Culture

Now that we’re six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us think of wearing a mask in the same vein as wallets or cell phones or keys: as a necessity anytime you go out. One group, however, does not appear to view masks in the same way: police officers, …

MTV and Logo have teamed with the non-profit organization Trans Lifeline for a campaign to ensure that transgender youth update their government IDs properly ahead of Election Day. As part of the campaign, Kim Petras narrates a short that follows three transgender and non-binary young people — Coral, Owen and …

Dr. Chiti Parikh is the co-director of Integrative Health at Weill Cornell Medicine. In early March, as the coronavirus outbreak was poised to hit New York City, she volunteered to work in the emergency roomto help care for an increasing number of patients arriving in the ER with symptoms of …

Patrisse Cullors can’t quite remember if she was six or seven when her home was raided by police. “We were children. My mom was young. I just remember them having no care in how they treated us,” says Cullors, who grew up with a single mom in Van Nuys, California, …

The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has erupted in protests across the country, unleashing demonstrations against police brutality in all 50 states and in several cities internationally. In addition to the protests and calls for police reform, the public has honored Floyd in memorial services taking place in …

Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis Police officer who knelt on George Floyd‘s neck before his death, has been the subject of numerous police-conduct complaints, NBC News reports. Chauvin joined the Minneapolis Police Academy in 2001 and has been named in at least 12 complaints, which cover use-of-force incidents as well as …

The United Nations Human Rights group will launch this year’s Call for Code campaign on May 27th as part of the organization’s annual call for new tech solutions to global issues. The focus of the 2020 campaign will be on the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, …

Rolling Stone and our parent company, Penske Media Corporation, have launched “Hail the Heroes,” a thank you initiative to raise funds for Team Rubicon and their efforts around the COVID-19 crisis. Leaders from across PMC’s portfolio of media brands have joined together with luminaries in the entertainment, fashion, beauty, sports, …

For the first time in its long history, New York City is silent. Fear is palpable in the air. You see it in the eyes of the workers in the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the corner deli. These are almost all people of color. They tell you they are …

A quick skim of writers’ Twitter feeds (including, uh, my own) reveals they can be a self-aggrandizing lot. Not Robert Kolker — though a bit of ego would be justified. Kolker’s first book, Lost Girls, the story of a still-at-large serial killer targeting call girls on Long Island, was acclaimed …