So you’re on a date. One person pays for dinner, maybe a show on the Strip. At night’s end, the payer might expect something in return. Is that so much different than sugar dating?

His name was Sturmann Yanghis. He was a 17-year-old South African brought by ship to the United States in 1860 with four other young men billed in the press as “wild African savages” who had “never before been brought into contact with civilization.” Each represented a different Indigenous group.

Sugaring is an umbrella term for negotiated relationships commonly held between an older partner, the sugar daddy or mommy, and a younger partner, the sugar baby. Sugar relationships require elaborate negotiations to create clearly defined boundaries and expectations, meaning that no two arrangements will look identical. For some, the relationship is focused on companionship devoid of physicality while, for others, the dynamic mirrors that of a traditional relationship, including consensual sex. Babies are compensated monetarily or with gifts, such as high-end merchandise or luxurious vacations. Where do sugar babies fit into the ever-evolving world of sex work in Las Vegas?

Four of the juveniles arrested in connection with the fatal group beating of a Rancho High School student made their initial appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court on Friday.

Four of the juveniles arrested in connection with the fatal group beating of a Rancho High School student made their initial appearance in Las Vegas Justice Court on Friday.

With the help of a Mellon Foundation grant – the first of its type in Nevada – UNLV will expand the study of race, place, and culture of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Las Vegas.

The internet has been buzzing since word of Britney Spears’ abortion hit the news cycle ahead of the release of her memoir, The Woman in Me.

Since its founding in 1801, African Americans have played an integral, if too often overlooked, role in the history of the University of South Carolina. Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry's edited volume Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2021) seeks to recover that historical legacy and reveal the many ways that African Americans have shaped the development of the university.

Patrol dogs are being used to attack prisoners in the US - leaving some scarred for life. Exclusive reporting from Insider reveals that the same people who set up these programs at US prisons went on to advise at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

When Dr. Lynn Comella joined the faculty at UNLV, her office was in a space that had once been a bedroom. “It’s funny to think about that now,” she says. It was on the second floor of Houssels House, a fascinating campus anomaly. Amid the school’s toybox of large architectural showpieces, Houssels House was once, as its name makes clear, a residence — a 1933 Tudor revival located on Sixth Street near Charleston.

When Dr. Lynn Comella joined the faculty at UNLV, her office was in a space that had once been a bedroom. “It’s funny to think about that now,” she says. It was on the second floor of Houssels House, a fascinating campus anomaly. Amid the school’s toybox of large architectural showpieces, Houssels House was once, as its name makes clear, a residence — a 1933 Tudor revival located on Sixth Street near Charleston.

Scholar Lynn Comella, who chairs UNLV’s department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, and who wrote the book “Vibrator Nation,” recently joined co-host Vogue Robinson on our podcast to discuss the state of sex shops in Sin City.