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It's mid-September and Jermaine Jackson is winding up a grueling U.K. book tour, which has seen him spend the last four days making back-to-back television and radio appearances. Securing an interview slot has taken three days of negotiation between Jermaine, his publicist and publishing reps...

In 1991 African-American Troy Davis was convicted of the murder of a white policeman. His conviction was so dubious that in recent years it attracted the attention of Amnesty International, the NAACP, the Innocence Project, former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI. But despite global criticism and...

Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs are two writers whose names will forever be inextricably linked to one another. Alongside Jack Kerouac, they are credited as the godfathers of the "beat generation," a group of writers who radicalized American literature by tackling subjects that their elders felt improper. Ginsberg kicked...

It is almost ten years since the twin towers came down and more than five since Hunter S. Thompson took his own life but his words remain chillingly prophetic to this day.

"The towers are gone now," he wrote just hours after the first plane hit on September 11th...

It was five years ago today that twelve jurors unanimously acquitted Michael Jackson on various charges of child molestation, conspiracy and providing alcohol to a minor. It is difficult to know how history will remember the Michael Jackson trial. Perhaps as the epitome of western celebrity obsession. Perhaps as a...

Last week Michael Jackson's guitarist discredited widely reported allegations about the star's behaviour on the road. So why is the media refusing to publish her comments? British writer Charles Thomson explores media bias against black music's biggest star.

Aging glam-rocker Gene Simmons made international headlines last month when he claimed...