Empire

Monday marked the five-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s online condemnation of a “hate crime” that never happened. On Jan. 29, 2019, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who is black and gay, made national headlines with claims a pair…

The year in “a word,” according to a Dec. 22 Financial Times article, is “The Roman mpire.” The Roman Empire also happened to tie into one of the year’s top social media trends, according to The New York Times. That’s pretty impressive,…

Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett was convicted by a jury on five counts of disorderly conduct on Thursday over staging a hate crime against himself in 2019. Smollett, 39, was indicted on six counts in 2019 after authorities…