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I’d seen rich and poor America before, of course: the endless suburban wealth in places such as Atlanta, Georgia, and Austin, Texas, as well as the deprivation of Clarksdale, Mississippi. But the contrast between deindustrialized Youngstown, Ohio and reimagined Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just an hour apart, told the story of America’s …

BET’s Madison Gray is covering all the action live from the debate floor in Charleston, South Carolina. Follow the live coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET on all CBS stations and BET.  ___________________________________________________________ The End…For Now Charleston, SC 7:06 PT/ 10:06 PM Thanks for joining us and stay with BET.com for more …

Some Harvard University students have filed a lawsuit against the Ivy League, accusing the institution of benefiting from company investments in the prison system. Last week the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign filed a lawsuit against Harvard at the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts for their role in profiting from prison …

Sterling K. Brown in This Is UsPhoto: Ron Batzdorff (Courtesy of NBC) Just when I thought This Is Us had completely wrecked me, its beautiful emotional terror has found another hidden ventricle in my heart. As soon as I saw the title of Episode 415, “Clouds,” I knew I was …

It seems that some users even come to Downdetector to check on the status of specific Tumblr blogs, such as a confused Taylor Swift fan who wrote, “Taylor’s Tumblr is down?? WTF?? WHAT IS HAPPENING???” (Another commenter did pop in to explain that all of Tumblr was down, not just …

Vanessa Bryant has filed a  wrongful death lawsuit against the owner of the helicopter company in the crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant and 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant.  According to the Los Angeles Times, the complaint was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Fillmore-based Island Express Holding …

Interested in dining at a black-owned restaurant in your city? There’s an app for that. New York-based couple and entrepreneurs, Anthony and Janique Edwards, were tired of struggling to find black-owned eateries, so they created an app that would solve that problem. EatOkra is a new app that connects users …

Kiana Randolph’s son was injured during an alleged altercation with a teacher and had to be airlifted to a hospital. Screenshot: KTRK A mother in Houston received a phone call from her son’s school saying he had been injured in an altercation. When she arrived at the school, her son …

A compromise bill might end up looking a lot like Buttigieg’s or Warren’s public-option proposals. And even though that idea repulses some on the left, most of the Sanders devotees I spoke with said they would see a public option as a major victory. “I understand if Bernie is the …

Philipp Plein’s Kobe Bryant tribute at Milan Fashion Week, happening right now, was a very memorable one. The runway show on Saturday (February 22) concluded in grand fashion with a nod to the Los Angeles Lakers legend, who, along with his daughter Gianna and seven other people, tragically passed away …