Caroline Radnofsky

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Bracey Harris |Caroline Radnofsky

May 25, 2025, 6:00 AM EDTWhen Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt a surge of energy in her body as she recognized why the name was so familiar. Her father’s family traces its roots to White Castle, where the plantation is based, and she believes some of her ancestors were enslaved there.  “It’s personal for me,” Thompson said. “There’s literally a heat I feel.” She wasn’t the only one with a strong reaction.

2 weeks ago | today.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Jay Blackman |Meriam Bouarrouj |Caroline Radnofsky

A small plane crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood on Thursday morning, killing multiple individuals on the plane, officials confirmed. Addressing reporters at the site of the crash, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Assistant Chief Dan Eddy said that the plane struck about 15 homes, causing multiple homes and cars to catch fire. “I just walked it myself, and down the street itself, it looks like something from a movie,” Eddy said Thursday morning.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Nollaig O'Connor |Dennis Romero |Austin Mullen |Caroline Radnofsky

Video taken at a Minnesota public park this week shows a white woman apparently admitting she used a racist slur against a Black youth she accused of taking an item that belongs to her child. The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, said in an interview Friday that the 5-year-old child was called the N-word by the woman Monday. "The Rochester Police Department is aware of the video that was posted on social media and has received multiple calls related to it," it said Friday.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Elizabeth Chuck |Caroline Radnofsky

Millennials are worried they are about to experience a “once-in-a-lifetime” recession. Again.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Caroline Radnofsky

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have some of the internet’s most voracious readers worried: the price of books and access to them could be changed significantly. Members of BookTok, TikTok’s passionate community of readers, have expressed dismay at the possibility of book prices increasing, as well as the news that some international booksellers were re-evaluating their policies on selling to the United States.