers.”
She’s not alone. A poll from AP-NORC found six in 10 U.S. adults feel the Trump administration has “gone too far” in sending federal immigration agents into American cities, as the disapproval of immigration enforcement increases.
“Growing dissatisfaction around ICE activities in the United States creates a more comfortable platform for members of the Mexican government to raise concerns about the fate of Mexican citizens,” vice president of content strategy for the Council of the Americas, Carin Zissis, said.
DHS defended the reported increase in death rates, calling them a small percentage of the overall detainee population.
“All detainees are provided with proper meals, water, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the agency said. “In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”
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Goldsmiths is well known for its School of Art and artist alumni.
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Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, one of the UK’s most celebrated art schools, plan to take industrial action following a restructure plan announced by college management. The plan, some academic staff say, amounts to “academic vandalism”.
The University and College Union (UCU), which represents academic and professional staff, says in a statement that the acting vice-chancellor David Oswell told all staff in an email on 26 March that the college intended to make savings of £22m by the end of the 2026-27 academic year, most of which will likely be actioned by the end of March 2027.
Goldsmiths has carried out extensive restructuring over the past five years, launching the Recovery programme in 2021 and the Transformation programme in 2024. The Goldsmiths UCU says that the Recovery programme led to £7.6m in recurrent savings while the Transformation programme generated a further £16.1m worth of savings.
“Future Goldsmiths [the latest proposed two-year restructure programme] will involve sacking professional services staff in the current academic year, with job cuts for academic staff to follow in September,” the union claims, adding that a recent freedom of information request revealed that Goldsmiths has spent more than £14m on private consultants—including management consultants, law firms and recruitment agencies—since 2019.
The alleged costs include £2.7m for management consulting firm KPMG; £283,390 paid in 2022-23 to the law firm Shoosmiths to provide legal support on redundancies and internal disciplinary matters; and £191,468 paid in 2024-25 to management consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers for a report on the restructuring of professional services under the Recovery overhaul. Goldsmiths did not comment on these figures.
Staff in the Goldsmiths UCU have subsequently balloted for industrial action. On a 63% turnout, 81% of members have voted for strike action, with 92% voting in favour of Action Short Of a Strike (ASOS), which would include a marking and assessment boycott.
A Goldsmiths spokesperson says: “We’re taking action to secure our place as one of the world’s leading creative universities, at a time when many in higher education are facing uncertain futures and are having to make difficult decisions.
“In an increasingly disrupted world we simply cannot afford to stand still, and our plan will ensure that we are able to continue delivering unique critical education and research while supporting our students to achieve their ambitions.”
On announcing Future Goldsmiths, Oswell said that without purposeful redesign, the institution will continue to face structural financial deficits and an operating model that is not “aligned with future learners, regulatory expectations, or the pressing realities of our sector”. The aim is to transform the “academic model, operations, digital and estates and financial management by 2028” so that it can “deliver a portfolio aligned to its critical core” and offer flexible learning access.
Goldsmiths has produced a number of famous art alumni such as Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Sarah Lucas. Nine Goldsmiths graduates have won the Turner prize including Gillian Wearing in 1997 and Laure Prouvost in 2013.
Restructure of London University college could result in loss of 133 roles across arts departments
The college—an alma mater of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst—faces a restructure and more than 130 possible redundancies
Lecturers have stopped assessing students after management consultants propose mass overhaul

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Rick Ross is shedding more light on where things stand between him and Drake following their fallout.
Rick Ross is shedding more light on where things stand between him and Drake following their fallout.
During the debut episode of Culli’s YouTube show, the Maybach Music boss was asked whether he’d be open to squashing beef with the Toronto rapper. Rozay didn’t hold back.
“Homie got a lot of issues he got to address. I’ma leave it right there. Is it any potential of him being a real n*gga? He gotta decide that. But he got sh*t he gotta deal with and address. Hopefully it was a lot of n*ggas that was watching and learned from it. It was unfortunate.”
Ross appeared to be referencing the highly publicized “20 v. 1” situation involving Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and others, which ultimately saw Drake take a major hit after Kendrick dropped “Not Like Us.”
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Despite the tension, Rick Ross made it clear he still values the music he and Drake created together over the years.
“You can never change your past. The music I created in the past, I could never change. I enjoyed it and I’ma still enjoying it. Can’t no lame n*ga or nobody having differences make me not enjoy something that I was a part of.”
However, Ross did note that the fallout has had an impact on how fans react to those records during his live shows.
“The sad part about it is, when I play those records, everybody just stands and they don’t sing his part any more. I be like ‘No y’all can sing it. Sing the little man part’.”
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April 17, 2026
Jeffery, through a representative, maintained his innocence.
Super Bowl-winning Pro Bowl wideout Alshon Jeffery was recently arrested in California and charged with insurance fraud.
According to TMZ Sports, Jeffery was taken into police custody on April 15 and charged with insurance fraud for concealing or failing to disclose an insurance benefit or payment. He is no longer in custody after being booked around 8 a.m. that day. No other details were immediately available.
“Alshon Jeffery categorically denies the allegations that have been reported. The underlying incident was a minor freeway fender bender, and he provided his information at the scene,” his representative, Denise White, the CEO of EAG Sports Management, said in a statement to PennLive. “These are unfounded allegations only, and Alshon has not been convicted of any offense. He will address this matter through the legal process, and he remains confident that the facts will demonstrate this was a misunderstanding and nothing more.”
Jeffery, 36, won an NFL championship in 2017, his first year playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. In Super Bowl LII, he caught three passes for 73 yards and scored a touchdown, helping the Eagles upset the New England Patriots ,41-33.
The wide receiver joined the team following five seasons with the Chicago Bears, who selected him in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft. Jeffery, a South Carolina native, was an All-American receiver at the University of South Carolina.
After spending four seasons with the Eagles, Jeffery retired after the 2020 season. During his NFL career, he caught 475 passes for 6,786 yards and scored 46 touchdowns.
In 2013, Jeffery caught 89 passes for 1,421 yards and scored seven touchdowns; those stats helped him make the Pro Bowl. The next season, he surpassed 1,000 yards again, catching 85 passes for 1,133 yards and scoring 10 touchdowns.
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Rapper Monaleo’s medical scare is a reminder that the fight for Black maternal health must include young mothers.
By now, most of us have heard some version of the statistic: Black women are three and a half times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. For the last 10 years, we have talked about it during Black Maternal Health Week. We share the posts, we mourn the losses, and yet there’s a group of Black mothers who barely make it into that conversation at all: young mothers. The teen moms, early twenty-something moms who find themselves fighting medical racism, prejudice, and the extra stigmas linked to being a young mother.
Most recently, 24-year-old rapper and mother Monaleo highlighted this reality when she opened up about how overlooked abdominal pain led to a life-threatening medical emergency. In a recent freestyle and TikTok live, the Houston rapper explained how doctors tried to send her home despite experiencing extreme pain. It ultimately took her pushing for the medical staff to conduct a surgery for doctors to see that a softball-sized cyst had twisted, cut off blood flow to her fallopian tube, and caused internal bleeding in her abdomen. 
“Imagine had they sent me home with a dead ovary and fallopian tube and internal bleeding that was pulling,” she recalled to her fans. “That’s actually life-threatening, you can literally die.”
That type of medical gaslighting is one of the many reasons why Black women are three and a half times more likely to die from pregnancy-related symptoms than white women. Similarly, recently published reports from the CDC found that Black women often endure more invasive surgeries because their pain is consistently overlooked. However, Dr. Aisha Mays, a family medicine and adolescent medicine physician based in Oakland, California, explains that these risks are often amplified for young moms, who are already vulnerable due to their age. 
“This is the 10-year anniversary of Black Maternal Health Week, and even as we talk about Black maternal health disparities and Black maternal mortality rates, young mothers are still forgotten about in those conversations. They’re not even thought about,” Dr. Mays told theGrio. “It is so important for young Black mothers to be at the center of this conversation because they’re even more they’re some of the most vulnerable Black mothers in our community.” 
Dr. Mays founded the Dream Youth Clinic, an organization that provides free medical care, mental health services, and reproductive health support to young people ages 13 to 25, rooted in a reproductive justice framework. And this year, in an effort to recenter Black Maternal Health Week on young people, the organization launched the “Young Black Moms To The Front” campaign. 
“We also know that it is even more difficult for young mothers, teen mothers, early young adult mothers because of the stigma that is placed on young mothers and teen mothers during that time, it’s not the pregnancy alone,” she continued. “It is the societal stigma that is placed on young mothers that really has pushed them to the fringes, into the corners, where they’re really not even they’re not seen, they’re not regarded. And more than that, they are looked down upon and shamed for their choices.”
Dr. Mays further explained how teen mothers face higher rates of preterm birth and early delivery, which is directly linked to increased stress during pregnancy and sometimes the late implementation of prenatal care. 
“All those things can happen when stigma is placed on you,” she notes. “We also see that the health disparities for the babies born to teen moms have higher rates of being low birth weight, which can also happen when you haven’t had prenatal care as consistently. And we know that young mothers experience discrimination when they go to the doctor, even when they are trying to do the best for their health care.” 
Having worked with young mothers for nearly 20 years in her practice as a doctor and 10 years through her organization, Dr. Mays has seen both the struggles and the joys of young motherhood, which are often kept out of mainstream discourse. 
“What we’re told from society is all these negative things. Young mothers don’t finish school, but what we’re not told is that they were pushed out. We’re told that young mothers have worse birth outcomes and worse outcomes for their children, but we’re not told that they are being discriminated against when they go to see a health care provider. We’re told that young mothers have higher rates of their babies going into the foster care system, but what we’re not told is that young mothers have more incidents of having social services called on them just because they’re a teen mom, not because they’ve done anything wrong,” she explained. 
“So, the surveillance, that and that policing that happens to young mothers simply because of their age, those are the things that are causing these downstream statistics that are being reported,” she added. 
She and her colleague, Dr. Bria Peacock, delved deeper into this phenomenon in their Black Adolescent Mother (B.A.M.) study, which involved interviews with young Black mothers in California and Georgia. The study revealed that young mothers need consistent, wraparound community support, spaces like the Dream Youth Clinic’s “Young Mothers Rising” program, where they are celebrated, resourced, and empowered, not just tolerated. Similarly, this demographic needs postpartum support, which many of the study participants say was promised but not delivered to them after they gave birth. Just as there are food deliveries, mom circles, and community check-ins for adult postpartum moms, young women transitioning into motherhood need mother circles tailored to the unique experience of entering this chapter as an adolescent. 
Ultimately, Dr. Mays hopes that the next decade looks radically different for young mothers.
“What I wish to see for our 20-year [celebration of Black Maternal Health week] is young people at the center, where we are moving our young Black mothers from the shadows where they have been for decades to the center, so they know we see them. We are supporting them. We are listening to them, and we are learning from their leadership around what Black mothers need in this country,” she concluded. “[Because] having a child at a young age does not mean your life is over. It has been detrimental for young people because of how they’ve been treated for that choice. So imagine if we change the treatment from punishment to celebration, support, and resources. It would change 100%.”
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April 16, 2026
Ahead of her arrest, KaShawn Nicola Roper was on the FBI’s high priority tasks, with the federal agency initially telling the public to remain alert for the armed and dangerous woman.
A Black woman on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been found and arrested in Florida.
Ahead of her arrest, KaShawn Nicola Roper was on the FBI’s watchlist, with the federal agency telling the public to remain alert for the armed and dangerous woman. She is currently a suspect in a 2020 shooting in Kansas City, Missouri.
According to reports obtained by 11Alive, Roper allegedly fired multiple shots at a car, hitting two women. One of the shooting victims died from the gunshots.
Authorities charged Roper with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon. However, she managed to escape police custody for years until now.
In 2021, law enforcement issued a federal arrest warrant for Roper on another charge, listed as unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Investigators uncovered the 50-year-old’s ties to Georgia, encouraging the state’s residents to disclose any information if spotted.
As she remained unaccounted for, the FBI’s Most Wanted team established a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information leading to her arrest. According to her FBI Most Wanted poster, Roper used various aliases and maintained connections across multiple states.
Alongside her given name, the former fugitive also changed her middle name to Nicole or Nicola and adopted another last name, Shaw. As for where agents believed she would escape to, they listed other states, including Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, and even South Dakota.
Police eventually captured her, but in an entirely different state than expected. On April 10, FBI agents stationed in Jacksonville detained Roper in High Springs, Florida. The federal agents worked with local officers and U.S. Marshals to finally locate the wanted individual after the years-long evasion.
Now, Roper may finally face prosecution for the alleged crime, putting an end to the long-distance pursuit.
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April 16, 2026
Anyone in the U.S. who used an Android device with a cellular data plan anytime since November 12, 2017, might qualify.
People who have used an Android phone since 2017 may be eligible for a share of a $135 million Google settlement—here’s how to find out if you qualify.
Google recently settled a lawsuit alleging its Android system transmitted user data without consent, The Independent reports. While the company denied any wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $135 million.
“We are pleased to resolve this case, which mischaracterized standard industry practices that keep Android safe,” said José Castaneda, a Google spokesperson. “We’re providing additional disclosures to give people more information about how our services work.”
Roughly 100 million people could qualify for the settlement. According to the administrator, a final approval hearing is set for June 23. Eligible claimants must be U.S. residents who used an Android device with a cellular data plan anytime since November 12, 2017. Those included in a prior California case tied to a $350 million settlement are not eligible. If approved, the $135 million fund will be distributed to qualifying users after attorney fees and court costs are deducted.
Individual payouts are expected to be modest, roughly $1 to $1.50 per person and capped at $100. U.S. Android users may be eligible, with key deadlines set for May 29 (objections) and June 23 (final approval hearing). Eligible Android users have been notified by mail or email, according to the settlement administrator, with payments to be issued electronically. Individual payout amounts have not yet been determined.
Users can contact the settlement administrator or visit the official website to verify their eligibility. Those unsure of their eligibility can contact the settlement administrator at 1-844-655-4255.
The lawsuit alleges that data transfers on Google’s Android system occurred in the background without user notice—even when devices were idle. It also claims these transfers could happen over cellular networks, potentially consuming users’ data plans.
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Duchamp’s famous (and much reproduced) signed urinal, Fountain (1917)
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From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.
Three artists who in different ways connect to the Surrealist movement are the subject of this week’s podcast. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the first major US survey of the full career of Marcel Duchamp since 1973 opens this weekend, before travelling later in the year to Philadelphia. Ben Luke talks to its curators at MoMA, Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo.
Dorothea Tanning, Max in a Blue Boat (1947)
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A new book, Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World, exploring the extraordinary life and work of the Surrealist artist, is published this week by Yale University Press and Ben speaks to its author, Alyce Mahon.
Leonora Carrington, Down Below (1940)
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And this episode’s Work of the Week is Down Below (1940), a painting by another of the great women artists of Surrealism, the British Mexican painter Leonora Carrington. It was made while she was hospitalised in Santander in Spain in the early stages of the Second World War, before her pivotal journey to Latin America. The picture is part of an exhibition at the Freud Museum in London, The Symptomatic Surreal, which also features drawings from Carrington’s sketchbooks. We speak to Vanessa Boni, the curator of special projects at the museum, about the work and the show.

In this week’s episode, Ben Luke talks to the curator of a landmark new Matisse exhibition in Paris, discusses the art market in Hong Kong with our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris, and takes a closer look at a Dali painting that inspired Elsa Schiaparelli, as a show devoted to the designer opens at London’s V&A
In this week’s episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke discusses the newly-enlarged New Museum, talks to Georgina Adam about her new book on the latest generation of art collectors, and hears from the curator of a new exhibition on botany at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Ben Luke talks to Sarvy Geranpayeh about the continuing violence in the Middle East, discusses the new Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report with its author Clare McAndrew, and speaks to our reporter in Australia, Elizabeth Fortescue, about a new installation at the Sydney Biennale.

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Rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, finds himself embroiled in yet another high-profile legal battle, captivating online discussions.
Who did it, who done it, and who needs to quit it? If you missed the latest drop from DJ Misses on her “Trending on the Timeline” segment, grab your cup because the tea is piping hot. From a messy lawsuit to wild podcast rumors we break down the Kanye West drama. Stay culturally connected and get the latest updates from DJ Misses.
Kanye West finds himself back in the spotlight, and the situation is getting incredibly messy. A fresh lawsuit just hit the public records, bringing serious allegations against the artist. A man claims Ye punched him in the face at the famous Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles last year. According to the detailed breakdown from DJ Misses, the encounter escalated violently and quickly. The plaintiff states Kanye knocked him completely unconscious and continued to strike him while he was down on the ground. Now, the man is officially suing the hip-hop mogul for battery and severe emotional distress. Our community knows Ye often attracts controversy, but these physical allegations take things to a much more serious level.
The physical altercation only tells half of this complex story. The drama thickens significantly with accusations of inappropriate behavior behind the scenes. The man filing the lawsuit says Kanye accused him of acting out of line around a woman in Ye’s inner circle. Kanye did not keep these thoughts private or handle them quietly. He allegedly repeated these heavy claims later on a widely heard podcast. The plaintiff argues this public broadcast severely damaged his personal and professional reputation. DJ Misses highlighted how words can hit just as hard as physical blows. When high-profile celebrities speak on massive open platforms, the fallout ripples through the culture and impacts real lives.

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Everyone is watching closely to see how Kanye handles this mounting legal pressure. Right now, Ye remains completely silent on the matter. He has not issued any public response to the lawsuit or the specific claims made against him. Meanwhile, the plaintiff wants major financial compensation for the physical and emotional toll of the incident. We do not know the exact dollar amount he is demanding just yet, but the damages could easily reach the millions.
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Michael B. Jordan leads on-screen and behind the scenes of the new “The Thomas Crown Affair,” a cultural reimagination of a 1968 thriller.
For his first appearance since winning an Oscar for his role in “Sinners,” Michael B. Jordan attended CinemaCon to tease the next project on his roster. During the conference, Amazon MGM premiered a first look at its latest adaptation of “The Thomas Crown Affair,” a thriller first released in 1968, and again in 1999. Now, in the film set to release in March 2027, Jordan will be leading on camera and behind the scenes as director.
“I’ve been daydreaming of making this movie for years,” Jordan told attendees, per Hollywood Reporter. “I saw the ’99 Thomas Crown Affair when I was around 9 years old. It was a guy that was smart, sophisticated, and always three steps ahead.”
“After ‘Creed,’ MGM asked what I wanted to do next. I said, ‘Thomas Crown Affair. I need that,’” he told Variety in November. “It was just enough time and a gap between generations that I felt like it was almost an original story without its IP, but it’s not James Bond with crazy expectations, where no matter what I do, people are going to criticize it.”
Jordan was reportedly in London for a year filming the project, which he describes as “the second hardest thing” he’s ever done outside of “Sinners.” 
“Directing, producing, writing, acting. It was a lot,” he added. 
In addition to Jordan’s leadership, Grammy-award-winning artist Jon Batiste will be composing the film’s score. To share the news, Batiste began the CinemaCon screening with a live piano performance of “The Windmills of Your Mind,” the Academy Award-winning song featured in the score of the 1968 film. 
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This film marks Jordan’s second time in the director’s chair. In 2023, he made his directorial debut with “Creed III,” which he also starred in. Though details about the storyline of Jordan’s “Thomas Crown Affair” remain unknown, the actor and director have a history of working on reimaginings of classic projects, as seen in the “Creed” franchise, a spin-off/continuation of the “Rocky” films. And just as he did in the boxing franchise, Jordan says he brought his own flair to “The Thomas Crown Affair.”
“I didn’t want a reboot. I wanted a reimagination. The first two films were about rich white guys stealing for fun. That doesn’t land today,” Jordan previously shared. “Ours is more personal. The stakes are higher. Still got the fashion, romance.”
To help bring the sartorial vision to life, Jordan tapped award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, whom he worked with on “Sinners” and “Black Panther,” and describes as “queen.” In addition to Carter, Jordan’s “Thomas Crown Affair” features fellow Black Panther star Danai Gurira. 
“We’ve got an incredible cast — Adria [Arjona], Kenneth [Branagh], Pilou [Asbæk], Danai [Gurira],” he shared. 
And for Jordan, those details were particularly important when building out the story. 
“[Thomas Crown] didn’t just steal, he was making a statement,” he explained. “I knew I wanted to bring that all together — the style, the sophistication, the rebellion —  but also give him a real mission. So I needed somebody who could keep him on his toes. An actress who can portray strength and vulnerability. She understands his game but falls in love with him.”
Jordan’s “The Thomas Crown Affair” is slated to premiere on March 5, 2027.
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April 16, 2026
The initiative seeks to move international organizations, governments and educational institutions away from the 16th-century Mercator projection.
The government of Togo has formally petitioned the United Nations to adopt a world map that accurately reflects Africa’s true land area.
Togo officials argue that the widely used projections are geographically misleading and downplay the continent’s global significance. Togo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Dussey, confirmed that the resolution will soon be ready for a vote at the UN General Assembly in September 2026, Africa News reported. The initiative seeks to move international organizations, governments, and educational institutions away from the 16th-century Mercator projection in favor of alternatives such as the Equal Earth projection.
Foreign Minister Dussey stated that the current visual representation of the globe is a matter of scientific inaccuracy rather than preference. He noted that the size seen on most maps is geographically false and that the time has come for the international community to embrace scientific truth. The move is part of a broader “Correct the Map” campaign.
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Proponents of the change argue that map distortions are not merely academic errors but carry profound psychological and political consequences. Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter, described the persistence of the Mercator map as a long-standing misinformation campaign that has marginalized Africa’s identity and influenced global perceptions in media, policy, and education.
“Accurate representation is not just about maps — it is about agency, progress, and ensuring the world sees Africa as it truly is,” Makura told Reuters.
The African Union’s 55 member states adopted a resolution to stop using the Mercator projection within their own borders, Macao News reported. The AU has tasked Togo with leading the diplomatic effort to elevate this policy to a global standard. While the United Nations currently uses various projections, including the Robinson projection, it does not mandate a specific world map for its member states.
The Mercator projection, created in 1569 for nautical navigation, preserves the shapes of countries but significantly distorts their relative sizes. Because the map enlarges landmasses farther from the equator, regions like Greenland and North America appear disproportionately large, while the African continent appears visually shrunken. In reality, Africa covers approximately 30 million square kilometers and is 14 times the size of Greenland, yet the two often appear similar in size on standard maps. 
The upcoming September vote is being framed by African diplomats as a test of global commitment to equity and decolonization. Dussey suggested that the international response to the proposal will reveal the true intentions of world powers regarding African representation.
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In her latest work, journalist Mimi Brown shines a light on the profound impact of hardship and resilience within the Altadena community.
Award-winning journalist Mimi Brown recently joined Jasmine Sanders on the D.L. Hughley Show to discuss her new five-part docuseries podcast, “To Altadena with Love.” The series explores the severe devastation caused by the recent Los Angeles fires in the historically rich community of Altadena. During the interview, Brown highlighted the deep emotional toll of the disaster and the enduring resilience of the local residents.

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As Brown spoke with residents, she realized the fires threatened to erase a vital piece of modern history. Altadena represents a deeply connected community that historically fought against systemic barriers, such as redlining, to establish their presence and build wealth. The podcast captures firsthand accounts of the residents. It serves as a crucial audio archive that preserves the legacy of a neighborhood built on mutual love and shared struggles.
Sanders and Brown discussed the importance of humanizing the victims beyond the rapid news cycle. Walking the streets and listening to personal stories allowed Brown to connect with the emotional turmoil of the residents. She noted the pain of looking at empty lots where meaningful family landmarks once stood. The docuseries aims to cultivate compassion, ensuring the public remembers that these lives are forever changed.
The interview also shed light on the severe post-fire challenges currently facing Altadena residents. Many individuals are still waiting for insurance payouts or lack the funds necessary to rebuild their family homes. Sanders pointed out the predatory behavior of outside buyers, describing them as vultures swooping in to purchase damaged properties for significantly less than their true value. This predatory behavior further compounds the community’s emotional and financial distress.
“To Altadena with Love” is currently available on all major podcast platforms. Listeners should tune into the five-part series to hear this vital piece of modern history. By engaging with these powerful stories, the public can help ensure the Altadena community receives the resources, visibility, and compassion needed to rebuild and thrive once again.
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The Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said that Fairfax, 47, shot his wife and then himself.
Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax and his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in their home in what police are reporting as a murder-suicide, the New York Times reports.
The Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said that Fairfax, 47, shot his wife and then himself.
Fairfax, a Democrat, served as the lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022, serving under former Governor Ralph Northam. He notably faced accusations of sexual assault by two women in 2019, dating back to 2000. The accusations prompted calls for his resignation; however, Fairfax denied the allegations and finished out his term.
Fairfax went on to run for governor in 2021, but lost the Democratic primary to former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
According to court documents filed in the Fairfax County Courthouse, Justin and Cerina Fairfax were in the middle of divorce proceedings. Cerina Fairfax filed for divorce in 2025, citing that the couple had separated in 2024. Justin Fairfax claimed his wife did not express her intent to permanently separate from him when she left.
The judge in the case, David Oblon, ruled in favor of Justin Fairfax, ordering that Cerina Fairfax “failed to plead her intent.”
Police Chief Davis acknowledged that the Fairfaxes were involved in an ongoing dispute as part of a “complicated or messy divorce.” He said police determined the nature of the murder-suicide through the use of cameras in the home, which were installed as a part of their divorce proceedings.
The couple’s two teenage children were inside the home at the time of the shootings, Davis said. Their son placed the 911 call.
“So tragic for the children to lose both parents, extra tragic for them to actually be in the home when it occurred,” Davis said. “Certainly a fall from grace for a relatively high-profile family that seemingly had a lot of things going in their favor.”
After serving as lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax returned to practice law. Dr. Cerina Fairfax, a graduate of Duke University, worked as a dentist at her own private practice.

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Erica Jimenez is claiming racial discrimination after being denied access to a California Black infant program.

A woman described in reports as white and or Latina was denied acceptance into a Black infant health program in Pasadena, California, is suing the program on the grounds of racial discrimination. Yes, you read that correctly.
Erica Jimenez, 33, filed a federal class action lawsuit on Thursday, April 2, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against the Pasadena Public Health Department and its Director of Public Health, Manuel Carmona, over her rejection from its Black Infant Health Program.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the California Department of Public Health are also named as defendants.
Speaking to Pasadena Now, Pasadena Chief Communications Officer Lisa Derderian said, “We have been served and are reviewing the lawsuit.”
According to her attorneys at the Pacific Legal Foundation, Jimenez alleges that weeks before her due date, she was informed she was not eligible for the program because she did not meet the racial requirement. She gave birth to her first child, a baby boy, in mid-March.
In the lawsuit, she further alleges that the Black Infant Health (BIH) program, which bases enrollment on race and the age of the infant, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“California’s program treats race as a stand-in for need — assuming that only mothers of one race deserve or require the help this program offers,” Andrew Quinio, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a release. “Drawing a line around a public benefit program and saying only certain races may enter is precisely the kind of discrimination the Equal Protection Clause forbids.”
However, that isn’t exactly the case here. The Black Infant Health program, which serves women who are Black (or carrying a future Black child) and pregnant or up to six months postpartum, was established in 1989 to address the disproportionately high rate of infant mortality among Black families, and more than 30 years later, as Black infants continue to have the highest rates of mortality, low birth weight, and prematurity of any group in this country, it remains as necessary as ever.
“The BIH Program focuses exclusively on empowering Black/African American women by connecting them with the vital care and support needed to promote healthy behaviors during pregnancy and continuing after her baby is born,” reads the program’s official site.
Presently, Black babies have a mortality rate of 10.93 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The odds of survival and long-term health for Black infants can be shaped by systemic barriers that can begin in the womb, including unequal access to quality prenatal care, higher rates of being dismissed or undertreated by medical providers, chronic stress tied to racism, and environmental conditions that impact maternal health. Programs like this are designed to close those gaps and give Black infants equal footing, not a leg up.
The program is funded in part through federal maternal and child health funding, and for the 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 fiscal years, the California Department of Public Health allocated more than $5.5 million to Los Angeles County for related services, including roughly $902,405 in federal Title V Maternal and Child Health block grant funds, according to the complaint.
In the release from Jimenez’s attorneys, they noted that the program operates with no income requirement, but research has consistently shown that income alone does not account for the disparities in outcomes for Black mothers and infants. Systemic racism does.
The lawsuit asks the court to end the program’s racial eligibility requirements and open enrollment to all mothers in need.
“A victory would ensure that California’s maternal support resources are distributed based on need — not race,” they wrote.
What the suit fails to address is that this program exists to ensure the very thing they claim it does not, which is why this lawsuit is hard to ignore as an isolated incident. Since Donald Trump took office again in 2025 and began dismantling diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across the federal government, there has been a ripple effect, with DEI rolled back across corporations, schools, and public institutions, and has even included white Americans filing lawsuits to either end or gain access to programs originally designed to support marginalized communities, including Black Americans.
This has included the U.S. Department of Education moving to roll back equity-focused guidance and programs that supported Black students and the cancellation of a $300 million federal grant program specifically for Black farmers and other underserved producers. Even before 2025, legal attacks a year prior forced the Fearless Fund to end its $20,000 grant program for Black women entrepreneurs, after a lawsuit filed in August 2023 led to the program being blocked in June 2024 and shut down in September 2024. Student organizations and scholarships centered on Black identity have also increasingly come under attack in this current new reality.
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Opening day of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art Photo: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias, courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art
The Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) will return this autumn for its fourth iteration, Things Fall Apart (26 September-20 December), with works by 30 artists and collectives from around the world—17 of them new commissions. And for the first time this year, the biennial is expanding beyond Toronto.
Among the artists whose work will be featured this year are Kent Monkman, Rebecca Belmore, Bonnie Devine, Dawoud Bey, Coco Fusco, Nani Chacon, Julien Creuzet, Brendan Fernandes, Dala Nasser, Antonio Obá, Solange Pessoa, Dawit L. Petros and Charisse Pearlina Weston.
“We are living in a moment of intense rupture, and this title encompasses both the historical usage of this phrase and the contemporary moment,” Allison Glenn, the biennial’s curator, tells The Art Newspaper, “learning from artists who explore rupture as an ontological tool, or way of understanding. Many of them are making work at an extremely difficult time, during wars and escalating conflicts in their home countries, including Lebanon and Iran.”
Glenn hails from Detroit, only a couple hours’ drive west of Toronto across the US border. The two cities are linked in many ways, perhaps most notably by their location on the Great Lakes. Detroit is close to Lake Erie, and Toronto sits on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. As a result, water once again figures prominently in the biennial.
Glenn calls the biennial “an invitation to view the Great Lakes, and global waterways, as a confluence”. She says she was initially inspired by the Great Loop—a 6,000-mile system of waterways that encircles the eastern portion of the US and part of Canada via the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, through the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic coast.
Opening day of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art Photo: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias, courtesy the Toronto Biennial of Art
“Growing up in nearby Detroit deeply informed my understanding of how water, as both a physical resource and a historical witness, connects distant geographies through shared, fluid systems,” she adds, noting that the biennial has sought to expand its international footprint via “a cohort of artists and collaborators whose work is profoundly site-responsive, connecting to histories and moments of rupture across vast waterways”.
This marks the first year TBA will extend beyond the Greater Toronto Area, which itself is quite expansive. “We are proud to facilitate dialogue at a time when so much feels uncertain,” TBA director Patrizia Libralato said in a statement, “reaffirming our shared commitment to access, cultural vitality and a recognition that contemporary art is not peripheral to public life but central to it.”
As in the past, the bulk of TBA will take place at cultural institutions, public spaces and non-traditional sites throughout Toronto. The main exhibition will be at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, with programming also scheduled for the Royal Ontario Museum, Aga Khan Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario, among many other spaces. Even the Toronto Pearson Airport will take part, as will Scarborough Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship dating from 1979.
Beyond Toronto, programming partners include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Saskatoon’s Remai Modern, the University of Victoria and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Across the border in the US, Alaska’s Anchorage Museum is also taking part. And in New York City, Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment programme will turn the famed tourist spot into a splashy, open-air showcase for TBA artists every evening.
“We are still a young biennial but came out of the gates in 2019 very strong with worldwide attention for the model we created,” Libralato says. “We could never be a Venice, but we can strive to keep leading something important and impactful in Toronto that continues to grow its reach while staying rooted in local contexts.” (She does note, however, that five of the 2026 TBA participants are involved in this year’s Venice Biennale.)
The biennial’s third edition, organised by co-curators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López under the theme “Precarious Joys”, spans artist-run spaces, major museums and the airport
The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community ovens where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020
Among the highlights of the city-wide exhibition is a “panoramic pantomime” of Cook’s Pacific expeditions by the New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana

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