A Texas elementary school art teacher who was placed on administrative leave after showing her students a picture of her fiancée has reached a $100,000 settlement after a judge ruled that her suspension was unconstitutional. "The agreements the district and I made in this settlement are a positive first step in making things better for gay employees, gay students and gay families in Mansfield," the teacher, Stacy Bailey, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. The Mansfield Independent School District...

Throw on some sweatpants, eat a tub of ice cream, queue up a “chick flick” and cry. That’s the stereotype of post-breakup women pop culture has been peddling for decades, with its sole alternative being the image of girl who’s hellbent on revenge, keying her ex’s car and slashing his tires. Halima Boutaleb fit neither of these archetypes, however. Last May, after ending an on-and-off again relationship she described as “toxic,” the 24-year-old came across an Instagram post with a simple...

The NFL released a public service announcement honoring the life of Botham Jean Wednesday ahead of the Super Bowl. Jean, an unarmed black man was shot in his own apartment in 2018 by Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who was also Jean's neighbor. Guyger, who lived on the floor below Jean and is white, testified that she had mistakenly entered Jean's apartment, thought Jean was a burglar and shot him in the chest. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison...

If you didn't get Old Bay's latest product while it was hot, you'll have to wait a bit longer. McCormick announced Wednesday that a limited edition hot sauce version of its famous seasoning sold out in less than an hour. "We have fans that get Old Bay tattooed on their body and have Old Bay-themed weddings, so in hindsight, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the new sauce would sell out so quickly," Laurie Harrsen, the senior director of public relations and consumer communications,...

The leaders of #DignidadLiteraria, a movement that calls for social media and in-person actions to share Latino stories, led by the initial and most vocal critics of Jeanine Cummins' "American Dirt," met the publisher of the novel Monday in New York City, which they say resulted in a "clear victory for nuestra gente (our people)." "We came to the table with some specific ideas on how to build in greater representation in Macmillan, both in terms of titles and in terms of the actual editorial...