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Kumail Nanjiani, pictured here in 2019, is a longtime friend of Pop Culture Happy Hour. He recently joined the panel for a virtual 10th birthday party. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for THR hide caption
Kumail Nanjiani And A 10th Birthday Pop Culture Quiz
The fun of Fall Guys comes in watching its little jelly bean-shaped characters getting whacked around goofy obstacle courses. Mediatonic hide caption
An attorney for R. Kelly, seen in May 2019, said his client "had nothing to do with any of these alleged acts by those charged." Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A man walks past a mural of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. in London. Thabo Jaiyesimi/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other
Steven Garza is the underdog in the mock-race for governor in the documentary Boys State. He counts Bernie Sanders among his political heroes. Apple TV+ hide caption
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'Boys State' Helps Teens Learn How Politics Work — Perhaps A Little Too Well
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'Boys State' Helps Teens Learn How Politics Work — Perhaps A Little Too Well
When Redstone was about 30, he went to work for his father who owned a few drive-in theaters in New England. He eventually turned his father's business, National Amusements, into a national theater chain. John Blanding/Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption
Media Titan Sumner Redstone, Who Made Viacom A Global Empire, Dies At 97
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, by Marjoleine Kars The New Press hide caption
A Black Lives Matter mural, being painted on the street outside the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery on July 18, 2020 in Minneapolis. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption
New York Philharmonic first violinist Kuan Cheng Lu, playing for a socially distanced audience of two at Lincoln Center on July 31. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
During A Lonely New York Summer, Lincoln Center Brings Music To Essential Workers
Regina King (pictured right) recently received an Emmy nomination for her lead role in the limited series Watchmen. Mark Hill/HBO hide caption
Unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 9, 1930 during the Great Depression. AP hide caption
Fifty Years After Studs Terkel Published 'Hard Times' ... Here We Are Again
A 2016 photo of a sign for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Chris Weeks/Getty Images hide caption
"I've never heard any Republican officeholder speak of President Trump as if he should be president," says GOP strategist Stuart Stevens. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Veteran GOP Strategist Takes On Trump — And His Party — In 'It Was All A Lie'
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood says The Old Guard shows "the opposite side of what we all envision immortality to be." Mohammed Kamal/Netflix hide caption
'Everybody Deserves To Be Seen As A Hero,' Says 'Old Guard' Director
Author Isabel Wilkerson. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption
The Young People's Chorus of New York City, performing back in better times. Alexey Konkov/Courtesy of the artists hide caption
Is Singing Together Safe In The Era Of Coronavirus? Not Really, Experts Say
The woodsy cover image of Taylor Swift's new album Folklore evokes cottagecore. Republic Records via AP hide caption
The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above, The Thinker (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of the Musée Rodin's reopening in November 2015. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum
Not My Job: We Quiz Bryan Cranston Of 'Breaking Bad' On Braking ... Good
