Lauren Jauregui is opening up about her experience on The X Factor as part of Fifth Harmony, noting it wasn't all positive."We were young adolescents thrown into the spotlight," she said during a recent interview on the Zach Sang Show. "Because remember, X Factor is not even anything but a reality show that you're on TV in front of millions off the bat, and I think we all just had our own way of processing that. And that affected the group in general. And that affected us personally. And I thin...

bell hooks, arguably one of the leading voices of Black feminism, gender and race theory, has passed away at age 69.A pioneer for intersectional and inclusive feminism, long before we could utter the phrase, hooks used her tender yet discerning voice to empower and raise the consciousness of her readers.Before a time where identity politics dominated political and social justice discourse, hooks put a name to the nuanced and intertwined oppressive forces that make up the white cis-hetero capital...

Kim Kardashian is ready to move forward with her divorce from Kanye West, as per People's sources.After recently reportedly filing to become "legally single," the SKIMS and KKW Beauty founder "is very happy and comfortable" with her new relationship status. "There is no way her marriage to Kanye will ever work. She did everything she could for her marriage to work. She is ready to move on," the insider says. "She considers herself single. She focuses on her kids and work. She has so many things...

A Seoul-based NGO has reported that North Korean citizens are being executed for watching K-pop music videos produced in South Korea.According to a report by the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), seven individuals were killed for either watching or distributing content under the country's leader Kim Jong-un. The information is based on a series of interviews with 683 North Korean defectors who have helped pinpoint locations where people are killed and buried after public executions. "Th...