The San Diego Comic Con has quietly updated its policy to ban AI-generated art, 404 Media reports, providing a major victory to artists. The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive ...

New Yorkers are getting zapped, again. Con Ed will hike electric bills by 10.4% and inflate gas bill 15.8% – costing the average Big Apple resident an eye-watering $600 more per year by 2028. The ...

Tallahassee will host the inaugural P-Funk Festival to celebrate George Clinton's 85th birthday. The one-day event will take place on April 11 at The Phipps Farm. George Clinton and ...

It’s somewhat surprising to realize that the band Lettuce, those masters of funk and soul who combine technical wizardry on their instruments with down-home, feel-good grooves, has been around for 30 ...

Con Edison customers in Westchester County will be paying more for gas and electric service over the next three years. The state Public Service Commission on Jan. 22 approved total rate hikes of more ...

“Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music of Parliament Funkadelic" will take over the Detroit Opera House on Jan. 31. The concert will cap three days of George Clinton celebration in Detroit. Other ...

Sometimes he introduced himself as the son of infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, or claimed to be a made man in the mafia, federal prosecutors say. To many, he seemed like a charming and ...

It’s that time of year when the cold and snow and gloom have even the most die-hard Minnesotans considering getting out of town for a long weekend. For the suddenly-vulnerable Minnesota Wild, a little ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The sun is shining, the fire threat is low and for the first time in 25 years, no part of California is ...

For almost a decade, Tower of Power and Yoshi’s were linked by a near disaster that almost rewrote the combo’s history. Just before showtime on Jan. 12, 2017, the legendary East Bay funk band’s ...

1327 GMT – Concerns that foreign investors could pull out of U.S. assets and weaken the dollar look overdone for now, Societe Generale’s Kit Juckes says in a note. These worries are fueled by ...

This story originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE, on stands now. Leon Thomas has always carried himself with a quiet duality—musician and actor, dreamer and realist, ...