NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about the film and TV of a decade ago as part of a Black History Month series about the year 2016. We're continuing our Black History Month series, ...

When Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly in the spring of that same year, its shelf life wasn’t contingent upon its ability to penetrate a constantly shifting algorithm. “Alright” emerged as ...

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VSCO filters, Kylie lip kits and the summer of Pokemon Go. The year 2016 is making a comeback in 2026 as people flood Instagram with throwback posts reminiscing about what they viewed as an iconic ...

Measles was eradicated in the Americas, Beyoncé made “Lemonade” and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to Pokémon Go to the polls. Remember 2016? A decade on ...

If 2026 is the new 2016, the entertainment industry will need to try to emulate the success of these projects that dominated the box office, snatched Emmys and Oscars and have remained touchstones of ...

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 ...

A viral social media trend has people digging through their camera rolls, hoping to find the picture (or pictures) that best capture what their lives were like a decade ago. Snapchat filters, chokers ...

The year was 2016, and, man, was there a lot going on at the time. Donald Trump was entering his first term as President of the U.S. "Deadpool" released and became the highest grossing R-rated movie. ...

Social media users are striving for a 2016 resurgence, ten years later Tabitha Parent is a writer at PEOPLE covering entertainment and culture. She joined PEOPLE in 2024. Her work has previously ...

Well, it’s the start of a brand-new year. But instead of planning for the future and looking ahead, all anyone seems to want to do is to go back. Thanks to a new TikTok hazy purple-blue filter ...