February 10-15 is the traditional peak of activity on Who2’s Black History Month Biographies page. (Have you written your paper yet?) This year, as in years past, former President Barack Obama is our ...

Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It’s about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn’t know that nouvelle vague is ...

[Editor’s note: Pope Francis I has died, just one day after greeting the usual Easter crowds in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square. He was 88. No cause of death has yet been released, although he had ...

President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100, at his home in Plains, Georgia. If you didn’t like and admire this excellent public servant, have your heart examined. He did his best for America before, ...

So now it comes out that the ‘S’ in the name of Harry S. Truman actually did have a meaning. For years we’ve heard people say that the S “doesn’t stand for anything” and that it was “just an initial.” ...

A few nights ago I decided on a whim to look for any Humphrey Bogart film I’d never seen. I landed on Sahara, a 1943 war film that was Bogart’s next flick after Casablanca. (“Bogey + North Africa, ...

“Faced with a litany of criminal charges, Donald Trump on Sunday told a campaign rally in Iowa that he would prefer to die by electrocution rather than be eaten by a shark if he ever found himself on ...

Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by Black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha. As scholars of history, demographics and economics, we found ...

A lot of Avatar 2 tweets from 2022 are looking not so fresh these days. People were piling on director James Cameron. Reviewers called the film a major disappointment and dead in the water. The ...

Hello, friends of Who2! Fritz Holznagel here, co-founder (with Paul Hehn) of Who2. I’ve taken a new side gig as the quizmaster of The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking ...

Actress Anne Heche has died, a week after her car crashed into a Los Angeles house and burst into flames. TMZ reports that a representative for Heche’s family said that the actress is now brain dead, ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “couldn’t even get out ...