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Morgan Freeman turned 89 in June. Three months later, he walked onto ESPN’s College GameDay set in Oxford, Mississippi, to predict the outcome of the Ole Miss–LSU game. The appearance did what public...
At an Ocean Springs High School football game this fall, Elmore Wonsley Jr. walked onto the field with his brother’s name written beneath his eyes. Nolan Wells should have been there too. The...
Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton reached Arthur Ashe Stadium through very different parts of American tennis. Their semifinal guarantees a breakthrough not seen in more than five decades. At 3:33 on...
Jaylen Brown agreed to the richest contract in NBA history when somebody asked what he planned to do with the money. The five-year extension, signed with the Boston Celtics in July 2023, was worth...
The viral clip isn’t really about whether Raven Baxter was Black. What it exposes is a harder disagreement over who gets to define what a character means culturally — the performer, the script...
For years, Victoria Monét made her living from songs that became famous in other people’s voices. Ariana Grande recorded several of them: “thank u, next,” “7 rings,”...
Jharrel Jerome arrived at his audition for When They See Us expecting to read Korey Wise at 16. Partway through, Ava DuVernay asked him to try the adult scenes. The request had not been mentioned...
Somebody asked Coco Jones, in 2020, what happened to her career. Not gently either — it was one of those comments that’s blunt because the person genuinely doesn’t know, not because...
John Celestand won an NBA championship, but he didn’t spend the rest of his life coasting on it. He didn’t lock himself into a forever career in front of the camera, either. After nearly a...