LOS ANGELES -- CBS News national correspondent Michelle Miller can clearly recall what the publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune told her and other Black editorial interns on their first day at the newspaper 32 years ago.

"He said, 'You've got to put your blackness aside -- you can't be a journalist and a Black journalist," Miller, 52, said...Read more

Located in a valley at the base of three mountains in northeastern Afghanistan, U.S. Army Combat Outpost Keating was by all standards indefensible. Yet on Oct. 3, 2009, some 50 U.S. soldiers held off hundreds of enemy fighters in a 12-hour firefight that resulted in Bravo Troop 3-61 Cavalry becoming one of the most decorated units in the ...Read more

Every episode of AMC's "Mad Men" will be available to stream again later this month, including an episode featuring a character in blackface.

On Wednesday, Lionsgate released a statement explaining its decision not to pull Season 3's "My Old Kentucky Home" from the "Mad Men" catalog, despite the recent removals of blackface episodes from ...Read more

The summer of 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them sigh-inducing, but here's an immediate highlight: This will be the summer that we all (assuming we felt like shelling out $6.99 a month for Disney+) got to watch "Hamilton" in our living rooms. And not just any "Hamilton" -- this movie of the Broadway musical, directed by Thomas...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It's an opening lyric so universal, tucked in a groove so essential, that the song seems to glow as it beams from the speakers.

"My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine

Everybody loves the sunshine."

Written and performed by bandleader and vibraphonist Roy Ayers, who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of...Read more

Countless women who came of age in the '80s and '90s have memories of "The Baby-Sitters Club" books that provoke a nostalgic, pastel-hued wave of heart-eyed emojis.

Rachel Shukert, a producer and writer known for her work on "GLOW" and "Supergirl," received the first book as a birthday present. Scanning the description on the back cover, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The Made in America festival, which is has been staged on the Ben Franklin Parkway every summer since 2012, will not be happening this year. Roc Nation, Jay-Z's management company, made the announcement on Wednesday that this year's two-day Labor Day weekend festival is being called off.

The announcement came as no surprise ...Read more

When the "Hamilton" movie hits Disney+ on Friday, it will be more than just one more streaming service premiere. For many of the blockbuster stage show's devoted fans -- whether they've already seen a live performance or they've simply indulged in endless repeat listens of the bestselling cast album of all time -- it's a moment they've been ...Read more

It is intensely comforting to hear Rep. John Lewis say, "we will redeem the soul of America -- we shall overcome." It's the note on which director Dawn Porter leaves us at the end of her affectionate documentary portrait of Lewis, "John Lewis: Good Trouble." Lewis is indeed the good kind of trouble, and he's a good time too, as evidenced by the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- In Carl Reiner's final interview, the comedy legend spoke fondly of his late wife and proudly of his three children.

Reiner, who was 98, died Monday of natural causes at his Beverly Hills home. The interview, done for the Reboot-produced web series "Dispatches From Quarantine," was posted just over a week ago on the Silver Screen...Read more