Oscar Holland, CNN Two years after promising to reexamine how it “portrays the American dream” amid the Black Lives Matter movement, Ralph Lauren is launching a collection inspired by the country’s historically Black colleges. Created in collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges in Atlanta, Georgia, the range of outerwear, knitwear, suits and dresses was based on
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Jessie Yeung, CNN and Junko Ogura, CNN For decades, being a student in Tokyo meant you had to look a certain way. Under the public school system’s dress code, all students had to dye their hair black, certain hairstyles were prohibited and even their underwear had to be a designated color. But these rules, which
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By Lilit Marcus and Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN When ice cream maker Adrienne Borlongan first experimented with a White Rabbit flavor, she thought it tasted like “cheap vanilla.” A few weeks after adding it to the rotating lineup at her Los Angeles shop, Wanderlust Creamery, visitors were about as meh on it as she was.
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By Marianne Garvey and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Anna Sorokin, the fake German heiress Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” is based on, remains in Immigration and Enforcement custody, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday. Her attorney had reportedly feared her deportation when he couldn’t reach her on Monday. Sorokin, 31, has been in ICE custody at
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Francesca Street, CNN Face coverings have become a staple of air travel over the past couple years. For some passengers, they’ve proven divisive — mask non-compliance has been blamed for the majority of US disruptive inflight incidents so far in 2022. Now they’re starting to vanish from the skies altogether. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN The Orange County Sheriff’s Office issued its final report into the death of Bob Saget on Tuesday and said it will comply with a court-ordered permanent injunction blocking the release of additional details of the comedian’s untimely death. “Yesterday, a court order was entered prohibiting the release of certain materials gathered
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Kamala Khan’s Ms. Marvel, a beloved recent addition to the superhero comic canon, is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) this summer. And based on the trailer for her new self-titled Disney+ series, she’s every bit as endearing and relatable as her comic iteration. The new trailer for “Ms. Marvel,” dotted
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Oscar Holland, CNN When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a carpentry scholarship with a dream of returning home one day to build the classrooms
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Evan Rachel Wood delves deeply into allegations of domestic abuse against former boyfriend Marilyn Manson in “Phoenix Rising,” a detailed chronicle of the “Westworld” star’s evolution from acting to activism. Yet an equally sobering aspect of this two-part HBO documentary involves Wood’s upbringing in Hollywood, and her memories of being
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sandra Bullock has a new movie coming out, but she’s planning on stepping back from acting. While promoting her film “Lost City,” which costars Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt, Bullock told “Entertainment Tonight” she’s not sure how long of a break she’ll be taking. But she said she does know
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN “We really didn’t intend selling them,” says Kevin Regan over the phone from the northwest of Ireland. Converting a slice of airplane into a sleek and durable home office had been a personal project in 2021, but after his sister-in-law put photos of the cabin on social media, requests rolled in
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Stephy Chung, CNN Contributors: Dan Hodge, CNN and Momo Moussa, CNN Stephen Wong openly describes himself as “greedy.” The landscape painter is referring to his appetite for absorbing as much scenery as possible during long and sometimes arduous hikes, which see him filling sketchbooks with impressions before translating them into sumptuous paintings. Hong Kong, the
Continue Reading Stephy Chung, CNN Contributors: Dan Hodge, CNN and Momo Moussa, CNN Stephen Wong openly describes himself as “greedy.” The landscape painter is referring to his appetite for absorbing as much scenery as possible during long and sometimes arduous hikes, which see him filling sketchbooks with impressions before translating them into sumptuous paintings. Hong Kong, the
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By Theresa Waldrop, Amanda Watts and Amanda Musa, CNN Workers on Monday removed what is thought to be the last public Confederate statue in Maryland other than those on battlefields or in cemeteries. The 13-foot tall copper statue of a boy holding a Confederate flag stood on the lawn of the Talbot County courthouse in
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Director Jane Campion has apologized to tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, calling a comment she made during her acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Critics Choice Awards “thoughtless.” The social media ire directed toward Campion over her speech for best director stemmed from one particular moment that came after she acknowledged
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By Joe Sutton, Danielle Hackett, Scott Glover and Sandra Gonzalez, CNN A Florida judge on Monday blocked the release of certain records related to the death investigation of actor and comedian Bob Saget. According to court minutes obtained by CNN affiliate WKMG, Ninth Judicial Circuit Judge Vincent Chiu granted the Saget family’s petition for the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN The storyline of “The Gilded Age” begins less than 20 years after slavery was abolished in the US, and so the creative forces behind the historical series would have been well within their rights to feature a Black family struggling post Reconstruction. But, instead, there is the well-to-do Scott family,
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Dolly Parton, one of popular music’s most beloved stars, is taking herself out of the running for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 2022 class of inductees. In a statement shared to her social media accounts, the country chanteuse said that while she was “extremely flattered and grateful” for the
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN The Rolling Stones are still rocking hard. The legendary group announced a European tour, called “Sixty,” which will hit Madrid; Munich, Germany; Liverpool, UK; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Bern, Switzerland; Milan, Italy; London; Brussels, Belgium; Vienna, Austria; Lyon, France; Paris; Gelsenkirchen, Germany; and Stockholm, Sweden. The band will perform 14 shows in all
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By Casey Barber, CNN March 14 is Pi Day in honor of the first three digits of the mathematical constant Ï€ (3.1415…). But it’s also a flimsy, yet delicious, excuse to celebrate an enduring culinary concept: the many edible varieties of pie around the world. Classic American apple and cherry varieties might be the first
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