Charles Pulliam-Moore

It's that time around Christmas, when all we can see
is the same set of specials on network TV.
There's Frosty, and Charlie, and Ralphie, and Kevin
But not too much brown in this mostly white canon.

Oh, is there a famous South Asian Kriss Kringle?
A ...

Around this time every year, retailers gird their loins and prepare to slash prices for the holiday shopping season. For many stores, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are opportunities to clear old stock (at a mild loss) and trigger a surge of spending that carries on well into December. Deals ...

If you're an Android user, there's a chance that earlier this week your phone or tablet alerted you about a new update to its operating system. Yearly system updates are a part of the modern smartphone experience, and, like clockwork, Apple and Google typically issue them every fall.

The newest ...

Last month Marvel Studios announced the roster for some upcoming features. In addition to Ant-Man and a female-led Captain Marvel film, Marvel's Kevin Feige confirmed that on November 3, 2017, the studio planned to release one of its longest-rumored projects: The Black Panther.

We in the nerdier parts of ...

Several of this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the national government gives to civilians, are people of color. They include recording star Stevie Wonder and the late Alvin Ailey, legendary choreographer and founder of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.

Still, many of the ...

Every time you type on your cellphone's keyboard, you're punching in tiny bits of Unicode, a universal standard for creating text, numbers and emoji. Emoji, taken from the Japanese words 絵 "e" (picture) 文 "mo" (writing) 字 "ji" (character), are pictorial symbols used to communicate simple ...

People hate passwords almost as much as they hate being hacked. The problem with the traditional password is twofold: To be useful, they have to be complex and difficult to guess. And passwords become less secure the more often you use them.

Services like LastPass and 1Password will ...

In her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, Allyson Hobbs delves into the personal histories of light-skinned African-Americans who, because of their fair complexions and social circumstance, were able to "pass" as white. Code Switch's Karen Grigsby Bates spoke with Hobbs, who explained that, ...

The families of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot last month by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner, who died in July after being placed in a chokehold by an officer in New York, called on the Justice Department to take the lead in the investigations ...

Jonathan Rapping, a lawyer and champion of legal defense by training, was named as one of this year's MacArthur Fellows, a class of 21 professionals doing innovative work across various fields including filmmaking, physics, and poetry. In 2007 Rapping and his wife Iham Askia, a former schoolteacher, founded the Southern ...